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Attention disorder in a group of young Down's syndrome children
Author(s) -
GREEN J. M.,
DENNIS J.,
BENNETS L. A.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1989.tb01458.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , attention deficit disorder , developmental psychology , attention deficit , conduct disorder , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , clinical psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
. Thirteen of the 14 Down's syndrome children in Oxfordshire aged 2‐4 years were studied. Quantified attention deficit was recorded for four children in a standardized test situation. This deficit did not correlate with mental age or with social or medical attributes. Temperamental traits did not identify the attention disordered children as ‘difficult’. Parental ratings of behaviour revealed a preponderance of conduct‐type disorder and problems of parental control among them. There was a precise inverse relationship between a child's ability to engage and maintain attention and measured examiner activity in the test situation. The implications of this for the interactive consequences of this type of attention disorder are discussed.