Class Reflection

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was around ten years old, but I was not informed of this until the end eleventh grade, when I accidentally stumbled upon the information. I have trouble controlling my focus and completing work in a timely manner, particularly with essays and I occasionally have trouble following along during class lessons, especially with math. I have always had high expectations for myself in school, but had difficulty producing work that displayed my mindset. This was frustrating because I spent twice as much time on homework than my classmates, but still found myself behind on assignments. I always completed my homework, however, the late penalties I often received greatly impacted my grades each year. My parents told the

As a Para, I have to take a class with our ELL students so I can interpret for them in the event they cannot understand something. Although the teacher in this specific class is a great teacher, in my opinion, his communication skills are frightening the kids. Last week the students got the results of the last test and most of the kids did not do well. His speech went on for almost twenty minutes, telling the kids how upsetting it was to have such bad scores when everything is provided to them; that they needed to pay more attention to the class and do their homework, etc.…. during this time his face turned red, and his body language became stiff. He repeated himself over and over again. It was so bad; I wanted to run out of the class

“In adults, attention deficit disorder often looks quite different than it does in children—and its symptoms are unique for each individual” (Adult ADD / ADHD). If the patients take the responsibility to do the treatment for ADHD their symptoms can be their disorder less outwardly disruptive as an adult with ADHD. Even though it the ssymptoms of this disorder may have gotten better in a way they can still be a bit as troublesome. “If you are just discovering you have adult ADD/ADHD, chances are you’ve suffered over the years for the unrecognized problem. People may have labeled you “lazy” or “stupid” because of your forgetfulness or difficulty completing tasks, and you may have begun to think of yourself in these negative terms as well” (Adult ADD / ADHD). Many people who have ADHD, find living with it very frustrating, it’s as if they are living life under control. ADHD’s symptoms takes a piece of your life it leads to no self-hope and embarrassment, when people who live their life of embarrassment and worrying about their hyper activeness disorder have to show lots of work required for deadlines. “As the demands of school, social life and responsibilities in general increase in adolescence and the number of comorbid diagnoses increase (conduct disorder, anxiety, depression, and learning problems) healthcare professionals are

I was born with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder or ADHD for short, but in all honesty, I wasn’t that self-aware of anything being wrong. Trouble began early in school, teachers who called me out were just dicks in my mind who didn’t get my sense of humor. If you were born color blind you may know something’s different, but unless you’re told something was wrong, you’d have no idea that you couldn’t see red. That’s how I felt in elementary school, being hyper and distracted was just me. Granted I was a little too much sometimes, but I really didn’t know why I was being singled out all the time. The problem was, I was hyper all the time. At home and school, it was very hard for me to calm myself down and mirror the behavior of everyone

I was recently diagnosed as an adult with ADHD. Although throughout my childhood all the symptoms presented themselves,

Prior to my formal diagnosis of ADHD, I had tremendous difficulty performing well academically. I was fine through the early grades in grammar school, and eventually hit rock bottom during my first year of junior high school. What was frustrating was the fact that I wanted to perform well academically a notion that was reinforced plenty of time by my parents, especially from my father but I would leave certain classes unsure about what material was covered and what expectations the teachers had for the students regarding homework assignments. And I could not figure out why.

Symptom is having problem with paying attention, excessive activity, and unable to control impulsive behaviors. Children who have ADHD caused impairment, and shows symptoms before 7 years old (APA, 2000). Symptoms will usually surface when they are in preschool because of having trouble in classroom and their social behavior in their school life. According to DSM-IV-TR, Inattention behavior may be present in academic, work, and social environment. People with this disorder perform their tasks carelessly, get lost, and may fail to complete given tasks (APA, 2000). They have hard time keeping their concentrating on one activity or task, and are easily distracted by noise or stimuli that others can ignore easily. They shift their attention rapidly and are very forgetful in daily tasks, for example forgetting their homework. They usually have strong distaste

Based on my classroom learning experience and the interacting within the Deaf community, I have several point to bring to attention that will elaborate my thoughts on beneficial attributes of an ASL class personally and professionally. This class actually has become one of the most challenging, yet satisfying classes I have every taken in my life. The area which is engaged the least, producing ASL, is to me the most beneficial. This area of the class is the heart-and-soul of why I fell in love with it. It’s using communication to connect with others. At first while attending ASL 1, I loved the large classroom size because it was easier to hide amongst others. I still seem to rely on this mechanism such as the Deaf events and when they

Growing up, I always had trouble in school. All through my academic career up to high school, my mother would have to hold special meetings with my teachers to arrange for time after school for me to work on assignments with a teacher or be tutored, extended due dates, and opportunities for me to turn work in for half credit in an effort to help me pass. The story from my teachers was always the same – “he is very intelligent, but he just won’t do the work.” At that time, I was seen as a rebellious child/teen. The truth was I had trouble focusing and attending consistently to the various assignments that didn’t interest me. After dropping out of college in 2004, I felt as though I didn’t have many options for my future career. My mother worked for the state of Missouri and spoke with her friend who worked in the Vocational Rehabilitation Department about how I should seek out job opportunities. After telling him my school history, he said, “Maybe he should come in for testing.” No one prior had ever mentioned this idea before. After a day of being tested for various learning disabilities and learning deficits, I found myself diagnosed with the learning disability, ADHD.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood disorder that can continue through adolescence and adulthood. ADHD is characterized by difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, impulsive behaviors and hyperactivity. The symptoms of ADHD are grouped in three categories: inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Symptoms of inattention present as being easily distracted, missing details, forgetfulness, frequently going from one activity to another, difficulty focusing, easily bored, difficulty completing a task or learning something new, often losing things, disobedient to authoritative figures, constant daydreaming, and difficulty processing information compared to other in the

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder also known as ADHD is the common childhood brain disorders and can continue through adolescence and even adulthood. The symptoms of ADHD includes sign of inattention, hyperactivity and implusivity. (National Institute of Mental Health (NIH), 2012). Children with ADHD tend to experience problems in completing a task, academic performance and are often unpopular among peers. (Barlow & Durand, 2012).

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or simply referred to as ADHD, is an infuriating mental disorder that lies lurking in the minds of many people- teenagers, adults, kids, students. And although it may be very irksome for an adult with a job to have ADHD, it is unarguably the most troublesome to students, especially those in high school or higher. Having ADHD in school will definitely turn out to be a nightmare to those with intense ADHD.

My mom believes that I may have ADHD, or Attention –deflect/hyperactivity disorder. What this means is that I have a hard time staying focus on things for a long time. This has made it very difficult for me to do well in school. Often times while I’m sitting in class during a lecture, my mind tends to drift away to my imagination land where I find much more interesting things. It also makes it very difficult to focus on projects that need to get done. I also have a little bit of OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, at times which can get mixed with the ADHD. Often when I clean my room, I have to take all my books off the shelf, dust, then alphabetize my books in separated groups based on the theme the books have. If I find an old drawing I was working on while cleaning my room, I stop cleaning and try to finish it. It does make life a little difficult having a mixture of the two.

In second grade, I was diagnosed with ADHD. My doctor put me on medication, and suddenly, it was so much easier to pay attention. I wasn’t getting in trouble for being out of my seat as much, I didn’t talk back to the teacher as much, and my grades got a little better. The issue was never that I didn’t understand the subject material. I could add and subtract like a champ, and my grammar skills were off the chain! The issue was that I couldn’t focus.

All my life I’ve fought tooth and nail with ADHD. Typically, I come out on top, but not always. For me, my ADHD manifests itself in a few different ways. The most notable is that I have almost no attention span. When I sit down to read or write every couple minutes I’ll think of something and I won’t be able to concentrate at all until whatever it is has been taken care of. I was the most energetic kid in my preschool class. It was impossible for me to sit still. This combined with not having a great public school system where I lived, downtown San Jose, lead my mom to homeschool my brother and me. For kindergarten, we did a style of homeschooling called unschooling, where we didn’t have any specific classes or curriculum that we had to adhere to. My brother and I were free to study whatever piqued our interests. I chose to study how to speak Latin, a lot of different mythologies, Greek and Roman history as well as cooking. My mom helped offset my hyperactivity in many ways. She chose audio books instead of having me read them for myself, teaching me math with baking without using the 1 cup measure and always making like 1.5 times what the recipe called for. I’ve had several obstacles in my schooling, but ADHD has been the hardest to overcome.