Education and Medication Considerations
True or False: You should take your medication only when taking a test at school or on days that you want to be focused.
What is false?
Assessment of students with ADHD includes procedures for evaluating social and emotional behaviors and
What are academic skills?
You may have problems finding the homework you did so you can turn it in.
What is frustration with organizational challenges?
These are the three categories of diagnostic criteria for ADHD.
What are Inattention, Hyperactivity, and Impulsivity?
What is the main treatment for ADHD?
Stimulant Medication
This type of reinforcement has been successful with children who have ADHD.
What is positive reinforcement?
This assessment involves determining the consequences, antecedents, and setting events that maintain inappropriate behaviors.
What is Functional Behavior Assessment?
You might have some trouble fitting in with friends, or your friends may get frustrated with you. You struggle with
What is social skills.
ADHD diagnosed more in boys or girls
Boys are three times more likely to receive an ADHD diagnosis than girls
True or False: A child is more than 50% likely to have ADHD if their parent does.
What is true?
All children with ADHD benefit from classrooms that have this.
What is structure?
This is an interval recording procedure used to capture a representative sample of a target behavior over a specified period of time.
What is momentary time sampling?
How has the DSM criteria for ADHD change over time?
Diagnostic criteria for ADHD has become more broad, causing more children to qualify for the diagnosis
True or false, a child who isn’t hyperactive can’t have ADHD.
What is false?
You may need one of these two things to help you succeed in school, if you have ADHD.
What is an IEP or 504 plan?
ADHD medication helps you focus and slow your brain down in order to affect what part of the brain?
What is your thinking, executive function brain? (memory and function).
The Diagnostic Assessment Scale for ADHD which evaluates inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity is appropriate for students in this age range.
What is 5-17 years old?
True or False: Wealthy people with ADHD are more likely to diagnosed, whereas poor individuals with ADHD are more likely to be medicated
False: Wealthy people are more likey to be medicated for ADHD and poor individuals are more likely to be diagnosed
This are coexisting conditions that can occur with ADHD
What are behavior or conduct problems, learning disorders, anxiety and depression
This test consists of stimuli, presented one at a time on a screen rapidly. The individual presses a button each time a certain stimuli appears.
What is Continuous Performance Test?
Stimulant ADHD medications influence the release of this neurotransmitter.
What is Dopamine?
These are three of the four components to assessing whether a student has ADHD
What are Medical Exam, Clinical Interview, Teacher/Parent Rating Scales, Behavioral Observation?
Struggling with ADHD symptoms and the negative feedback from others can cause what other common mental health issue?
What is anxiety? (or Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or mood disorders).
People with ADHD often have trouble with working memory, inner speech, and time awareness. These are all considered to be this type of function.
What is executive functioning?
what is a problem associated with over prescribing medication?
Can minimize the real struggles of children who need medication to thrive