What difficulties do children with ADHD face?

Children with ADHD face challenges in deficits in planning and working memory which could be the basis as to why they are unable to make adequate connections among events. Children with ADHD may also fall short of exerting the required effort on complex tasks, such as story comprehension for instance (Barkley, 1997). This shows that ADHD does not render the child completely incapable of performing cognitive tasks, but rather it makes it very difficult for the child to carry out selective attention which affects the way the child understands causal relations in different situations. This cognitive process is very important in all aspects of life, both academic and social. Having the ability to infer possible events and consequences is an essential part of a social setting. Human beings are social animals and the whole idea of social intelligence lies in the ability to link events to each other and predict the way another person or organism will react to certain events.

Barkley, R. A. (1997). ADHD and the nature of self-control. New York: Guilford.

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