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Hyperactivity and Learning Difficulties

P. L. Holborow is a post-graduate researcher at the University of Queensland, Australia. She received her MSc in physiology from St. Andrews, Scotland.

P. S. Berry

P. S. Berry is head of the Dept. of Pedagogics and Scientific Studies in Education at the James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. He received his doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Manchester, England. Address: P. S. Berry, PhD, The Fred and Eleanor Schonell Education Research Centre, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia 4067.

A survey of 1,593 (807 males) children in seven primary (elementary) schools was made by means of a rating scale measuring behavior and academic difficulty. On the graded rating of learning difficulty, 7.7 percent of the children scored above the cut-off criterion of two standard deviations above the mean and the ratio of boys to girls was 2:1. The differences between boys and girls was statistically significant. Hyperactivity was determined in this study by using the cut-off criterion of 15 on the Conners' Short Parent-Teacher Questionnaire. There were 11.4 percent of children above this cut-off criterion of hyperactivity (17.8 percent of boys and 4.9 percent of girls). Twenty-seven percent of children found to be hyperactive also scored above the criterion value for learning difficulty; only 5 percent of the non-hyperactive group scored in the learning difficulty category. Of those with learning difficulty, 41 percent were also hyperactive; 3.2 percent of the children had both hyperactivity and learning difficulty. The behaviors that most closely correlated with learning difficulty were "fails to finish things she starts (short attention-span)," "inattentive and distractible," "uncoordinated, clumsy" and "fidgeting." The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of various approaches to the definitions of learning problems.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 19, No. 7, 426-431 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/002221948601900713


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