Cognitive Functioning in Children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with and without Comorbid Learning Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Jakobson, Angela; Kikas, Eve
Titel	Cognitive Functioning in Children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with and without Comorbid Learning Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning Disabilities, 40 (2007) 3, S.194-202 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2194
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Tests; Clinical Diagnosis; Hyperactivity; Discriminant Analysis; Control Groups; Attention Deficit Disorders; Learning Disabilities; Cognitive Ability; Children; Psychomotor Skills; Comparative Analysis; Memory; Spatial Ability; Verbal Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Hyperaktivität; Diskriminanzanalyse; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHS; Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Hyperaktivitäts-Störung; Aufmerksamkeitsstörung; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Denkfähigkeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Gedächtnis; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Mündliche Leistung
Abstract	This study attempted to determine whether children with the combined subtype of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impairments in cognitive functioning and motor skills. The specific effect of the comorbidity of learning disabilities (LD) was also investigated. A battery of cognitive tests was administered to 26 children with a clinical diagnosis of ADHD-combined subtype (ADHD/C), to 24 children with ADHD/C with a comorbid diagnosis of LD (ADHD/C+LD), and to 102 participants without disabilities, all between ages 7 and 10. The testing battery consisted of tasks assessing memory, visuospatial and verbal abilities, and fine motor skills. In general, the test results of children with ADHD/C were poorer than those of the control group but better than the results of children with a combined ADHD/C+LD diagnosis (with the exception of motor skills). The predictive accuracy of the testing battery tasks in children with ADHD/C and ADHD/C+LD was examined. The results of a standard procedure of discriminant function analyses revealed that the measures correctly classified 73.6% of the children. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10