Abstract

EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPER ACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) IN CHILDREN’S AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

*Ashish Gautam

Abstract

One in five children has a clinically significant psychiatric disorder that should be treated. A major portion of the hyperactive child’s problem related to difficulties in performing age appropriate task. Hyperactive children are highly distractible and have extremely limited attention span. Early identification and treatment of those children is critical in order to reduce risk for psychiatric disorders, reaching into their adult lives. Teachers are often the first one who to recognize or suspect psychiatric disorder in children, that is because lack of attention in school of child and in some cases disrupts the rest of class and because the teacher are with children day-in and day-out. Thus the researcher felt that there is a need to asses an “Effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD) in children’s among Primary School Teachers.”. Results & finding of the study are when the sample were taken for study the samples had less knowledge about ADHD. The planned teaching on knowledge regarding ADHD was found to be effective in increasing the knowledge in primary school teacher’s. the samples had significant gain in knowledge after the planned teaching programme.

Keywords: Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD), Primary School Teachers.