Increased activity during the teaching of spelling words resulted in hyperactive children having greater difficulty than the normal children in distinguishing relevant tasks from the extraneous stimulation. (Ed.)

Hyperactive children were significantly more affected by both low and high appeal distractors than were the normal children. (Author)

Examines teacher factors in determining school-based treatment-outcome research for students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Discusses potential teacher factors that might be important to consider in compatibility equations, along with implications of variables for school-based assessment, intervention processes, and future…

Twelve learning disabled (LD), 12 learning disabled hyperactive (LDH) and 12 hyperactive (H) boys (6-11 years old) participated in an investigation of selective attention. Ss were asked to search for a target letter embedded within an array of noise letters. Two variations were included: one involving a simultaneous search for four possible target…

Examined was the time response effect of methylphenidate (Ritalin) on the learning task performance of 53 hyperactive children (mean age 10 years). Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. (CL)

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)

The study assessed task performance of 25 hyperactive and 22 normal children (six to ten years old) with and without within-task color, holding task complexity constant. (Author)

Seventeen active attention-problem elementary children were given copying tasks to determine whether they were more attracted to color stimulation than normal controls. Among other findings, results suggested that experimental children responded to tasks differently when color was used and that their performance was better with relevant color than…

The effects of feedback on the approaches of 20 hyperactive and 20 hypoactive children (ages 6 to 10) to a vigilance task were studied. Results showed that hyperactive Ss had more errors than hypoactive Ss under the feedback for correct responses condition and fewer errors under the feedback for false alarms condition. (PHR)

The effects of task-overlapping linguistic noise on activity and performance of hyperactive and control children were assessed. Results suggest that task difficulty may play a role in the effects of overlapping stimulation on both groups. (Author/GK)

A comparison between 59 first graders of high activity level and 61 of low activity level provided support for the developmental theory which suggests that language may be a compensatory factor in the cognitive functioning of hyperactive children. (CL)

A seven-year-old emotionally disturbed boy with some features of the hyperkinetic syndrome was placed on a double-blind placebo control program to assess the effects of psychoactive medications (Ritalin and Dexedrine) on academic and social behaviors. (Author)

In a memory search task with context recognition, three groups of children were examined: hyperactives, somewhat hyperactives, and controls. Both groups of hyperactive-rated children were slower in their cognitive processing than controls. (MP)

Examined front and right parietal lobe theories of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); subjects were 10- to 14-year-old boys with or without ADHD. Found that non-ADHD boys performed better on frontal- and parietal-domain tasks than unmedicated ADHD boys, unmedicated AHDH boys had greater impairments on frontal than parietal tasks, and…