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Peer reviewedZentall, Sydney S. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
The performance of 20 hyperactive and 26 comparison elementary-school boys on a spelling recognition task found that color facilitates attention to detail. Hyperactive children who practiced the task with all black letters first and color added later out-performed comparison children. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Color, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
