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Abbravation: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

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Springer US

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10.1002/aja.1001050101

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1573-2835

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The Academic Experience of Male High School Studen

Authors: Kristine M Kent William E Pelham Brooke S G Molina Margaret H Sibley Daniel A Waschbusch Jihnhee Yu Elizabeth M Gnagy Aparajita Biswas Dara E Babinski Kathryn M Karch
Publish Date: 2010/11/20
Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 451-462
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This study compared the high school academic experience of adolescents with and without childhood ADHD using data from the Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study PALS Participants were 326 males with childhood ADHD and 213 demographically similar males without ADHD who were recruited at the start of the followup study Data were collected yearly from parents teachers and schools The current study used assessment points at which the participants were currently in or had recently completed grades 9 10 11 and 12 Results indicated that adolescents with ADHD experienced significant academic impairment in high school relative to comparison adolescents including lower overall and main academic subject grade point averages GPA lower levels of class placement eg remedial vs honors and higher rates of course failure In addition teacher reports indicated that adolescents with ADHD completed and turned in a significantly lower percentage of assignments and were significantly less likely to be working up to their potential Adolescents with ADHD were also significantly more likely to be absent or tardy during the academic year and they were over eight times more likely than adolescents without ADHD to drop out of high school These findings demonstrate that children with ADHD continue to experience severe academic impairment into high schoolThis study was supported by grant AA11873 from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research was also supported in part by AA00202 AA08746 AA12342 AA0626 and grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse DA12414 DA05605 F31 DA017546 the National Institute on Mental Health MH12010 MH4815 MH47390 MH45576 MH50467 MH53554 MH069614 the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ES051508 and Institute of Education Sciences IESLO3000665A IESR324B060045

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