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Brad's Vignette: A Case Study Of College Students With ADHD Students

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After learning Brad’s vignette it was only natural to smile to see how brilliant of a young man he is becoming. The first thing I learnt from this vignette was that because Brad may be prone to getting distracted while doing school work isn not an excuse. However, Brad knows about how ADHD affects his studies and does not use it as an excuse for letting his grades get down. It seems that Brad works hard on everything he does and sees ideal grades from the work he puts in. Secondly, I never knew that students with ADHD were prone to having speech-learning difficulties. I found this particularly interesting because of these speech-learning difficulties it may seem that they have a hard time processing items. However, that negative stigma may …show more content…

The study by Lewandowski, Hendricks, and Gordon attempted to venture to see how ADHD students stacked up to their non-ADHD having peers. The study had 784 students (38 with ADHD) complete their series of examinations in order to examine certain test-taking skills. The sections of testing that the students would have to do were through; reading speed tests, reading comprehension tests, vocabulary test, decoding/word recognition test, self-evaluation of performance on timed academic reading, timed test anxiety inventory, demographic questionnaire, and effort measure. Through these 8 exams there were multiple tends that were noted. Firstly, it was found that students with ADHD produced a significantly lower score on comprehension accuracy, vocabulary accuracy, and decoding number correct. However, they scored the same on comprehension and vocabulary, reading speed, test navigation, test anxiety scores, or self-perceptions. After viewing the results, the “finding was that the ADHD group spent less time than peers reading the passage, yet more time than peers reading questions (Lewandowski, Hendricks, & Gordon, 2015)”. The study suggests that when a student had better reading speeds and vocabularies it will result in less anxiety and more confident. But the reading speed and vocabulary skills are not exclusive to those without ADHD. Therefore, it is possible for students with ADHD to excel within

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