In today's society it seems to many people use medication as an answer to all their problems. Even though sometimes it is very necessary, a lot of times its not. What did they do years ago when there wasn't all these medications weren't available. How did people deal with ADHD. I feel in today's society we medicate kids at to early of an age, again sometimes they may need it but other times they don't. Maybe medication is the easy way out. Maybe we need to look a little harder to try to come up with better plans or strategies to help a child with disabilities learn more efficiently.
             Here I will be talking about a six year old African-American boy named George who is very intelligent and suffers from hyperactivity or Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder (ADHD). Now the definition of ADHD is when a child exhibits developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Combined that with a six year old child and there is sure to be some difficulties in the learning environment. In George's case he would take at least two to three minutes to get started after she gave him an assignment or he might not start is assignment at all, generally being off task, he would be out of his seat, hitting and tickling his peers and talking and singing aloud. Currently, the most widely used interventions to control hyperactivity include methylphenidates and other stimulant, antidepressant, and antihypertensive drugs (Barkley, 1990; Flick, 1998).
             From what I have learned out of the readings in our text book (Exceptional Children) that once it has been established that a student's ADHD substantially limit's a major life activity such as learning it is considered a disability. And children who do suffer from ADHD are at risk for school failure. Now a days schools have increased expectations for the use of classroom interventions for students who do have a disability such as ADHD. ...