Adhd

Growing up with ADHD

|How the neurodevelopmental disorder, ADHD, is related to Neuroscience through cognition and brain development and how it affects inattention, |

|working memory and academic achievement in adolescents. |

Introduction

While pursuing my undergraduate degree and being a full-time employee at a day care facility and an after school care program, I found my niche’. Children. Not just children in general, but I realized I enjoyed working with younger children, ages 4-12. I enjoy working with children in this age group because they are so full of life and they haven’t grasped the concept of the real world. They run around without having a care in the world, they love to eat snacks, they like to stay up late to watch television on the weekends and sometimes, children in this age group have trouble following instructions and doing what is asked of them, but it is fine, isn’t it? I say yes, to a certain point. Sometimes when a child does not listen when spoken to directly, or fail to follow through on instructions and complete tasks consistently, parents tend to question, “What is going on?” Parents do what they can in an attempt to understand what is going on with their child or children. They take away certain toys or privileges as a form of punishment, they insist on their child or children to go to bed early and sometimes they just give up because they do not know what else to do. When parents are at their wits end about their child’s behavior, they seek help from the community, such as their child’s pedestrian. Parents, voice their frustrations to the pedestrian, who wants to take the child’s behavior a little further, by conducting an examination of the child. The results come in and parents realize that their child or children have been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit...