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Ali Kandeger; Hasan Ali Güler; Münise Seda Özaltin; Ömer Bayirli; Hacer Söylemez; Elif Yildiz; Bengi Semerci – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Introduction: Our study aimed to compare the sociodemographic, diagnostic, clinical, and self-report scale data of adults diagnosed with ADHD in childhood/adolescence versus adulthood and to identify risk factors associated with delayed/missed diagnosis for ADHD. Method: Sociodemographic, clinical, and diagnostic data of 214 adults with ADHD,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Clinical Diagnosis
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Kelsey Harkness; Signe Bray; Chelsea M. Durber; Deborah Dewey; Kara Murias – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Attention and executive function (EF) dysregulation are common in a number of disorders including autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Better understanding of the relationship between indirect and direct measures of attention and EF and common neurodevelopmental diagnoses may contribute to more efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Executive Function
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Fleisher, Lisa S.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1984
The article analyzes research used to support the notion of selective attention deficits in learning disabled children. Conceptual and methodological issues involved are explored, indicating that evidence of selective attention deficits are at best inconclusive and that using these findings as the basis for classification and intervention is…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
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Vietze, Peter M.; Coates, Deborah – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1986
Seven techniques for measuring information processing in infants are proposed to aid in the early identification of mental retardation. The techniques are based on conditioning, attentional, and manual exploration paradigms and could be combined into an assessment battery more valid than current infant IQ tests in predicting later disability.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Conditioning
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Aaron, P. G.; Joshi, R. M.; Palmer, Hyyon; Smith, Natasha; Kirby, Edward – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
This paper presents a model of differential diagnosis of attentional problems and reading disability that uses intra-individual differences in performance of tasks that vary in their requirement of sustained attention such as listening comprehension (high attention requirement) and reading comprehension (lower attention requirement). The validity…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Disability Identification
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Loesch, Danuta Z.; Huggins, Richard M.; Hagerman, Randi J. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2004
Data on the relationships between cognitive and physical phenotypes, and a deficit of fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene-specific protein product, FMRP, are presented and discussed in context with earlier findings. The previously unpublished results obtained, using standard procedures of regression and correlations, showed highly…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Intelligence Quotient, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries