Teaching Adult Students With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, How Do We Know and What Do We Do?

By:
Margaret Mary Dizon
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Adult learners who either self-diagnose or are undiagnosed with ADHD will present with different behaviours that are otherwise unacceptable in class. How do we know if they have special learning needs or if they are just being horrible, just having a bad day? It is useful to know how to identify some key features of ADHD in adults, the current debate in the use of diagnostic criteria developed for children, implications for diagnosis and treatment and consequences of their behaviour if we don't know what to do about them in the classroom.


Keywords: Adult Learners, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mature-aged, Learning Needs, Diagnostic Criteria
Stream: Adult, Vocational, Tertiary and Professional Learning, Special Education, Learning Difficulties, Disability, Teacher Training and Development
Presentation Type: 60 minute Workshop Presentation in English
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Margaret Mary Dizon

Lecturer, Maths, Computing and Psychology, Centre for Access and English as a Second Language
Faculty of Education and Health Science, Charles Darwin University
Australia

Margie is completing her Doctor in Psychology at James Cook University and has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, an Honours in Psychology and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Margie teaches Maths, Computing, Anger Management, Social Skills and Work-Ready in the Certificates of General Education for Adults. She also teaches (external and internal) Introductory Psychology and Mathematics in the Tertiary Enabling Program.

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