PEDIATRICS Vol. 76 No. 2 August 1985, pp. 185-190
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Fifteen-Year Follow-up of a Behavioral History of Attention Deficit Disorder

David C. Howell PhD1, Hans R. Huessy MD1, and Bruce Hassuk 1

1 From the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington

A 15-year longitudinal study of 369 children originally classified in second grade as exhibiting or not exhibiting behaviors commonly associated with attention deficit disorder was made. Diagnostic data were collected on these children in second, fourth, and fifth grades and subsequent school performance was evaluated after ninth and twelfth grades. Interviews were conducted 3 years after their graduation from high school. The ninth and twelfth grade records reveal that those who had previously been identified as showing behavior related to attention deficit disorder later performed significantly more poorly in school and had poorer social adjustment. Interviews in early adulthood continued to reveal differences in outcome between normal subjects and those earlier classified as having attention deficit disorder. Many of these differences could not be directly attributed to poor academic performance. A subgroup of students who were rated favorably by their elementary school teachers were found to perform better during high school than other members of the normal group in academic areas, but they generally did not differ from normal subjects in nonacademic areas.

Key Words: attention deficit disorder • hyperkinesis • minimal brain dysfunction • behavioral disorders

Submitted on January 11, 1984
Accepted on May 22, 1984




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