Furthermore, differences in attention profiles between children with prenatal alcohol exposure with or without a diagnosis of ADHD have been found to vary depending on gender. In a study investigating the effect of ADHD diagnosis on a sample of boys and girls with prenatal alcohol exposure, girls with FASD and ADHD showed significantly impaired ability to sustain attention and encode information compared to other girls with FASD without a diagnosis of ADHD, while boys with FASD and ADHD were significantly better than their non-ADHD counterparts in sustaining attention (Herman, et al., 2008).
