Children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder may have a combination of behavior problems, including difficulty maintaining attention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Children with ADHD will have outbursts or speak out at inappropriate times. They will shun undertaking tasks that require mental effort. Teachers may help reduce this impulsive behaviors by using positive reinforcement, immediately using tangible rewards such as stickers or extra free time. Presenting assignments in small chunks helps ADHD students from becoming overwhelmed and acting out.
A learning disorder encompasses learning academics in non-typical learning patterns, due to the way the brain processes information. Students with a learning disorder may perceive and write numbers and letters in reverse. They often are unable to process letters and their sound associations, making it difficult to sound out words or read sentences. Sustaining memorization is difficult and confusing for remembering how to apply basic components of reading and math. Behavior issues for learning disability students entail frustration, avoidance behavior when doing schoolwork, recalling assignments and concepts. They may act out with physical aggression or apathy, and evade classroom rules to keep away from academic work.
Children with developmental delays often display disruptive behavior in the classroom; they are frustrated and have difficulty understanding academics, the school environment and classroom rules. They lag behind developmentally in one or several areas, such as physical development, thinking, communication, social or emotional and adapting skills. It is typical for them throw tantrums, objects, hit others or hurt themselves. Socially they do not perceive social skills by watching and listening to others and feel victimized when redirected for incorrect behavior. Teachers can help developmental delayed students through modeling repetitiously the correct behavior. If a child wants another student's counting blocks and grabs them without asking, the teacher can demonstrate the correct behavior by asking the student if he may use some of his counting blocks. Modeling the appropriate behaviors can help diminish tantrums and outbursts.
Behavior disorders go beyond such typical child misbehavior as occasionally getting in trouble for talking in class. Students with a behavior disorders constantly display hostile and aggressive behavior.Their nature is being belligerent and demonstrating such behaviors as tantrums, threatening peers and adults, hostility, lying, and harming themselves, authority figures or pets. In the classroom, they do not perform well and appear to plan disruption. Teachers can assist behavior-disordered children by referring them to the school psychologist for intervention creating a behavior plan. Children with this disorder often need to be isolated from classmates or receive their education through special services for the emotionally disturbed.