Children With ADHD
A Child with ADHD is hard to Grow up with and Live with Daily.
According to Carl Tishler, PhD, an adjunct association psychology professor at The Ohio State University, the rate of children on medications are high in American children than any other country in the world, the study shows, and there are no long-term data on the effects of these medications on child development. The purpose of this paper is to describe ADHD in children.
History of treatment
ADHD date to the Grecian Age. Opium used to be prescribed to colicky infants. In 1918 researchers found that after a severe outbreak of encephalitis caused problems of attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity in children who had encephalitis. Children who had brain damage differentiate …show more content…
The rate of children dropping out is around 18 percent of children who have ADHD. If a child had a problem in school with ADHD then it is more than likely to show up on the job. A child growing up with ADHD is at risk for having Antisocial Personality Disorder. I have a child with ADHD. It is a struggle everyday with her. When I first noticed something was wrong, I was going over spelling words with her and she would not sit still long enough to spell the words. She had to be moving or doing something with her hands. I talked with her father and he said he had thought the same thing but did not want to say anything. So I then talked with her pediatrician about it. She sent home a paper with me to have her teacher fill out. When I talked to her teacher about how she was in school. Her teacher said she really did not have a problem with her sitting still, may be a few times but nothing to major to worry about. I went back and told her pediatrician what the teacher and I had talked about. She is now on medication for ADHD only after school hours to help her concentrate on homework. I do not give her the medicine on weekends. That is her time to be a child and not worry about having to take medicine to calm down. She needs to be outside running around and playing with her
According to Carl Tishler, PhD, an adjunct association psychology professor at The Ohio State University, the rate of children on medications are high in American children than any other country in the world, the study shows, and there are no long-term data on the effects of these medications on child development. The purpose of this paper is to describe ADHD in children.
History of treatment
ADHD date to the Grecian Age. Opium used to be prescribed to colicky infants. In 1918 researchers found that after a severe outbreak of encephalitis caused problems of attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity in children who had encephalitis. Children who had brain damage differentiate …show more content…
The rate of children dropping out is around 18 percent of children who have ADHD. If a child had a problem in school with ADHD then it is more than likely to show up on the job. A child growing up with ADHD is at risk for having Antisocial Personality Disorder. I have a child with ADHD. It is a struggle everyday with her. When I first noticed something was wrong, I was going over spelling words with her and she would not sit still long enough to spell the words. She had to be moving or doing something with her hands. I talked with her father and he said he had thought the same thing but did not want to say anything. So I then talked with her pediatrician about it. She sent home a paper with me to have her teacher fill out. When I talked to her teacher about how she was in school. Her teacher said she really did not have a problem with her sitting still, may be a few times but nothing to major to worry about. I went back and told her pediatrician what the teacher and I had talked about. She is now on medication for ADHD only after school hours to help her concentrate on homework. I do not give her the medicine on weekends. That is her time to be a child and not worry about having to take medicine to calm down. She needs to be outside running around and playing with her