Freeing the Mind
Freeing the Mind Teaching ADHD Children Growing up with ADHD-c I knew that my children would have to deal with the same thing that formal education in public school had done to me. At the young age of around five, my parents placed me on Ritalin acting on the advice of so-called informed doctors in 1975 treated ADHD as a mental condition and behavioral disorder and continue to educate educators to do so today in the classroom. [1] The content of the diagnosis in the 1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association concentrates on classifying and suppressing unwanted behaviors in the classroom. The diagnosis classifies three types of ADHD: hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention. Under hyperactivity, the first two (and most powerful) criteria are "often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat" and "often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaini...