Hi group members,
Here is an interesting article that I read on http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1983954#ixzz34oRMv3PG / about the link between parents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their children with ADHD or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It reports on research done at Florida International University in Miami that was recently published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, This study is the first to find that mothers with ADHD are six times more likely to have children diagnosed with ADHD and two-and-a-half times more likely to have children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) than moms who do not have ADHD. This link was not previously known and may be genetically based or environmentally based.
ADHD and autism are the two most common neurodevelopmental disorders observed in children. This investigation is one of the first large, population-based studies to examine the degree to which ADHD and ASD are transmitted in the same families. The researchers relied on electronic medical data for more than 46,000 women and children between the ages of 6 and 12 in the United States.
Continuing research on this topic will focus on fathers with ADHD.
How can this finding affect adult educators?
Rochelle Kenyon, SME