Hannah Kirk|Kylie M. Gray|Deborah M. Riby|John Taffe|Kim Cornish
Visual attention and academic performance in children with developmental disabilities and behavioural attention deficits
Monash University|Monash University|Durham University|Monash University|Monash University
despite welldocumented attention deficits children intellectual developmental disabilities idd distinctions across types attention problems association academic attainment fully explored study examines visual attention capacities inattentivehyperactive behaviours 77 children aged 4 11 years idd elevated behavioural attention difficulties children autism spectrum disorder asd n 23 syndrome ds n 22 nonspecific intellectual disability nsid n 32 completed computerized visual search vigilance paradigms addition parents teachers completed rating scales inattention hyperactivity concurrent associations attention abilities early literacy numeracy skills also examined children completed measures receptive vocabulary phonological abilities cardinality skills expected results indicated groups relatively comparable levels inattentivehyperactive behaviours rated parents teachers however extent visual attention deficits varied result group namely children ds poorer visual search vigilance abilities children asd nsid significant associations visual attention difficulties poorer literacy numeracy skills observed regardless group collectively findings demonstrate children idd present homogenous behavioural attention difficulties cognitive level subtle profiles attentional problems delineated