Técnicas de ensino para a inclusão escolar de alunos com transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade (TDAH)

Abstract

This work had as theme the teaching techniques to scholar inclusion of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder students (ADHD), with the goal to reach a better understand about the subject and to improve education quality of these students. ADHD is psychiatric disorder which is considered relevant to school context and to public health when considering grievances that this disorder may cause in the childhood, adolescence or at adult age. At school, the major part of ADHD students demonstrates a lower school performance, due to difficulties those student have when focusing attention during class or controlling impulsiveness or hyperactivity. There are some criteria to differentiate ADHD types, where, depending of the extension of the episodes and symptoms showed by individuals they may be classified as predominantly hyperactivity/impulsive, predominantly inattentive or predominantly combined, which would require the diagnose, in order to choose the most appropriated methodology to be used. Is important to highlight this disorder may be associated to others comorbidities, as syndromes and learning difficulties, turning necessary the performance of individualized diagnose by the multiprofessionals team and adequate interventions case by case. Teacher are primary to identify signs of ADHD at school, that´s why is important training them properly in order to them recognize when is necessary to send students to a careful evaluation and to know which actions can be taken to deal with those students. Thus, is essential to make feasible methodology alteration and materials used in the classroom in order to benefit ADHD students learning process, respecting their time of learning and developing their abilities and potential. Therefore, the goal of this work was to review literature about teaching techniques to scholar inclusion of ADHD students, focusing the main difficulties found and the best principles of intervention that may be used to improve student’s education.