Better Learning Through Fidgeting

"While drugs like Ritalin can control ADHD, which affects about 3% to 5% of children, the depressing fact is that it is incurable. Rapport hopes his work will someday lead to new ways to help kids recognize, predict and avoid its concentration gaps. Meanwhile, if you have a child with ADHD, understand that he processes the world in a different way. He might be running circles around you--literally--but that may be his way of paying attention."
(Better Learning Through Fidgeting. By: Cloud, John, Time, 0040781X, 4/13/2009, Vol. 173, Issue 14)
In his article "Better Learning Through Fidgeting", the author reminds parents, teachers, health care providers of the mysterious methods human beings are processing information and memorizing directions and the like. While children with ADHD have been labeled with a learning disability, the author emphasizes in his article the fact that each person adopts an own method to focus. Those who are surrounded by children with ADHD, such as teachers, should be open to other methods to learn in a academic environment without reaching out for medication. Covering up the problem with medicine without giving other methods a chance that are by far less invasive, is not carrying for a child's or adults need. It is surprising that people with disabilities have rights in the employment environment to perform their job responsibilities by altering their work space to their needs, but children in a classroom have no voice in regards to alteration in their academic environment to learn how to comprehend better.