ADHD in the classroom

There is a built-in contradiction in North American education that particularly affects students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): the tendency to teach everyone as if their brains all worked the same way, when the reality is that they do not. The social crisis of the growing number of children whose educational needs the present school system simply does not meet is translated into a medical problem. Even worse is when the ADHD child is …

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