By moving, hyperactive children learn new information better, scientists say.
Psychologists at the University of Florida (USA) came to the conclusion1that hyperactive children should not be pulled up and tried to call for order, as we usually do with other schoolchildren. It turned out that the movements do not distract children with hyperactivity syndrome, but, on the contrary, help them concentrate on the task. “We are not advocating for children to be allowed to run around the classroom,” emphasizes psychologist Mark Rapport, one of the authors of the study, “but we are reminding that these children need physical activity in order to fully engage their cognitive abilities.” The question remains: if the child really suffers from hyperactivity, how can he deal with it without disturbing others?
1 Journal of Child Abnormality, 2015, vol. 43, № 4.