Provide a 8 pages analysis while answering the following question: Developmental Issues And Adjustment: How Disability Impacts A Persons Life. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found

  

Provide a 8 pages analysis while answering the following question: Developmental Issues And Adjustment: How Disability Impacts A Persons Life. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. There are about eight million adults who show “overall restlessness, poor sustained attention to tasks and impaired impulse control (Nathan, 2012).” The condition not only has a significant effect on the life of the person with ADHD but also on the life of the people surrounding the individual. This paper will attempt to offer a description of the reality faced by an individual with a learning disability as a consequence of having ADHD. ADHD: WHY DOES IT AFFECT THE LEARNING PROCESS? Behavioral and psychological aspects. An individual with ADHD has no physical impairments. The person looks as healthy as the next person. The teacher, however, will probably be the first to find striking differences in behavior and learning skills between an individual with ADHD and one without. ADHD causes an individual to be restless, easily distracted and unable to focus for long periods of time. Unfortunately, this behavior has a significant influence on a person’s speaking, reading, writing, spelling and math skills, resulting to a learning disability as defined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA. (MedicineNet, 2013) Basically, when a child finds it difficult to learn what is expected of him at a certain stage of the developmental process even if he is under normal learning conditions it may be a manifestation of a learning disability. Possible causes. Research in learning disabilities has attributed the condition to possible differences in the way the brain functions and processes information. (MedicineNet, 2013) ADHD, which has a direct effect relationship to how the brain manages information, may be a cause of a learning disability. Having ADHD is supposed to be a result of several factors such as genetics, the environment, brain injuries and food additives. (National, 2009) Researchers are still trying to pinpoint the exact cause of ADHD. Genes play a big role in how a person develops. This is the reason scientists have considered them as a source of ADHD since the condition usually manifests itself in members of the same family. (National, 2009) Cigarette and alcohol use by pregnant mothers is another possible cause. (Linnet et al., 2003) A research on fish consumption by pregnant women also discovered that the participants who had a higher level of mercury from eating fish had children who exhibited symptoms of ADHD but were not clinically diagnosed with the condition. (Lupkin, 2012) Children who had traumatic brain injury may have ADHD. Research has shown that the brains of children with ADHD have smaller frontal lobes, the part of the brain which influences motor function, spontaneity and impulse control. (LaMotte, n.d.) A number of explanations have been proposed as the reason behind ADHD, including the level of sugar and food additives intake. (National, 2009) Continuous research is being done to determine the real reason behind the disorder. Symptoms. Basically, children with ADHD are more inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive than their peers. As a result, they may not be able to perform well in school.&nbsp.