Describe three ways in which ADHD may impact an elementary school-aged child's ability to resolve the developmental challenges experienced by all children
What will be an ideal response?
• Developmental tasks
o self-regulation (physiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral)
o effortful control (increases in effortful control result in declines in impulsivity and distractibility)
o executive functioning – goal-directed behavior that involves the following
? inhibition of behavior
? working memory (remembering information over a brief period of time)
? shifting (ability to attend and consciously change mental sets, rule sets or tasks)
• ADHD impacts all of these in how a child interacts with others and learns
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