| -- End Ad Box ---> | | | | easy road or a difficult one. Ideally, your child will |
| Educating a child with Attention Deficit Disorder | | | | be in a school that is understanding to your |
| may not be an easy process. Although great | | | | circumstances, respects your decisions, and |
| strides have been made in recognizing the | | | | shares a team frame of mind, to ensure your |
| disorder and many school systems have | | | | child reaches their potential. Unfortunately, some |
| answered the call, many are still antiquated in their | | | | schools do not share in this openness. Smaller |
| procedural methods as well as catering to specific | | | | communities or poorer districts tend to be less |
| circumstances. | | | | accommodating to special needs children or unique |
| How ADD affects a classroom is usually seen | | | | circumstances. Hopefully, you will be blessed with |
| before diagnosis takes place. It may be seen in | | | | the first school; if you have the second, you may |
| the little girl in the corner, twirling her hair as she | | | | have a fight on your hands! |
| looks out the window, or the boy running around | | | | A child with ADD can be disruptive, difficult to |
| the other students snatching books out of their | | | | teach, and at times, impossible to control. It is for |
| hands. In many cases, it is the teacher that first | | | | this reason many schools are not cooperative. |
| recognizes an issue with inattentiveness and/or | | | | However, you have to be careful that your child |
| hyperactivity. Seeing the problem is usually | | | | is not treated substandardly. |
| considerably easier than correcting it. | | | | Some schools will immediately attempt to put a |
| Once the situation is brought to | | | | child with ADD in remedial classes, although their |
| everyone’s attention and diagnosis is | | | | intelligence level would not constitute such a |
| made, treatment begins. Whether the child is | | | | decision. In many situations, this is done to |
| medicated becomes a major aspect of how the | | | | prevent any additional time being taken away |
| next steps will go. Some schools insist that | | | | form the regular classroom; however, you do not |
| children with ADD be medicated, almost to the | | | | want your child to be categorized in negative |
| point of tyranny. Other schools, however, are | | | | manner which is not founded. |
| more open to parents’ wishes. | | | | The most important thing to keep in mind is that |
| The school your child is in will either make this an | | | | you there for your child and for their well-being. |