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Learning Disabilities and ADHD

Overlapping Spectrum Disorders

Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine

Susan L. Calhoun

Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine

Errin W. Crowell

Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine

Clinical and psychoeducational data were analyzed for 119 children ages 8 to 16 years who were evaluated in a child diagnostic clinic. A learning disability (LD) was present in 70% of the children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a learning disability in written expression two times more common (65%) than a learning disability in reading, math, or spelling. Children with LD and ADHD had more severe learning problems than children who had LD but no ADHD, and the former also had more severe attention problems than children who had ADHD but no LD. Further, children with ADHD but no LD had some degree of learning problem, and children with LD but no ADHD had some degree of attention problem. Results suggest that learning and attention problems are on a continuum, are interrelated, and usually coexist.

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