Children receiving a reading program showed greater gains than controls on multiple standardized measures of reading and related skills (regardless of medication status)…
Key takeaways
- New study shows that stimulant medication had positive effects on hyperactive symptoms in ADHD children compared to non-medicated group. The stimulant revealed no effect on reading.
- However, a group of children-both medicated and non-medicated- in this trial received a reading program and the results showed that these children outdid the non-tutored children on multiple measures of reading skills.
- Multiple-blind procedures were used for medication and placebo so the study appears to have been rigorous. Clearly, behavioral and social skills and reading skills are not very related in terms of treatment and need to be approached differently.
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