Trajectories of Response to Treatments in Children with ADHD and Word Reading Difficulties.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated patterns of response to intervention in children with co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and reading difficulties (RD), who participated in a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of reading intervention, ADHD treatment, or combined treatments. Growth Mixture Modeling (GMM) was used to investigate trajectories of parent and teacher academic impairment ratings and child oral reading fluency, and whether trajectories were predicted by pre-treatment covariates (ADHD severity, reading achievement, phonemic awareness, rapid letter naming, anxiety, oppositional defiant disorder), for 216 children with ADHD/RD in 2^nd-5^th grade (61.1% male; 72.2% African American; 8.8 ± 1.3 years of age). GMM revealed three trajecto

SUBMITTER: Dvorsky M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10568448 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature