My topic is about the misunderstandings of attention-deficit disorder. Considering that I have a mild case of this disorder I have decided I wanted to know more about how and why I think the way I do. Most of the research I have already found is about children with the condition and having to deal with it in the school environment. But being a college student, I’m nearing my adult life of living in the real world with a real job in which is a completely different environment than the educational system to have ADD. So, from that I’ve been able to narrow down my thesis to: Attention-deficit disorder is a misunderstood condition, one that many scientists have narrowed down the cause to, used that information to help teachers know how to better structure their class for their ADD students, and then to help those students when they’ve grown up into adults –and have yet to out grow out of the symptoms– how to adjust to society.
The majority of my sources have come from journal articles of scientists, doctors, and nurses. Some discuss the medical prescriptions and the medical definition of ADD, while others examine the disorder in terms of the people affected. In terms of finding more sources I believe I’ve found a good amount of information for what I want to fill my paper with, but if I was to look for anymore it would be about parents dealing with their children, whether it’s that they get frustrated, don’t have the money for the medication, or don’t understand how to help their child.
Most of the problems I’ve run into at the moment are finding sources that touch on ADD. When I was looking for some, the majority of them simply were for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, which although I will touch on because it’s more popular than ADD I’m trying to keep my focus on just ADD. Another issue with my research is that since most of the sources were written by scientists and doctors and so they use a lot of medical jargon, so I would have to not only find information on ADD but also find information on what the doctors and scientists are talking about when it comes down to specific medical properties such as what is the cognitive system.
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