Angel Case Study
The presented case study is of an 11-year-old male student in the sixth grade called Angel. The student is currently diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD is a medical condition that primarily affects the development of the brain along with brain activity hence affecting the attention of the person, their ability to sit still, and self-control. Some of the key symptoms of ADHD among children include self-focused behaviors, trouble paying attention and controlling their impulsiveness, being forgetful or a tendency to lose things, making careless mistakes and taking unnecessary risks, and finding it difficult to get along with others (Tong et al., 2016). The case study points out that Angel has been involved in physical fights with his peers, finds attention to pay attention in class, and thus is commonly seen making side comments in class to annoy other students and rarely completes the assignment. These traits indicate that the student has ADHD. As a result, it is challenging for him to have a friendly interaction with the peers, and in most cases, he is either bullying them or involved in fights. In five days, it is evident that the frequency of these disturbances is very high, especially cases of making inappropriate comments on other students or failing to complete work. Since it has been determined that the student has ADHD, the hypothesis for the function of the behavior is that the student has delayed maturation in some parts of his brain that are directly associated with cognition thus indicating a direct biological link between the neurobehavioral disorder and his low participation in the educational development (Keilow et al., 2018). Since the student’s behaviors are affecting other students, the consequence so far has been the teacher redirecting the student and two in-school and one out of school suspension.