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Attention Deficit Hyperacactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is characterized by symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity at levels that are considered maladaptive and inappropriate for a child's age or stage of normal development. About 40% of them show symptoms that persist to adulthood. Most children with AD/HD will exhibit significant problems with academic performance, such as slow work completion, inconsistent accuracy on seatwork and homework, and poor study skills. Behavioral features, exhibited with AD/HD, include low-frustration tolerance, temper problems, persistence, emotional liability, depression, peer rejection, poor self-concept and poor self-esteem. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is one of the most often behavioral disorders among children and teenagers, from 5 to 8 percent of the general children population. And it is systematically growing. Today, it is well known, that AD/HD syndrome has a negative impact either on cognitive learning, or the development of social sphere. As the above disorder may continue and even progress at the later age by causing psychic, social, physical problems, early aid is advised at the youngest possible age.Education of such children requires a lot of competence from teachers (pedagogues, parents). In this context, sustaining of a positive emotional tone, motivating merit system, development of child's self- control capacities, organizing of special learning environments are the most important.In order to look for the particular means by which sort of correction for children with AD/HD syndrome should be chosen, that would also help developing their self-control, positive self- estimation, story-telling phenomenon was chosen (story- telling, analysis and interpretation of fairy tales, fantasy journeys while listening, re-creating and dramatizing of fairy tales, games, story-telling according to pictures and cards). A story-telling phenomenon, as one of the creativity development forms, helps to observe the merits that stimulate harmonious development of a child. The following grounded suppositions disclosing story telling advantages determined the choice of story-telling phenomenon for children with AD/HD.As stated by psychologists, uniqueness of a story is connected not only with a fantasy, it's notions, but also with a fact, that stories stimulate imagination and thinking by helping to fortify human values and get accustomed with a permanent life change (????????, 1997). Stories are important for a normal psychic development of a child. As per the explanation of the best children psychologist on a worldwide level - Bruno Bettelheim, a story helps to understand own negative emotions and solve psychological problems in a positive way, a story helps to feel safe, because it's images derive from unconsciousness, while consciously it is difficult to comprehend. Stories stimulate unconsciousness of a child, aid in forming child's sense of independence, give a new quality to life by provoking new experiences and impulses of creativity (B. Bettelheim, 1976). In the context of humanistic psychology, where creativity is understood as a Tran formative force, strengthening the sense of a human value (Rogers, 1951), story analysis and interpretation, individual story-telling are to help a child in acknowledging oneself with own merits and deficiencies. Specifically, a main task here is to teach a child how to discover oneself and develop self-control.Up to now the undisclosed importance of the story-telling phenomenon for children with AD/HD allows to formulate the problem of the research with the following question: what are the new opportunities of the story-telling phenomenon for pupils with hyperactivity and attention deficit disorders, their cognitive activity, formation of their behavior? 10 children with AD/HD were chosen for the experimental research. The results of the study which is being carried out at present will allow to compare changes in children's' with AD/HD behavior and cognitive characteristics according to set criteria, before and after the experiment.
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