Teenage status of hyperactive and nonhyperactive learning disabled boys.
Three groups of learning disabled boys--hyperactives, normoactives, and hypoactives--were studied in grade school, reevaluated at fourteen. At follow-up, all three groups remained at disadvantage to controls on academic and cognitive measures and on complex reaction time. Half the hyperactives had experienced major conflicts with authority, and over a third of hypoactives exhibited psychologically disturbing behaviors. Mental health of normoactives appeared comparable to controls.
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D006948:Hyperkinesis / Q000150:complications*; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D011930:Reaction Time