{"id":7917,"date":"2022-08-02T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/what-is-adhd\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:18:04","slug":"what-is-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/what-is-adhd\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ADHD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD<\/b> is a very common neurodevelopmental disorder that appears in childhood and often continues into adulthood. It is mainly characterized by three symptoms: attention deficit, impulsivity and hyperactivity. ADHD can appear with three different types of presentation, depending on the predominant symptomatology.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Predominant presentation of attention deficit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Predominant presentation of impulsivity or hyperactivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Combined presentation of both characteristics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In any case, it is important to know that students with ADHD will encounter more obstacles to achieve good school results, so it is necessary that the educational intervention guarantees personalized learning that takes into account the characteristics of each person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some recommendations to improve the care of students with ADHD by schools and teachers include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide additional time for testing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interspersing break times between academic activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make adaptations of content to suit personal learning style.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positive feedback<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapt the environment to avoid distractions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use technology to support homework.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To have additional support to help organize time and activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talk to students to better understand their needs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you haven&#8217;t tried our educational platform yet, you can do it for free by filling out this form <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/how-to-start-learning\/\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Attention Deficit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}