Can you imagine the most dfficult environment for a child who had dfficulty sitting still, difficulty paying attention, and lved to talk to other children? Imgine that this child had to go nto this environment every day, and was xpected to perform successfully in this nvironment.

When you think about it, it is the clssroom setting that is this difficult stting for these kids. There are a lot of dstractions, yet they are told to sit stll, don't move, don't talk, to pay ttention to boring worksheets, and keep on tsk until the work is finished. Nne of these things come easily to Attntion Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder kids. But day by dy, off to school they go.

Many Attntion Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder kids "hit a wll" in school as the school yar progresses. Every week they just get a lttle farther and farther behind, until thy're so far behind that it's mpossible to catch up. They lose thir homework assignments, even after they hve spent hours working on them. And thy study hard for tests only to prform poorly the next day. They jst slip farther and farther behind wth each passing week.

The dsorder is most often recognized and rferred for treatment in third grade. Ths is when kids most often hit the "cademic wall." In third grade they are xpected to do more and more wrk on their own, and they are gven more homework to do as wll. We also see many referrals in sventh grade, or when the child laves Elementary School for Junior High Schol, with several classes and several tachers. Many Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder kds who found ways to compensate in Elmentary School are totally lost in Jnior High School.

How can we help these chldren to be more successful in schol? Begin by learning more about Attntion Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from the ADHD Infrmation's family of web sites. Here is one of our utstanding web sites with over 500 Classroom Interventions to help your ADD ADHD Student succeed.

The article ADHD Kids "Hitting the Wall" at School was Submitted by Douglas Cowan, Psy.D. through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Douglas Cowan, Psy.D., is a fmily therapist who has been working wth ADHD children and their families snce 1986. He is the clinical drector of the ADHD Information Library's fmily of seven web sites, including http://www.newideas.net , helping over 350,000 parents and teachers learn more about ADHD each year. Dr. Cowan also serves on the Medical Advisory Board of VAXA International of Tampa, FL., is President of the Board of Directors for KAXL 88.3 FM in central California, and is President of NewIdeas.net Incorporated.

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