Identify at least three of the potential side effects associated with the use of psychostimulants in the management of ADHD. What role/responsibility does the classroom teacher play with regard to student medication?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Typical side effects of using psychostimulants include, in some instances, loss of appetite, insomnia, drowsiness, tics, irritability, abdominal pain, headaches, and growth retardation
Role/responsibility of the classroom teacher – monitor student’s intake of medication; monitor, and report if necessary, any significant changes in the child’s demeanor
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Identifying _____, which are dictated and determined by information about problems that previously occurred, is the first step to preventing problem behaviors. These may be manipulated to teach more appropriate behaviors and benefit students
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Caution must be exercised in the assessment phase for students with ADHD due to the
A) legal issues surrounding students on medication. B) subjectivity of some of the assessment procedures. C) near impossibility of administering many standardized tests to students with short attention spans. D) defensiveness many parents exhibit when told their child has ADHD.
Refer to Exhibit 9-4. Removing ambiguous items from the test
a. lower reliability c. neither raise nor lower reliability b. raise reliability