Performance of Schools with Disorder of Deficit of Attention with Hyperactivity in Reading Processes: Case Study - Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study is to present the performance of students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Reading processes through the presentation of five cases.
Method: Five male students with Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity participated in this study, with an average age of 9 years and 7 months of age, from the third to the fifth year of elementary school in a city in the interior of São Paulo. All students were submitted to the application of the Assessment of Reading Processes - PROLEC.
Results: Students with Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity performed poorly in the Reading Pseudowords, Grammatical Structures and Text Comprehension tests.
Conclusion: The students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the present study performed below the expected in tests that measure performance in lexical process, semantic process and syntactic process, showing that, the attentional factor when altered, can impair the development of reading processes.