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Treating ADHD and Reading Disorders

About 30% of children with ADHD also havehis ADHD may still improve his reading
some form of reading disorder, such asability  significantly.
dyslexia. Recently, a study was done to
examine whether or not ADHD treatment helpedThe results of the study were not all good,
these children with their reading problems.however. A number of children had side
The study was funded by the pharmaceuticaleffects from taking the medication, though
company, Eli Lilly and Company and was donenone of them serious. Yet Strattera is known
using  their  flagship  product,  Strattera.to cause some serious side effects, including
abnormal mood fluctuations and even suicidal
In this 16 week study compared two groups ofthoughts.
ADHD children. The first group consisted of
20 children with ADHD who had no diagnosedConclusion
reading disorder. The second group consisted
of 36 ADHD children who also had a diagnosedThe results of this study suggest that a
reading  disability.child's ADHD interferes with the child's
normal ability to read. I say this because
After taking Strattera for 16 weeks, botheven children with no known reading
groups of patients showed almost 50%disability were able to make significant
improvements in their ADHD symptoms likegains in reading level just by receiving
inattentiveness, hyperactivity andtreatment for their ADHD. If this is true
impulsivity. Additionally, children who hadthen it should not matter how you treat the
a reading disorder jumped two years inADHD, as long as you do something to treat
reading skills from their level before theit.
study. Interestingly, the children without
reading disabilities also improved theirWith that in mind, significant improvements
reading skills by almost a year and a half.in reading ability should occur when you use
Improvements in reading ability as well asother treatments for ADHD, such as Ritalin,
reading comprehension were shown in bothother stimulants, or even natural ADHD
groups. Also, advances in spelling abilitytreatments. Since no one has yet to
were recorded for both groups. The ADHDinvestigate the use of other treatments for
group jumped almost nine months and the grouptreating ADHD and reading disorders, no one
who had a reading disorder along with ADHDcan say for sure whether or not this
jumped  almost  10  months.speculation  is  true.
This study is significant for a number ofAll that we really know so far about the
reasons. First of all, up to 30% of ADHDconnection of ADHD and reading disorders is
children also have reading disabilities.that in one small study, ADHD children both
While there is no real evidence that having awith and without reading disabilities were
reading disorder makes a child's ADHDable to make significant gains in their
symptoms any worse, it definitely has areading level when their ADHD was treated.
negative impact of school performance. TheThis study points out that it is extremely
study also shows that even if your child doesimportant to treat ADHD and that such
not have a known reading disability, treatingtreatment should help school performance.



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