Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)

From: Journal of Learning Disabilities | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Dear Dr. Swanson,

I read with great interest "Why Children with ADHD Do Not Have Low IQs," by authors Schuck and Crinella in the May/June 2005 issue of the Journal of Learning Disabilities. The authors accurately noted that most individuals with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have significantly lower IQs than children in the population and that evidence across genetic, neuroanatomical, neuropsychological, and pharmacological studies supports a physiological basis for ADHD. However, in their review of the executive function literature and in the ...

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