Learning,Attention, Writing,and Processing Speed in Typical Children and Children with ADHD,Autism, Anxiety,Depression, and Oppositional-Defiant Disorder |
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| Authors: | Susan Dickerson Mayes Susan L Calhoun |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry , The Penn State College of Medicine , Hershey, PA, USA smayes@psu.edu;3. Department of Psychiatry , The Penn State College of Medicine , Hershey, PA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Learning, attention, graphomotor, and processing speed scores were analyzed in 149 typical control children and 886 clinical children with normal intelligence. Nonsignificant differences were found between control children and children with anxiety, depression, and oppositional-defiant disorder. Control children performed better than children with ADHD and autism in all areas. Children with ADHD and autism did not differ, except that children with ADHD had greater learning problems. Attention, graphomotor, and speed weaknesses were likely to coexist, the majority of children with autism and ADHD had weaknesses in all three areas, and these scores contributed significantly to the prediction of academic achievement. |
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| Keywords: | attention deficit learning disability dysgraphia processing speed academic achievement ADHD anxiety depression autism Asperger syndrome oppositional-defiant disorder |
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