TRANSTORNO DO DÉFICIT DE ATENÇÃO COM HIPERATIVIDADE ENQUANTO DIREITO DAS PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA NO BRASIL

Abstract

The aforementioned work is dedicated to researching the feasibility of extending the concept of person with disability to people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Brazil. Its main purpose is to look into what international and national legislation has done to protect these communities, as well as to analyze how Brazilian jurisprudence has established itself in providing care to people with this disorder. The study, of dogmatic nature, has a descriptive purpose in that it aims to present in detail the structure aimed at protecting people with disabilities and ADHD in the Brazilian scenario, as well as having nuances of exploratory purpose, as it focuses on the main normative texts that define the concepts of disability and seek to evaluate Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder based on these. This is qualitative research, of a basic type, which aims to analyze subjective phenomena, and for this purpose it adopted bibliographic and documentary analysis as a data collection technique and, as a data processing technique, content analysis. Furthermore, as results, it is intended to demonstrate that the legislation that binds the Brazilian State internally and internationally authorizes the recognition of the condition of PwD for those with ADHD.