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ADHD. In addition to ADHD, inattentiveness can also be caused by poor nutrition, anxiety or lack of sleep, she said.Parents should start by talking with their child's pediatrician and determine the need to seek an evaluation by a psychologist, Schweitzer said.The study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests that attention problems can inhibit learning and that early onset psychiatric disorders are in part to blame for later failure in high school.Our study, along with others, shows that if children are going to harness their potential, they need to be able to focus and organize their thoughts, Schweitzer said.The results of the study are a call to arms for policy makers in education and health care, said study co-author Elizabeth Miller, a UC Davis assistant professor of pediatrics and a clinician at UC Davis Children's Hospital. One-third of all American children do not finish high school on time, Miller said.What that means is that you have people transitioning into adulthood without the advantages of the knowledge and skills usually acquired during high school, which impacts their future earning potential and well-being, Miller Rosetta Stone English V3
said.Providing school-based mental health professionals should be a priority for education policy makers, because classroom interventions, counseling and — in some cases — treatment for psychiatric disorders could mitigate these attention problems, Miller said.We really shouldn't be sweeping behavior problems in early elementary school under the rug,because there is a lot we can do, she said.The researchers said that early intervention to prevent teens from dropping out of high school and the serious long-term consequences of poor high school achievement should be a major focus for both education and public-health policy makers.More research is needed, however, to identify successful models of providing mental health services in school settings, Breslau said, and more long-term research is needed to find out what other factors come into play between kindergarten and the end of high school that affect scholastic performance.If we are going to make a difference in children's lives we need a whole lifespan perspective, Breslausaid.Other study authors include Kipling Rosetta Stone French V3
Bohnert of Michigan State University and Victoria Lucia of William Beaumont Hospitals of Michigan.The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and the UC Davis Children's Hospital Children's Miracle Network.