A new study has linked difficulties in school (as early as kindergarten) to lower scores on high school tests. The study was conducted by researchers from UC Davis Medical School and Michigan State University.
"In our study, a child's inability to pay attention when they start school had the strongest negative effect on how they performed at the end of high school - regardless of their IQ (intelligence quotient)," said lead study author Joshua Breslau, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and a researcher with the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological disorder that affects normal behavior and impairs the ability to concentrate.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological disorder that affects normal behavior and impairs the ability to concentrate.
Breslau and colleagues analysed data on approximately 700 children who were followed from kindergarten (ages 5 through 6) through the end of high school (ages 17 through 18).
It examined the relationship between aggressive, inattentive and depressive behaviours and children's later performance on standardized high school achievement tests.
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"Our study shows that early attention problems predict poor performance later in math and reading," Breslau said.
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