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An Examination of Youth with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Language Learning Disabilities: A Clinical Study

James Javorsky is a special education doctoral fellow with a specialization in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, in the Department of Educational Studies at Purdue University. He received his master's in education from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His primary research interests are comorbidity of dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities with psychiatric disorders (specifically, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), and second-language acquisition by individuals with language-based learning disabilities. Address: James Javorsky, Purdue University, Department of Educational Studies, Room 5131 LAEB, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

This study examined the performance of 96 youth hospitalized at an acute-care psychiatric hospital on a battery of language measures. The participants were separated into four groups: (a) participants with language learning disabilities (LLD; n = 14), (b) participants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n = 26), (c) participants with both ADHD and LLD (ADHD/LLD; n = 18), (d) participants with neither ADHD nor LLD (Neither; n = 38). Participants with ADHD/LLD performed significantly more poorly than did the ADHD group or the Neither group on measures of phonology and syntax, but not semantics. However, participants with ADHD/LLD did not significantly differ from participants with LLD on a majority of language-based measures. This finding suggests that participants with ADHD/LLD have profiles more similar to those of participants with LLD than participants with ADHD. Educational implications for instruction for students with ADHD/LLD are presented.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 29, No. 3, 247-258 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949602900303


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