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Article: Working with the ADHD student.(CLASSROOM CONNECTION)
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- Techniques
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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It is estimated that between three and five percent of children--or approximately two million children in the United States--have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This means that in a classroom of 25 to 30 students, it is likely that at least one will have ADHD.
Those statistics come from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH), which also points out that while a child with ADHD faces a difficult task in achieving his or her full potential, the task is not insurmountable. Since ADHD often continues into adulthood, it is important to help children learn to deal with it early on, and that takes teamwork from parents, guidance counselors, ...