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    Primary School Teachers’ Awareness and Practice Regarding Children With adhd
    (AAU, 2020-06) Merkeb Mekonnen, Kebadu; Bekele, Yirgashewa
    We can find children with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder in any regular classroom. Most of the time teachers perceive these students as disruptive and punish them. So teachers should have awareness to identify and treat children with ADHD. The right type of teacher with the right type of knowledge and competencies can do better justice to the children with attention problem than teacher with general pedagogy backgrounds. So the aim of this study was to assess primary school teachers‟ awareness and practice regarding children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at selected government primary schools of Akaki Kality Sub city. A descriptive survey of 56 teachers was conducted with attempts to describe the level of awareness and practice on teachers regarding children with ADHD through the following dimensions: characteristics, effect of ADHD on school performance, identification, support and the challenges in teaching children with ADHD. In addition 3 school directors, 1 cluster supervisor, 3guidance and counselors, 2special needs education professionals, 3 students with ADHD and their parents were selected purposively. Therefore totally 71 participants were included for the study. A 5-point likert scale questionnaire was adopted from available scales. The teachers have lack of awareness and practice regarding children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.