Adhd

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood brain disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity); they are often jittery, inattentive, distracting, and very smart. (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 2012). In today’s society ADHD is becoming more common than it had been forty years ago. It seems that teachers and parents are more prone to put their children on medication without knowing the side effects or the damages that certain medications can cause to a child’s body. ADHD is treatable with drugs, but it seems like a way for teachers, parents, and other caretakers to get their child to calm down without having to truly figure out a real way to treat it. People automatically think that drugs are the best way to deal with children’s ADHD problems.

A child should not receive any kind of diagnosis unless the symptoms of ADHD start early in life and it shows to be creating problems at home and in school and seems to be an ongoing basis (Staff, 1998-2015). In recent studies there shows no specific testing for children with ADHD. In order to make a diagnosis a medical exam will be done, gathering of information from the parents, and school records, interviews or questionnaires from baby sitters, coaches, and teachers, and also the ADHD rating scale will be able to help evaluate your child for this disorder (Staff, 1998-2015).

It has become more common for schools to automatically say your child needs to be put on medication. When did the school officials become doctors? Educators are not allowed to practice medicine but yet they still try to. This so called learning disorder has become a way for financially strapped schools to make ends meet (Johnson, 2000). Patti Johnson introduced a resolution to the Colorado State Board of Education entitled “Promoting the use of...