Development of executive functioning in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and normal children:from perschool to the end of primary school

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Ameneh Karamshaii ¹ ( MA in Psychology and Exceptional Children Education )
Ahmad Abedi ² ( PhD Isfahan University Isfahan, Iran )

Received: 2015-07-10 Accepted : 2015-07-10 Published : 2014-12-22

Keywords: preschool, executive functioning, ADHD, primary school children,

Abstract :

This study aimed to investigate the development of executive functioning in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and normal children. Four hundred and twenty children (210 normal children, 210 ADHD children) were selected using multistage cluster random sampling .The participants completed the Connors Parental Questionnaire (Connors, 1997) and the NEPSY Tower Test (Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 1998). The results of two ways analysis of variance indicated significant differences in executive functioning between normal children and ADHD children in different age groups. The ADHD children performances were significantly lower than normal children. The findings suggest that the developmental trend of executive functioning in normal children increase with age.