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- Title
Children with comorbid speech sound disorder and specific language impairment are at increased risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Authors
McGrath, Lauren M.; Hutaff-Lee, Christa; Scott, Ashley; Boada, Richard; Shriberg, Lawrence D.; Pennington, Bruce F.
- Abstract
This study focuses on the comorbidity between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and speech sound disorder (SSD). SSD is a developmental disorder characterized by speech production errors that impact intelligibility. Previous research addressing this comorbidity has typically used heterogeneous groups of speech-language disordered children. This study employed more precise speech-language diagnostic criteria and examined ADHD symptomatology in 108 SSD children between the ages of 4 and 7 years old with specific language impairment (SLI) (n = 23, 14 males, 9 females) and without SLI (n = 85, 49 males, 36 females). We also examined whether a subcategory of SSD, persistent (n = 39, 25 males, 14 females) versus normalized SSD (n = 67, 38 males, 29 females), was associated with ADHD and/or interacted with SLI to predict ADHD symptomatology. Results indicated that participants in the SSD + SLI group had higher rates of inattentive ADHD symptoms than those in the SSD-only and control groups. In addition, an unexpected interaction emerged such that children with SLI and normalized-SSD had significantly higher ADHD inattentive ratings than the other subgroups. A proposed explanation for this interaction is discussed.
- Subjects
COLORADO; COMORBIDITY; SPEECH disorders in children; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; CHILDREN'S language; SYMPTOMS; CHILD development deviations; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; COMMUNICATIVE disorders in children; DEMOGRAPHY; INTELLECT; LANGUAGE disorders; SEMANTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; SPEECH disorders; SEVERITY of illness index; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0091-0627
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10802-007-9166-8