A Comparison of 13-year-old Boys with Attention Deficit And/or Reading Disorder on Neuropsychological Measures

Overview

Journal J Abnorm Child Psychol

Publisher Springer

Date 1989 Feb 1

PMID 2926022

Citations 9

Authors

R McGee

S Williams

T Moffitt

J Anderson

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Abstract

This study compared 13-year-old boys with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and/or reading disability (RD), and controls with neither disorder on a battery of verbal and nonverbal neuropsychological measures. The aim was to examine whether ADD was associated with a qualitatively distinct pattern of deficits compared with RD. None of the measures differentiated the boys with ADD-only from the controls; the only deficit associated with ADD was slightly lower IQ. RD, on the other hand, was associated with deficits in memory and verbal skills.

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