Organization of psychological and pedagogic aid for pupils with ADHD in Polish educational system
Anna Borkowska

Pupils with ADHD are children of special educational needs who often find it difficult to meet the school requirements, which results from the specificity of their functioning. Equalizing of educational chances for this group of pupils constitutes the objective of psychological and pedagogic aid provided in kindergartens, schools and specialistic educational facilities. The psychological and pedagogic aid should be provided as close to the pupil as possible, i.e. at the school which the pupil attends or specialistic educational facility, and its organization rests with the director of such school or facility. A pupil with ADHD may receive help at school in the form of individualized work at obligatory educational classes and remedial work during additional specialistic classes or in a psychological and pedagogic dispensary within corrective and compensatory as well as speech or other therapy classes. Teachers are obliged to adjust the contents, methods and organization of teaching to psychophysical capabilities of the pupil with ADHD according to the opinion issued at the psychological and pedagogic dispensary. A pupil diagnosed apart from ADHD also with concomitant behavioural disorders or risk of social maladjustment may obtain a certificate showing that she/he needs special education. In such cases the school has to work out an individual educational-therapeutic programme containing remedial measures of resocialization or sociotherapeutic nature. In case of children with ADHD diagnosed with severe hyperkinetic disorder symptoms which make school attendance impossible or quite difficult, individual education may be administered by virtue of the certificate showing the need for such teaching.