Joyce Dye ENG-105 August 16, 2015 Victoria Smith Hidden Dangers of ADHD Medications There are several health problems that can be associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medications. Before a parent should consider medication, it's important to be sure the child has gotten an accurate diagnosis from a professional who is trained and experienced in child and adolescent mental health. The most common medications given for ADHD are such as methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine
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ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AMBER BOLIN HCA/240 03/20/2016 ISMAILA RAMON ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Ever been somewhere and there’s that one child who is out of control? Bad parenting may not be the cause of the behavior. There are a lot of misconceptions about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder some believe that the child is just misbehaving and it’s a discipline issue this is caused from a lack of knowledge of the disorder. Attention Deficit
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Glennis Gilmore McCray ENG-105 April 14, 2016 Priscilla Bamba Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is defined as Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development. Merriam Webster defines medication as a substance used for medical treatment, especially a medicine or drug. Consequently psychotropic medication is defined as any medication capable
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me to the doctors multiple times to even have my hearing checked out. As I got older overtime I noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate in class, my grades began to drop because I wasn’t as focused as I use to be. ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) is a disorder that effects approximately 3% to 10% of school children and of those 60% of those will continue to have symptoms into adulthood. ADHD affects more men than women but into adulthood is begins to balance out. Most
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ADHD and the Effect of Drugs and Diet There are so many people with Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder ranging from age 3 to adult. Many believe in medicating for this disorder, and then many believe in special diet and exercise to helps treat this disorder. Depending on how severe, I believe is how the disorder should be treated. Inchildren I think they should be automatically treated with diet and exercise. ADHD is more known as the abehavioral condition. Experts believe it's
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Phonological deficits execute a notable role in theories of both dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment. Within the science on word blindness, there is a prevalent concurrence that phonological deficits are the immediate source of the reading impairment, at least for a majority of dyslexic people (Vellutino, 1979; Frith, 1985; Snowling, 2000). Even alternate theories recognize a phonological lack as a decisive negotiator between other constituent and reading impairment (Tallal, 1980; Nicolson
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In all three essays, there is the common issue of the fact that there are different problems in the school’s systems. This is an interesting topic because the common school system is supposed to prepare us for life but there are so many corruptions about what is supposed to be learned that there the students are the ones that are short changed. Such as “Project Classroom Makeover” by Cathy Davidson was about children with disabilities getting over looked just because they are different. Davidson
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How is ADHD Diagnosed? Background When ADHD was first discovered, the language used to describe the symptoms of one with ADHD was somewhat judgmental. George Still was one of these people to describe ADHD in a potentially offensive way. According to (Chandler, 2010): “George Still described 43 children who had a ‘moral defect in control.’ He continued with a rich description of over-activity, aggression, little inhibitory volition (impulsivity), and passion, but also resistance to punishment—a
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of children with ADD/ADHD are made. Over the past years, ADD/ADHD has received a lot of attention from parents, professionals, and policymakers from around the country. Now, almost everyone knows about ADD. The official name for ADD is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. The disorder name has been changed before due to scientific advances and the findings of careful field trials. Now strong evidence supporting the idea that ADHD is not one specific disorder with different variations. AD/HD
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Social Skills Children that are diagnose with ADHD typically exhibit social skills deficits, in addition to peer relationship problems. The deficiency in social skills causes, inattention and poor impulse control. Furthermore, there two main symptoms appear to produce both social performance deficits (e.g., inattention or poor listening to another child) and performance excesses (e.g., intrusiveness or often interrupting) that interfere with the normal social processes involved in stable peer relations
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