Towards Helping Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to Enjoy Peaceful Schooling

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Children could learn better when they enjoy learning. This article seeks to direct attention to the importance of helping children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to enjoy schooling. Considering a dearth of documented Nigerian-based research in this area (only one), the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Office of Special Education Programs's project report titled "Teaching Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Instructional Strategies and Practices" is condered invaluabled for all stake holders in the lives of these childern, so it is adopted as the working paper for this article. The syptoms of ADHD were pointed out while the specific ways in which teachers and parents could help these group of children were discussed. Since a child with ADHD may be able to focus when he/she is receiving frequent reinforcement, the need to work with parents and the community was emphasized.
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© Kamla-Raj 2008 Stud. Home Comm. Sci., 2(1): 19-31 (2008)
Towards Helping Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) to Enjoy Peaceful Schooling
Ayoka Mopelola Olusakin, Ngozi Osarenren and Florence Obi
1. Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos,
Akoka-Lagos, Nigeria
E-mail: mopeolusakin@yahoo.com
2. Counseling Psychology at the University of Lagos, Nigeria
3. Special Education, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
KEYWORDS Helping. ADHD Children. Schooling. Enjoyment
ABSTRACT Children could learn better when they enjoy learning. This article seeks to direct attention
to the importance of helping children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to enjoy
schooling. Considering a dearth of documented Nigerian-based research in this area (only one), the
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Office of
Special Education Programs’s project report titled “Teaching Children with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder: Instructional Strategies and Practices” is condered invaluabled for all stake
holders in the lives of these childern, so it is adopted as the working paper for this article. The
syptoms of ADHD were pointed out while the specific ways in which teachers and parents could help
these group of children were discussed. Since a child with ADHD may be able to focus when he/she
is receiving frequent reinforcement, the need to work with parents and the community was emphasized.
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