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Impact of ADHD on a Childs Schooling Paying attention, remembering to do their homework and making decisions are skills children use daily in school, but for a child with ADHD these executive functions don’t come easy for them. Research shows that the most common developmental disorder amongst school age children is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). According to the article, Increasing Prevalence of Parent-reported Attention deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder among Children, nearly one in 10 children ages 4–17 years old are diagnosed with ADHD (Visser, Bitskop, Danielson, Perou, & blumber, 2010). Children with this disorder face many challenges that affect their day to day life both socially and academically. ADHD negatively can affect a child’s social behavior, their ability to pay attention and impact their memory. “Having friends is important to children’s well-being and may be very important to their long-term development” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Children with ADHD don’t necessarily notice how their behavior affects others. They often invade personal space, blurt rude comments and play to rough which make it hard for them to keep friends. This then makes them feel as if they are “different” and can feel isolated at times. Children that have difficulty making friends might also experience anxiety or depression which highly affects their schooling because they no longer want to be at school because of what they feel around their peers. Another struggle children with ADHD experience is the ability to pay attention in school. Classrooms are filled with a variety of background noise, anything from the tapping of a pencil to a squeaking of a chair can cause a child with ADHD to lose focus. Because of this, many children have problems with schoolwork or maintaining good grades and face many challenges 1

with assignments and tests that require focus and attention or have time limits . This does not necessarily mean they lack the intelligence they just have difficulty paying attention which then leads to missing important information for an assignment, daydreaming while a teacher is lecturing or even just organizing their school work. Lastly, ADHD impacts children’s memory negatively causing them to be unsuccessful in school. “Working memory is the cognitive function that facilitates the active maintenance and manipulation of information without external stimuli for a period long enough to use this information for some purpose” ( Bigorra, A., Garolera, M., Guijarro, S., & Hervás, A., 2016). Children with ADHD have been known to have a poor working memory, especially when it comes to having to remember visual information. As a result, these student struggle in all learning areas and find it difficult to cope in the classroom, As a child, school can be challenging but for those students who struggle daily with ADHD school can me a nightmare. Overall, a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder experience many more issues with their school performance compared to their peers who don’t have ADHD. Not being able to make friendships, paying attention and remembering important things are just some of the struggles these children deal with daily. 2

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