Teaching Children Suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity: Methods and Challenges

Academic performance is the area where children suffering from attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity have the most difficulties.These children because of having weaknesses in performing their tasks and behavioral problems and the lack of attention and concentration in academics, doing homework, Following school's rules and regulations and getting along with classmates face major difficulties. These problems will have negative effect not only on their family interaction and educational performance, but also their self assessment and self confidence to the point that they get caught in a cycle of negative interactions.Most of these children have no intelligence problems and should be placed in conventional schools and the class's environment and academic programs should be adjusted based on their needs. Since children spend a lot of time at school, it is imperative that teachers and other school's employees gain some knowledge about the peculiarities of this disorder, how to manage these children's behavior in the classroom and the methods of teaching them in order to help these children to take the most advantage in the academic setting. Because of the importance of this issue, the current research has been conducted for the purpose of presenting suitable educational approaches and methods for balancing the program with the class environment. This research is a review and its data have been gathered by using previous theoretical studies and conducted researches.