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Long Term Effects of Ritalin in Treating ADHD

In six pages this paper discusses Attention Deficit Disorder and the popular treatment choice of Ritalin in a consideration of eff...

Provisions in Education for Adolescents with ADHD, Asperger's, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1998). This is enshrined in both political rhetoric and policies and papers such as the policy documents Excellence in Schools and...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...

ADHD and ADD and School Compulsory Medication

conspiracy to boost the sales of Ritalin (Lan, 2001). The case, Hernandez v. Ciba Geigy alleges that that the APA colluded with th...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

ADHD

In five pages this paper examines Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder according to DSM IV definition, causes, and treatment o...

ADHD and Ritalin Treatment

In twelve pages this paper discusses Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an assessment of Ritalin's treatment effectivenes...

Children with ADHD and Ritalin Effects Research Proposal

measures of controlling the effects of ADHD (Safer, Zito and Fine, 1996). The concern over the possible overuse of ritalin or eve...

ADD and ADHD from Sociological Perspectives

In forty five pages this research paper presents a sociological overview of the implications of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...

ADHD and ADD

In this paper of twelve pages the differences between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention deficit disorder are ...

Instructional Strategies and ADD/ADHD as They Relate to Student Performance and Achievement

Seven journals are cited in this paper consisting of twelve pages in order to discuss how children suffering from this condition c...

Adolescents and ADHD

This paper consists of fifteen pages and provides a process overview involving Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adolesc...

LD, ADD, and ADHD Diagnostic Issues and Assessments

In four pages these disorder types are presented in an informational overview and then their diagnostic issues are assessed with c...

ADHD Asperger's Dyslexia and Writing

a story. However, there is a limited number of words a child will be exposed to in spoken language, about 5,000 (Hill, 2009). Rare...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

Understanding ADHD

In the classroom setting, it is evident that many of these characteristics could pose significant educational challenges (Hartman,...

ADHD and Occupational Therapy

both the physiological and behavioral problems associated with the disease. There are, however, numerous questions regarding the ...

ADHD Causes and Education

were under no obligation to accept a student who brought unusual challenges. Thankfully, such troublesome ignorance has finally b...

ADHD and Children

thing that the experts can do is to state that they do know that it is biological in nature, though environment can over stimulate...

Interventions for Third Grade ADHD Student

These deficits keep intensifying as vocabulary becomes more and more difficult with each passing grade. By the time a student is a...

ADHD Children and Using Family and Group Therapies

age children, considered more than 3 million in the United States alone in the year 2001. Although the disorder has been reported ...

Alternative Therapies for ADD/ADHD

possibly over-stimulating to the developing brain (Christakis, et al, 2004). ADD/ADHD is diagnosed on the basis of reports from ...

ADHD and ADD Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

criteria which are used to determine if a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder is appropriate in a particular case. The Diagn...

Children and Causes of ADHD

a correlation of Attention Deficit Disorder with differences in thyroid hormone receptors. Researchers have found "a small subset...

Homework, Students, and ADD/ADHD

Students attempt to complete their homework in a very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Bu...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

ADD And ADHD: Caused By Society

little learners in a class. Well half or so are girls and they are ready to sit and cooperate for the most part at this age. The...