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Commentary on: Hollingdale J, Woodhouse E, Tibber MS et al. The cumulative impact of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism and intellectual disability for young people. J Intellectual Disability Research 2024;
Implications for practice and research
Neurodevelopmental conditions frequently occur in groups, rather than as single entities. Awareness of this and the cumulative effects they can have on a person’s functioning is vital to providing the person with optimal healthcare.
Further research is needed to better understand the factors that modify these cumulative effects.
Context
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism disorder and intellectual disability (ID) are increasingly identified, and the co-occurrence of these and other social-emotional conditions has raised awareness that treatment of people with multiple diagnoses becomes more complex. Hollingdale and colleagues1 have examined this and begun to identify factors that modify and moderate the cumulative impact on functioning. As the number of these co-occurring conditions increases, they …
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Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.