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College Students Classified with ADHD and the Foreign Language Requirement

Education Department at the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio

James Javorsky

Human Studies and Child Development Department at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan

Lois Philips

College of Arts and Sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

The conventional assumption of most disability service providers is that students classified as having attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) will experience difficulties in foreign language (FL) courses. However, the evidence in support of this assumption is anecdotal. In this empirical investigation, the demographic profiles, overall academic performance, college entrance scores, and FL classroom performance of 68 college students classified as having ADHD were examined. All students had graduated from the same university over a 5-year period. The findings showed that all 68 students had completed the university's FL requirement by passing FL courses. The students' college entrance scores were similar to the middle 50% of freshmen at this university, and their graduating grade point average was similar to the typical graduating senior at the university. The students had participated in both lower (100) and upper (200, 300, 400) level FL courses and had achieved mostly average and above-average grades (A, B, C) in these courses. One student had majored and eight students had minored in an FL. Two thirds of the students passed all of their FL courses without the use of instructional accommodations. In this study, the classification of ADHD did not appear to interfere with participants' performance in FL courses. The findings suggest that students classified as having ADHD should enroll in and fulfill the FL requirement by passing FL courses.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 37, No. 2, 169-178 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/00222194040370020701


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