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ADHD Statistics

The occurrence of ADHD diagnosis among American children has been ever-increasing throughout recent years. Experts say roughly five percent of school-aged children have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.

In accordance with a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more or less 1.6 million elementary school-aged children have been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In a nationwide assessment, the parents of 7 percent of children 6-11 years of age accounted ever being told by a doctor or health professional that their child had ADHD.

The report illustrates that about one-half of children identified with ADHD have also been recognized as having a learning disability. The report puts forward many of the distinctiveness of children with ADHD, learning disability, and children suffering from both conditions. Amid children with a diagnosis of only ADHD, boys were nearly three times as probable as girls to have this identification. White non-Hispanic children were over twice as liable as Hispanic and black non-Hispanic children to account a diagnosis of ADHD.

The study also presents that children with ADHD use additional health care services than children devoid of this diagnosis. Some other statistics related to ADHD are:

1. Emotional growth in children with ADHD is 30% slower as compared to their non-ADD peers.
2. One fourth of children with ADHD have staid erudition disabilities inclusive of oral expression, listening ability, reading conception and/or math.
3. 65% of children with ADHD display problems in disobedience or problems with power figures. This can take in verbal antagonism and anger tantrums.
4. 75% of boys identified with ADD/ADHD have hyperactivity.
5. 60% of girls who have ADD/ADHD have hyperactivity.
6. 50% of children with ADHD have trouble sleeping.
7. Teenagers with ADHD have approximately four times as many traffic credentials as non-ADD/ADHD drivers. They are said to have four times as many car accidents and are seven times more probable to have a second accident.
8. 21% of teens with ADHD, on regular basis skip school and about 35% give up on school before finishing high school.
9. About 45% of children with ADHD get suspended from school at least once.
10. 30% of children with ADHD at times repeat a year in school