Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Indian Education

Johnson Jament

ISBN 10: 3659415588 / ISBN 13: 9783659415586

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Sep 2013, 2013

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not well known in Indian education. As a result many children are marginalised and excluded from appropriate education. Johnson Jament takes his experience of teaching in India and the UK and combines this with his academic research to produce this study of ADHD in a South Indian education context. This book is about identifying children who display ADHD behaviour characteristics in South Indian primary schools. The American Psychiatric Association diagnostic criteria (DSM IV) have been adapted to make them culturally appropriate and have then been used to identify these children. The cultural validity and reliability of using the DSM IV criteria in a non-Western context (like India) are challenged in this book. After successful identification, it is important that appropriate provisions are made for children with ADHD characteristics and the teachers who teach them. This book makes recommendations for how such provisions can be made and how these children can be included in education.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 364 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Indian Education
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Sep 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659415588
• ISBN 13: 9783659415586
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 23D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 560 grams

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Synopsis

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not well known in Indian education. As a result many children are marginalised and excluded from appropriate education. Johnson Jament takes his experience of teaching in India and the UK and combines this with his academic research to produce this study of ADHD in a South Indian education context. This book is about identifying children who display ADHD behaviour characteristics in South Indian primary schools. The American Psychiatric Association diagnostic criteria (DSM IV) have been adapted to make them culturally appropriate and have then been used to identify these children. The cultural validity and reliability of using the DSM IV criteria in a non-Western context (like India) are challenged in this book. After successful identification, it is important that appropriate provisions are made for children with ADHD characteristics and the teachers who teach them. This book makes recommendations for how such provisions can be made and how these children can be included in education.

About the Author

After completing his doctorate at the University of Northampton, UK, Johnson Jament worked as a post doctoral research assistant. He has published and presented papers at international conferences. He has worked in a number of schools in India and the UK. He founded and runs an NGO called Venad Education & Social Services (VESS) in South India.