title: Reading problems and antisocial behaviour: developmental trends in comorbidity.
abstract: Samples of poor and normal readers were followed through adolescence and into early adulthood to assess continuities in the comorbidity between reading difficulties and disruptive behaviour problems. Reading-disabled boys showed high rates of inattentiveness in middle childhood, but no excess of teacher-rated behaviour problems at age 14 and no elevated rates of aggression, antisocial personality disorder or officially recorded offending in early adulthood. Increased risks of juvenile offending among specifically retarded-reading boys seemed associated with poor school attendance, rather than reading difficulties per se. Reading problems were associated with some increases in disruptive behaviour in their teens in girls.
authors: MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Maughan
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Pickles
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Hagell
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Rutter
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Yule
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008131:London / Q000453:epidemiology; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development