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Article #5: Add And College Students - How Does It Affect Them?

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Unfortunately, Attention Deficit Disorder increased difficulty in the academic load
does not necessarily fade with age. Many in college as compared to high school and
people that suffer as a child will the additional responsibility put on the
continue to suffer as a teen, as well as students. Not only will the student be
into adulthood. However, this disorder responsible for their own organization
may affect people differently at and structure, they will do so under more
different stages in their life. stress and academic pressure. This
College can be a difficult time for some increasingly more difficult schoolwork is
students. For many, this represents a not made easier by the student's general
time of breaking free and starting their inattentive nature, distractibility, and
new uninhibited lives. This may be an impulsiveness. The very core of ADD makes
exciting and emotional time. How does a college more difficult. With any luck,
college student with ADD face such a the student has spent enough time over
time? the last few years regulating their own
For a person with Attention Deficit behavior that they will easily be able to
Disorder, this may prove to be a harsh in this new environment.
time of transformation. Typically coming For the most part, the same steps should
from families that were especially doting be taken in college to deal with ADD as
and accommodating to their situation, was necessary in high school and other
they are thrown in to a new environment grades. To be effective, a student should
to fend for themselves. One of the basic carry some type of organizational
behavior modification techniques in calendaring system or digital organizer.
training an ADD child is through In college, they do not hold the
structure, routine, and habit. At once, students' hands like they do in high
all of this is taken and it becomes the school - once an assignment is made, it
student's responsibility to recreate this is expected to be turned in on time,
structured life they once had. Of course, without reminders. Therefore, it becomes
a person with ADD is typically imperative to keep up with deadlines and
disorganized and unstructured. So, they dates. Students should also create
may have a difficult time having the structure and organization in their dorm
discipline to enact such stringent or apartment and utilize the same skills
requirements for themselves. they have been developing for years.
Another aspect to consider is the






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