Adaptive skills are useful for evaluating the effect of pharmacological treatment in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Abstract

This study was nonrandomised and only analysed within-group changes in a small number of participants. However, the findings suggest that four to five years of stimulant treatment had markedly positive effects on adaptive functioning in more than half of the school-age children with ADHD.

Adaptive functioning in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: relationship to cognition, behavior, and magnetic resonance imaging

“…Adaptive functioning is a multifaceted construct that encompasses an individual's effectiveness in achieving age‐appropriate maturity, judgment and reasoning, social sensibility, and personal independence. Adaptability affects all areas of early childhood development and has been closely linked to long‐term functional outcomes for many neurodevelopmental disorders, such as intellectual disability (wherein deficits in adaptive behavior are, by definition, criteria for diagnosis), autism spectrum disorder, and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) . While a few reports have demonstrated reductions in adaptive functioning in children with NF1 compared to unaffected siblings and peers, very little is currently known about the adaptive behavior profiles in this at‐risk population.…”