Hyperactive Children: How Do They Help?

All excited children hyperactive without good reason for that can not be considered. Hyperactive children can not control their behavior because of minimal brain dysfunction. Hyperactive children are impulsive, inconsistent, they can not concentrate on something for a long time, it's even difficult to just sit still for them.

Such children are in constant movement, and their movements are often chaotic and uncoordinated. Hyperactive children absolutely can not listen to the interlocutor. They talk a lot, constantly interrupt and argue with adults. Adults find it very difficult to manage them, but hyperactive children themselves are not easy.

Hyperactive children need the help of several specialists. The neuropathologist prescribes medication, teachers and educators, using methods of encouragement, teach the child to control his behavior and attention and suppress the wrong behavioral manifestations. The best way to learn how to manage your behavior and train your attention is helping the game. During classes with hyperactive children, games should be selected for developing attention, for relaxation, for developing skills in volitional regulation and for communication skills.

First of all, in order to correct hyperactivity in children, we need a calm environment and observance of the regime of the day. In order for the child to concentrate on the task during the games, he does not need to be constantly pulled back, otherwise he will switch to controlling his behavior. It is possible to demand attention only after some time. So that the child is not overtired and overexcited, it is necessary to change the types of classes in time and the main thing is to immediately encourage or punish him, since the child himself can not properly assess his actions and need constant control from the outside. First, the child needs to be dealt with individually, and then gradually include it in group games, since it is impossible to immediately introduce the child into the collective because of his lack of restraint, which leads to conflicts between playing children.

This behavior began to be considered a pathology in the sixties of the twentieth century, and in the 1980s, hyperactivity in children was isolated in an independent disease called ADHD, a disorder of attention with hyperactivity disorder or attention deficit disorder. According to the scientists of the SNAP, approximately 18% of children who are at risk of developing such vices as drug addiction or alcoholism suffer. Interestingly, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in boys is several times more common than in girls.

The very first signs of ADHD are sometimes observed even in children of the first year of life. Such children are often very sensitive to a variety of external stimuli, such as artificial light, sounds and much more. They constantly and loudly cry, fall asleep badly and sleep little, maybe some lag in motor and speech development, children are often passive, inert and not very emotional.
Parents in the first years of a child's life are often disturbed by a large number of his movements, besides often disorderly and chaotic, doctors note some awkwardness and awkwardness of such children and some problems with speech, complex movements such as jumping, they master much later.

Many researchers of hyperactivity and teachers notice that every year more and more such children become more and more. And now the study of the causes of this situation has been started, and a number of reasons are singled out (which are purely conditional, of course) into three large groups: these are the causes of the genetic plan, or hereditary, biological, that is, various brain damage during pregnancy or as a result of birth trauma , And socio-psychological, this group includes alcoholism or drug addiction of parents, improper education and / or poor living conditions, as well as an unfavorable family microclimate.

The third group of reasons is considered by many to be fundamental, so the complete elimination of these causes, the benevolent attention to the child and the ability to become his friend may well help many children suffering from ADHD.