Why children with ADHD do not have low IQs.(childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) From: Journal of Learning Disabilities | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Schuck, Sabrina E.B.; Crinella, Francis M. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Pro-Ed. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

We wish to apologize for the poetic license taken in the title of this article. A more correct statement of the problem would be, "Why distributions of IQ scores for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are not appreciably different from IQ distributions observed in the population at large." The belief that children with ADHD do not necessarily have low IQs can be traced back to a nodal article by Clements (1964) and has rarely since been called into questi...