Can parent, teacher, and clinician behavioural ratings of preschoolers predict ADHD at age six?
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Her article, entitled “Reliable Ratings or Reading Tea Leaves: Can Parent, Teacher and Clinician Behavioral ratings at Preschoolers Predict ADHD at Age Six?”, published earlier this month in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, found that behaviour ratings during a child’s preschool years were most likely to be predictive of later outcomes when all three informants flagged a child for showing signs of ADHD.
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