Treatment in School Age Children with ADHD in a School Setting

Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
TREATMENT IN SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN WITH ADHD IN A SCHOOL
SETTING
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1RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Treatment in school age children with ADHD in a school setting
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common
neurological disorder which affects neurological development of children. With onset in
childhood, the effect of ADHD persists in adulthood as well. However, if the school settings are
equipped with facilities and interventions so that students with ADHD could be provided
interventions or special education plan so that with the help of these psychosocial treatment,
management of students could be obtained (Chacko et al., 2014). It is important that the school
facilities provide the students with ADHD an Individualized Educational program or IEP so that
each student and their learning abilities could be properly assessed and interventions as per their
abilities could be applied (Van de Glind et al., 2013). This school based treatment will be helpful
in bringing inclusion and confidence in students with ADHD and the confidence will develop in
their day to day life so that their sense of mental wellbeing could be encouraged.
Statement of Purpose
1. What is ADHD?
2. How can the “application of school based treatment” be beneficial to students with
ADHD?
3. What are the other interventions which could be as beneficial as the proposed
intervention for students with ADHD?
4. How this intervention could be applied in Los Angeles School District?
5. Which kind of situations could be handled by the application of this intervention in
school facilities?

2RESEARCH PROPOSAL
6. Can school based interventions be applied in school students in combination with
Occupational therapy?
Background
ADHD is a disorder associated to brains which is characterized by inattention and
hyperactivity related impulsivity which generally interferes with the daily activities of daily life
of the affected individual (Van de Glind et al., 2013). This disorder directly or indirectly affects
the ability of the child to access the curriculum taught in the classroom than other children who
are not affected with the disorder. Due to this children become unable to distracted to smaller
incidences of classroom such as windows, posters present on wall, conversation between other
kids, as well they are unable to sit still or faces difficulty in following instructions (Christakou et
al., 2013). However, if the school based interventions along with occupational therapy is applied,
it has been witnessed that students are able to enhance their attention ability, which not only
enhances their education but also positively enhances their activities of daily life. In a research
by Power et al. (2012), it is determined that school based interventions including parents of
children is helpful in improving the ADHD associated condition as they named the intervention
as Family School Success or FSS. Therefore, with application of these interventions it is possible
to enrich the students with their enhanced intellectual ability and increases their ability of
learning and ability to focus on interventions (Adamou et al., 2013).
Significance
ADHD is one of most common and widespread mental disorder which is very hard to
diagnose and treat among children as the symptoms of this disorder are very common and could
easily be misinterpreted in majority of the children. Due to this children who are actually