Childhood Mental Disability Rates Up, Study Finds [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/21/144:00 AM

Rates of developmental and mental disabilities -- ranging from speech problems to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- have jumped 21 percent among U.S. children, according to a new report.

Overall, parent-reported disabilities rose 16 percent -- from almost 5 million children to about 6 million between 2001 and 2011, said study author Dr. Amy Houtrow, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh.

[For more of this story, written by Kathleen Doheney, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...up-study-690812.html]

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