A escolarização de crianças com TDAH: reflexões sobre o trabalho docente

Abstract

The objective of this course completion work (TCC) was to study how schooling works for children with ADHD; Reflections on teaching work. To achieve this, qualitative research was carried out, of the case study type, which included observation in a class with two children diagnosed with ADHD. To this end, a literature search will first be carried out to obtain information about the learning difficulties of children with ADHD, understand a little about the disorder, how it affects children, what their limitations are, and how ADHD makes it difficult for them during their schooling phase. , seeking from the authors' perspective what they think about the methods used by teachers and how these children are seen by school society. An interview was also carried out with the teacher and the class mediator, with the aim of finding out more about how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affects the school life of diagnosed children, how this compromises their learning and how educators are prepared to deal with the disorder. The main guidelines for this work were the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V, 2014), Signor and Santana (2016), Mattos (2020), ABDA (2017), Smith and Strick (2007). The research contributed to our understanding of how the school and teachers are including children with ADHD, how everyday dynamics work in the classroom and the teaching methods used by teachers.