Introduction
“Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not a clinically definable illness or disease. Rather, as of December 2003, ADHD is a diagnosis that is made for children and adults who display certain behaviors over an extended period of time. The most common of these behavioral criteria are inattention, hyperactivity, and marked impulsiveness.”(Web,1)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is something we have all heard a lot about, but how does it fit into education? With so much information being thrown around it can be difficult to get things straight. As far as disorders go, ADHD is very closely tangled with education. School is where ADHD separates those who are affected from those who are not, and as education is not structured to cater to a minority of students, it poses a particularly great challenge for ADHD students (as well as their teachers, parents, and peers).
Though students do spend much of their time either at school or doing work for it, it is not necessarily a natural situation for them to be in, and one in which the symptoms of ADHD are magnified. In fact, many students would not even know they had ADHD if it were not for how it affects them in school, since that is the only place it gets in the way.
Though some students with ADHD are affected outside of school, homework, and studying (i.e. driving, behavioral problems), ADHD mostly rears its ugly head when education is involved. This is true for a number of reasons, including its associations with learning (poor information processing, metacognition, as well as general academic problems like underachievement and failure to complete assignments.
Review of literature
The review of literature emphasized how ADHD is a prevalent and serious problem afflicting today’s youth. The impact of the disorder is felt far beyond the victim...................
