Patrícia Aparecida Zuanetti, Marina Dias Macedo de Melo Avezum, Marita Iannazzo Ferretti, Angela Cristina Pontes-Fernandes, Marina Estima Neiva Nunes, Nelson Macedo Liporaci, Marisa Tomoe Hebihara Fukuda, Ana Paula Andrade Hamad
Development of language and arithmetic skills: risk and protective factors. Comparative cross-sectional study
Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
clinical practice preschool neuropsychology assumes assessment tools measuring underlying neuropsychological functions functions negatively impacted early life neurological injury disease disorder study hypothesized general intellectual capacity specific cognitive skills broad neuropsychological domains specific subdomains within broader clusters would differentiable preschoolage clinical population using neuropsychological data 580 children 6 71 months seen clinical neuropsychological evaluation preschool infant neuropsychological testing pint clinic exploratory factor analyses efa conducted results onefactor model provided good fit considering verbal nonverbal adaptive functions consideration one versus twofactor solutions broad neuropsychological domains indicated 2factor solution provided significantly better fit data factor 1 defined motor language nonverbal reasoning abilities factor 2 defined inhibitory control attention consideration specific neuropsychological functions also supported 2factor solution factor 1 thinking defined nonverbal reasoning receptive language expressive language factor 2 processing defined impulse control inhibitory control inattention visualmotor integration visuoconstructional abilities motor skills crossloaded onto factors secondary analyses suggest models provide best fit preschoolaged children 70 overall intellectual functioning comorbid medical diagnosis clinical sample preschoolage children neuropsychological assessment data appears assess general level intellectual capacity functioning differentiation assessing thinking knowledge reasoning skills processing cognitive attention processing information considered clinically next steps include recent clinical sample replication consideration whether neuropsychological profiles detectable preschoolage range whether results early life assessment predictive future functioning