Painting as an artistic expression activity for teaching work in children with ADHD in initial education

Abstract

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the disorders that children present with great frequency in Early Childhood Education. This negatively influences the care process of these infants. Teachers of Initial Education are not always prepared to give adequate psycho-pedagogical treatment to these children during the teaching-learning process. It is important to know the manifestations of this entity to be able to give the appropriate pedagogical response and to ensure that infants maintain their attention towards teaching activities. On the other hand, painting is considered as a manifestation of artistic expression in Initial Education, which constitutes an important area of learning, therefore, it is known as one of the activities that contributes, due to its characteristics, to achieving the attention and motivation of children with ADHD during the learning process corresponding to their level. The objective of this work is to offer a series of teaching activities based on painting, for this study population between 3 to 4 years old, in order for them to maintain their attention and motivation from the creative process they carry out as result of the activity of painting.