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ADHD stands for Attentional deficit Hyperactivity disorder, it is

a neurobehavioral disorder characterized by a combination of inattentiveness,


distractibility, hyperactivity, and impulsive behaviour.
SYNTOMPS OF HYPERACTIVITY.
fidgeting with hands or feet, squirming in seat
leaving seat when remaining sitting is expected
running about or climbing excessively
difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities and often on the go
talking excessively and blurting out answers before a question is
completed
interrupting others
To fulfil a diagnosis of ADHD, each symptom must persist for six months or
more.
In Uruguay
This disorder starts interfiering on the learning and in their childs relationships
with others.
Three out of thirty children have this disorder.
The growth of positive diagnosis responds to a reality or a tendency on
teachers?
What is that make a child present this way to cope with the world?
Is there any medication to adjust the child to that? Adjust on what?
If we think in children, being impulsive, not able to draw their attention and
being restless are typical characteristics, what American psychiatrists consider
a problem are the intensity of this features.
What do we do with them?
Hypermodernity, the belief that every aspect of the human experience, can be
controlled and manipulated by humanitys ability to understand through science,
knowledge, technology and biology as lead to a world characterized by
psychiatric drugs where the syntoms a person have, have to disappear in the
blink of an eye.
Here is when the use of medication, such as Ritalin( psychotropic drug) comes,
to control symptoms and help manage behavioural and learning problems in
children.

This psychotropic drug boosts the capacity of maintaining the attention and
controlling the impulses, it diminish anxiety and disobedience sometimes is the
only thing that makes the child possible to relate socially in a adequate way.

As a future teacher
How many children are really effectively diagnosed? What happened in the
past?
Horacio Paiva apunta que el comportamiento del cerebro de los nios de 2012
es mucho ms inquieto que el de los nios de hace cuarenta aos. Hay
condiciones culturales, ambientales, tecnolgicas que lo explican. Y esto hace
que el chico tenga que trabajar con estmulos de muy alto impacto y de muy
alta duracin porque su cerebro se acostumbr a ello.
Was this a problem or is it just that it has always existed and now it has a
name?
Why are there so many children with this disorder?
A Uruguayan psychologist called Silvia Pereira states that getting childrens
attention is a challenge for teachers nowadays. It is not a matter of having a
class a theatre play or a mega show, but they really have to try to make it as
interactive and dynamic as possible and they will be really engaged with the
activities. They have to create and develop certain strategies for this new type
of students, to make them pay attention in class, keep them motivated.
Its not easy to have a student with this disorder in class, but does it really affect
our work? Or is it that we do not adapt our plans to them? They key is not to
see them as a problem
Is there anything that we can do to avoid exposing children since a so young
age to psychotropic drugs? Maybe its a hard work to do, but its worth it

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