ADHD, is it real or
just prescribed??
While talking to a friend (Bobby Mack) about ADHD, I found
that our perspective is somewhat the same.
We both feel that when children at a young age are placed on medication
for ADHD, it hold them back to allow maturity development. I feel that a child should not be tested
until the first or second grade. Over
the past years, we have seen the curriculum change throughout the grade
levels. Bobby and I feel that the curricula
are based on the European style. Testing
should be more applied science to learning styles. As educators we are taught to say that a
child has ADHD or their attention span is where it supposes to be. We are pushed
so much to and not teaching, we are shortchanging the child when it comes to
learning. Now days we teach a child to
read by memory not to read to understand what is being read. As we continued to
talk about ADHD, we come across the question if children were getting enough
exercise and if the classroom overload?
Bobby stated, “Not the lack of exercise but the lack of engagement of
materials and the terrible routines”.
In contrast to our opinion about ADHD, I found a blog about
ADHD. Here is the website http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/when-the-diagnosis-is-a-d-h-d/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0. After reading through some of the comments that
were made about the article I feel that many people have different perspective
about ADHD, some say medicate and some say do not medicate.
Bobby Mack is a motivation speaker. He is co-owner of a non-profit organization called
M-Powering Choices, Inc. “M-Powering
Choices is created to design and present programs to young men and women that
will empower them to make responsible choices in their lives. M-Powering
Choices targets all young men and women, with a special emphasis on “at-risk”
individuals, from third through twelfth grade.
The programs emphasize making responsible choices, such as dressing responsibly,
which leads to positive performance in the classroom and ultimately a
successful life” (M-Powering Choices, 2013).
Here is his website check it out its really good http://mpoweringchoices.net/index.html.
References
The New York Times Company, (2014). http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/when-the-diagnosis-is-a-d-h-d/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
