Jornal Internacional de Saúde Mental de Emergência e Resiliência Humana

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A Study of Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder (ADHD) Problem of Dyslexic Children

Zeenat Khan

The ADHD and Dyslexia both hamper the learning ability of children in classroom. An estimated of 15.99% of Dyslexic children are found in every classroom. In classroom 5.60% of the children are ADHD children in the classroom. The study was undertaken to investigate the correlation of dyslexia and ADHD in school going children. A Survey method was used and sample of 963 students were selected through random sampling technique. The SDTD-J test by Dr. Khan Zeenat and S.B. Dandegaonkar was used for identifying the percentage of dyslexic children in classroom and James E. Gilliam test was used for identifying the percentage of ADHD children in the classroom. The findings also showed that there 35.06% of the dyslexic children also have ADHD problems.