Interference Effect and Reading Skills in Children with Attention Disorders

• Authors: Okuniewska Hanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Aim of this study was to examine the performance on Polish experimental version of classical Stroop test in 36 ADHD-C children in comparison with 35 healthy children matched for age and IQ WISC-R. It was hypothesized that children with ADHD will exhibit diminished ability to control interference and will make more errors than their healthy counterparts. In contradictory with expectations, there was showed little if any evidence for specific deficit in interference control in this ADHD sample. A remarkable finding of this study was to demonstrate the developmental differences in reading skills in age range 8-11 years between typically developing children and ADHD group which displays a virtually no progress in reading automaticity and color naming speed over the period.

Keywords

EN

ADHD-C; INTERFERENCE CONTROL; READING; SCHOOL CHILDREN; STROOP TEST

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 88-95
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Okuniewska Hanna

• Hanna Okuniewska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Psychologii, ul. Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warszawa, Poland

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA075417

DOI

10.2478/s10059-009-0019-x