Basic Facts
History & Causes
Neurological Factors
Education & ADHD
Medication
100
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (acronym)
What are the letters A-D-H-D?
100
Neurological factors and heredity.
What are the factors believed to be the causes of ADHD?
100
MRI
What is the device used to determine ADHD?
100
The assessment that educators can use to develop and intervention that reduces undesirable behaviors or increases desired behaviors
What is Functional Behavior Assessment?
100
Medication
What is the most common method to treat ADHD?
200
The ability to focus on the relevant features of the task without being distracted by its’ irrelevant aspects.
What is Selective attention?
200
Encephalitis (1917)
What is the infection of the brain that left many children with behavioral problems?
200
Pre frontal-lobes, basal ganglia, & cerebellum
What are the areas of the brain that researches state are structurally smaller in individuals with ADHD?
200
Maintaining a tightly prescribed schedule of educational activities provides students with very little opportunity to engage in nonproductive behaviors. ADHD students may become disoriented.
What is the reason why educational programs should be highly structured for ADHD students?
200
Ritalin & Adderall (stimulate or activate neurological functioning)
What are psychostimulants?
300
Predominantly Inattentive Type, Predominantly Hyperactive-Impulsive Type, and Combined Type
What are the current types of ADHD recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
300
Strauss Syndrome.
What is the syndrome that children in the 1930s and 1940s, with high levels of distractibility and hyperactivity, were referred to as?
300
Chemicals that enable electrical impulses to travel from one neuron to another
What are neurotransmitters?
300
The two educational techniques that involve students keeping track of their own behavior and monitoring their own attention recording it on a chart are:
What are Contingency self management and Self monitoring of attention?
300
Non stimulant, acts on stabilizing the level of norepinephrine
What is Strattera?
400
Six or more; at least six months
What are the number of symptoms of inattention OR hyperactivity needed AND number of months needed to meet diagnostic criteria?
400
The person that began looking at the connections between children with cerebral palsy and inattention and hyperactivity, thus linking attention problems with learning disabilities
Who is William Cruickshank?
400
The two most likely neurotransmitters that are out of balance in persons with ADHD
What are Dopamine and norepinephrine
400
Examples of reducing stimuli in the classroom Stimulus reduction is an important educational method for students with ADHD.
What are: - headphones to reduce classroom noise for the student - a cubicle for reducing visual stimuli - Limit colorful bulleting boards - Reduce words per page and put them in big, bold colors (for early stages of reading) - Use brightly colored paper
400
Psychostimulant which activates parts of the brain responsible for behavioral inhibition, to be highly effective in increasing attention and decreasing impulsivity and hyperactivity
What is Ritalin?
500
Combined Type: 50-70%, Inattentive Type: 20-30%, Hyperactive-impulsive Type: fewer than 15%
What are the accounted percentages of all ADHD types?
500
People who preferred hyperactive child syndrome that focused on an observable behavior rather than the more unreliable diagnosis of subtle brain injury
Who are the authorities that preferred the notion of hyperactive child syndrome to minimal brain injury?
500
Globus pallidus and Caudate are two structures inside of one structure that tend to be smaller in persons with ADHD
What is the basal ganglia?
500
Examples of cognitive support for transitioning. Studies indicate that students with ADHD need support as they transition
What are: - Increase wait time for responses - Limit the number of steps to solve a problem or sequence for a procedure - Create the routine procedures for transitions - Provide visual supports for students to refer to such as check lists, rules, etc - Prepare students for the type of response that will be required when asked a question - Divide instruction into consistent, predictable sequences throughout the day
500
These (insomnia & diminished appetite) can usually be controlled if one is careful with respect to when the doses are administered.
What are ways to control most common side effects?
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