The journal Pediatrics recently published a report by researchers at the Children’s Hospital Boston and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota that revealed that children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at higher risk for developing written language disorder (WLD) as well.
The study stated that though the risk is high for boys and girls with ADHD, girls seemed to have a higher chance of developing WLD along with reading difficulties as compared to boys with ADHD.
The number of children with ADHD is one of the highest in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that approximately 10% of American children between the ages of 4 and 17 have ADHD.
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