Add and Adhd

There is a growing awareness in the education community that attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) can result in significant learning problems for children with those conditions. While estimates of the prevalence of ADD vary widely, it’s believed that three to five percent of school-aged children say have significant educational problems related to this disorder.

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), also called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is a developmental disability estimated to affect between three to five percent of all children under the age of nineteen (Barkley, 1990). Students with this disorder are often inattentive, impulsive, and in some cases hyperactive. Some signs of inattentive behavior include daydreaming in class. Often the students in a classroom that were diagnosed with ADHD were seen staring out the window, or somewhere into the space of the classroom, rather than focusing on the seatwork in front of them. They were easily distracted by things going on all around them. The students with ADHD also