How to achieve autonomy in children with attention deficit
Educating a child is not an easy task. This mission becomes especially difficult in those cases in which the child presents some problem As the attention deficit. In these situations that are put uphill you have to know how to proceed and stimulate the best way to the little one.
The first thing to know in these cases is that children with a disorder of attention deficit they do not have a lower intellectual capacity than the rest. This is indicated by the clinical neuropsychologist Paloma Méndez from Miguel, Hospital Quirónsalud San José, which explains that these students can study their academic life in the most normal way as their classmates.
Autonomy in children with attention deficit
The fact that a child suffers from attention deficit does not mean that he has less capacity than his peers, simply that he needs help to stimulate his autonomy. Dr. Méndez explains that although "they appear difficulties in the studies in children with this neurobiological disorder "these will be related to the intensity of the picture and not" with the intelligence of these, given that ADHD is not linked to intellectual capacity ".
To achieve school normality in the students with attention deficit, it is necessary to bet on tools that promote their autonomy. Here are some ways to help these children:
- Divide school assignments. These children should be divided their duties in small steps. This will increase your persistence when it comes to solving tasks.
- Improve the way to give orders. These children should be given clear, short and simple instructions.
- Parents should encourage the use and application of self-instructions to encourage internal language as an important factor in directing behaviors.
- Increase motivation. There is nothing that motivates more than a reward for a job well done or a compliment when something success is achieved so that the feeling of competition makes them move forward.
- Increase your reflexibility. After completing their tasks, they must allow what they think out loud and what they could improve to favor the internal language as a mediator of the behavior.
- Not paying attention. If the child has understood what he should do, we must let him act with autonomy and trust him. Of course, parents must be present to solve any doubts of the child if it arises, but not to distract.
- Avoid arguments and rebuke since negative attention is also a reinforcement.
Objective of autonomy in children
Do not forget that the mission at the time of to stimulate the autonomy in children is not that they simply approve. The goal is for him to be able to do things for himself, without anyone reminding them and dare with new challenges that may arise in the future. For this reason, parents should be supportive, not a substitute when it comes to solving their children's problems.
Nor should they be a Brake and denying the children the possibility of acting for themselves. We must provide confidence, as long as there is no danger to the child, in order to increase the degrees of autonomy of the youngest members of the household. For example, he wants to dress himself, first he must be taught how to do it and explain what each garment is for, so he can repeat it later.
Damián Montero
