ADHD IN SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN

ADHD in School Age Children

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION3

REVIEW OF LITERATURE3

METHOD4

DISCUSSION4

CASE STUDY5

CONCLUSION8

REFERENCES10

ADHD in School Age Children

Introduction

It has been said that children with ADHD have the harder academic life due to increased dropout rates in school, have higher delinquency rates, and have the higher incarceration rate as adults than those who do than not suffer from ADHD.

Review of Literature

It has been said that children with ADHD have the harder academic life due to increased dropout rates in school, have higher delinquency rates, and have the higher incarceration rate as adults than those who do not suffer from ADHD. Is this really truth about those who suffer from ADHD or is this just story meant to scare parents of children with ADHD? At this point I stared doing some research on his condition to see if I could find any real cases and hard data to support them.

Some of problems that exist at school for children with ADHD are: that they often interrupt others, have great difficulty waiting for his/her turn in school, and often have poor organizational/study skills for their age groups. (Iliades, 2007) Regrettably some children with ADHD find it impossible to stay seated and focused in class, which causes them to throw their hands into air long before it is ever called or just simply blurting out answer. It is estimated that between 3 and 5 percent of children have ADHD; so with average Wisconsin classroom size at 25 students per class, this means that each classroom is likely to have at least one student diagnosed with this condition. According to Doctor William Dodson, Medical Director, ADHD Treatment Center, Denver, Colorado dropout rates of 50% to 63% were reported in the study of 9549 children with ADHD during the single school year. Yet in contrast only 25% of children without ADHD dropped out of school during same period of time. This means that simply having ADHD doubles your child's chances of dropping out of school. (McCallon 2000)

Method

In world today failing to graduate high school can have the tremendous effect on ones entire adult life and ability to provide for oneself. Hard truth is that average income of persons ages 18 through 65 who had not completed high school was roughly $20,100 in 2005, while, average income of persons ages 18 through 65 who completed their education with the high school diploma, was nearly $29,700. Given rising costs of living this means the more difficult outlook for those who do not graduate. (American Academy of Pediatrics 2009)

Discussion

One of more well known studies was conducted by in Utah, this survey found approximately 24% of male inmates currently being held in Federal Prison system have ADD/ADHD. Yet if you read statistics offered from ADHD Information Library numbers are even worse than Utah study. According to ADHD Information Library out of are those who were not treated for ADHD by age of 18 years of old they have the 20% of already having two arrests compared to only 3% of ...