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Direct linkNorvilitis, Jill M.; Fang, Ping – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2005
College students (n = 226) and teachers (n = 328) in the United States and China completed a 55-item questionnaire examining perceptions of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the two countries. Although a factor analysis yielded somewhat similar structures for the construct of ADHD, many differences emerged as well, with Chinese…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Getzel, Elizabeth Evans; Thoma, Colleen A. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This article describes the results of a series of focus group interviews conducted with postsecondary students with disabilities about the importance of self-determination in their success in those settings. Approximately 40% of the student participants identified a learning disability or attention deficit disorder as their primary disability. The…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
Mathers, Margaret E. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2006
This article reports some outcomes from an exploratory study that compares children diagnosed with ADHD and without language impairment with typically developing children for aspects of language use. Discourse analysis based on a systemic functional linguistics approach is applied to spoken and written samples from three different text types that…
Descriptors: Written Language, Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Spelling
Campbell, Linda E.; Daly, Eileen; Toal, Fiona; Stevens, Angela; Azuma, Rayna; Catani, Marco; Ng, Virginia; Van Amelsvoort, Therese; Chitnis, Xavier; Cutter, William; Murphy, Declan G. M.; Murphy, Kieran C. – Brain, 2006
In people with velo-cardio-facial syndrome [or 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22qDS)], a single interstitial deletion of chromosome 22q11.2 causes a wide spectrum of cognitive deficits ranging from global learning difficulties to specific cognitive deficits. People with 22qDS are also at high risk of developing attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Emotional Problems, Schizophrenia, Intelligence Quotient
Wells, Karen C.; Chi, Terry C.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Pfiffner, Linda; Nebel-Schwalm, Marie; Owens, Elizabeth B.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hoza, Betsy; Jensen, Peter S.; March, John; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Pelham, William E.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The present study examined treatment outcomes for objectively measured parenting behavior in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Five hundred seventy-nine ethnically and socioeconomically diverse children with ADHD-combined type (ages 7.0-9.9 years) and their parent(s) were recruited …
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Outcomes of Treatment
Scahill, Lawrence; McDougle, Christopher J.; Williams, Susan K.; Dimitropoulos, Anastasia; Aman, Michael G.; McCracken, James T.; Tierney, Elaine; Arnold, L. Eugene; Cronin, Pegeen; Grados, Marco; Ghuman, Jaswinder; Koenig, Kathleen; Lam, Kristen S. L.; McGough, James; Posey, David J.; Ritz, Louise; Swiezy, Naomi B.; Vitiello, Benedetto – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scales (CYBOCS) modified for pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs). Method: Raters from five Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network were trained to reliability. The modified scale (CYBOCS-PDD), which contains only…
Descriptors: Children, Severity (of Disability), Test Reliability, Behavior Disorders
Evans, Steven W.; Youngstrom, Eric – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
This column focuses on the valid, reliable, and useful measurement of treatment effects in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) treated in practice settings. The case is presented of Polly, an 11 year-old female who was evaluated and determined to have probably met diagnostic criteria for ADHD, combined…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Outcomes of Treatment
Download full textKennedy, Stephen; Treanor, Declan; O'Grady, Mary – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2008
This guide was developed by DAWN (Disability Advisors Working Network) in consultation with AHEAD (Association for Higher Education Access and Disability), Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland, Brainwave, DeafHear, Dyslexia Association of Ireland and the National Council for the Blind. This is an introductory guide and should be used as a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Higher Education, Guidelines, Teaching Methods
Graham, Linda J. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
To interrogate pedagogical discourses relating to child behaviour as "practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak" this paper features the analysis of three texts through the development and deployment of what might be called a poetics of pedagogical discourse. The principal text is a statement describing…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Disorders
McGaw, Sue; Shaw, Tom; Beckley, Kerry – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
This study identified and investigated the incidence of childhood trauma and psychopathology across a population of parents with intellectual disabilities (IDs) known to a parenting service in the United Kingdom over a 5-year period and examined the emotional and physical welfare of their children. Data were gathered from 49 parents with ID and 58…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Incidence, Mental Retardation
Orsmond, Gael I.; Lin, Ling-Yi; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2007
We examined types of disabilities in siblings from a large sample of families of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and the impact of another child with a disability on maternal and family well-being. The most frequent disabilities in siblings were attention and hyperactivity (4.6%) and autism spectrum (2.4%) disorders and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Siblings
Jordan, Dale R. – 1996
This book is designed to show teachers how to reach out to adults and adolescents with learning disabilities and employ specific strategies for helping them to compensate for the disabilities and acquire literacy skills. The ways in which specific differences in brain structure inhibit the mastery of reading, spelling, handwriting, phonics, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes
Raggio, Donald; And Others – 1994
The best procedure for the diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) remains fragmented. The diagnosis is frequently based on anecdotal information and rating scales completed by parents and teachers. A major drawback to a more objective diagnosis has been the absence of standardized test data generated by the child client. The…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Attention Span, Behavior Disorders
Stokeld, Cheryl L. – 1995
This paper reviews literature on the adult outcomes for children diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). It critiques methodological issues, including diagnostic definitions, research designs, sample characteristics, and assessment instruments. It examines the relationship of AD/HD to a variety of adult disorders and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Antisocial Behavior
Needleman, Herbert L. – 1992
Despite years of concern about the toxic effects of high lead exposure and recent knowledge about the less apparent effects of exposure to low doses of lead, a total of 3 to 4 million children in the United States are still being exposed to concentrations of lead that could compromise their cognitive and social development. This paper discusses:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Child Development, Child Health
