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Julia B. Barrón-Martínez; Judith Salvador-Cruz – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: The aim was to explore the executive function profile of a group of Mexican people with Down syndrome (DS) aged 12-30 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aim: To analyse the relationships between mental, chronological age and eight domains of executive function. Method: Participants were 42 people with DS with a chronological age (CA)…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Down Syndrome, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kamal Parhoon; Frederick L. Coolidge; Hamid Alizadeh; Hadi Parhoon; Apeksha Srivastava – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2024
Objective: This study investigated the effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation Training (CRT) on executive functions, problem solving, and attention in students with a specific learning disorder (SLD). Method: Forty-two SLD students from the third to sixth grade (8-12 years old) were randomly assigned to 16 sessions of CRT (n = 21) or to a control (n =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Restructuring, Grade 3
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Jung-Chi Chang; Meng-Chuan Lai; Shu-Sen Chang; Susan Shur-Fen Gau – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors. However, little research delineates the temporal and mechanistic associations between potential risk factors and suicidality in autistic individuals. We assessed 129 autistic and 121 age-matched and sex-assigned-at-birth-matched…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Suicide, Children
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Tasmia Hai; Rose Swansburg; Cynthia K. Kahl; Hannah Frank; Kayla Stone; Jean-François Lemay; Frank P. MacMaster – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2022
Objective: We investigated the right Superior Frontal Gyrus (right-SFG) and Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) in children with ADHD and their clinical relevance with Executive Function (EF) and ADHD symptom severity. Methods: About 26 children with ADHD and 24 typically developing children (TDC; 7--16 years) underwent Magnetic Resonance Imaging…
Descriptors: Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Brain, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Walczak-Kozlowska, Tamara; Mankowska, Aleksandra; Chrzan-Detkos, Magdalena; Harciarek, Michal – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Recent studies indicate that premature children are at risk for difficulties with cognitive development and have increased incidence of ADHD as well as other behavioral disorders. Although the exact mechanism accounting for these children's neuropsychological abnormalities is unknown, there is evidence to suggest that the cognitive and behavioral…
Descriptors: Attention, Premature Infants, Preschool Children, Cognitive Development
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Milkova, Eva; Pekarkova, Simona – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The presented study focuses on children aged from 5 to 6.5 who attend Czech kindergartens. Its purpose is to explore a potential positive impact of an educational game application on malleability of children's spatial skills through the application usage. The research was conducted as a pedagogical experiment in which the pre-test and post-test…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Educational Games
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Chou, Chien-Chih; Chen, Kuan-Chou; Huang, Mei-Yao; Tu, Hsin-Yu; Huang, Chung-Ju – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2020
Purpose: This study determines the effect of movement games on executive function among overweight children. Methods: Forty-four overweight children received an intervention of movement games, and 40 overweight children participated in original physical education lessons. An intervention of movement games was conducted three times a week for 8…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Games, Executive Function, Obesity
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Ziermans, Tim; de Bruijn, Ymke; Dijkhuis, Renee; Staal, Wouter; Swaab, Hanna – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Reduced empathy and alexithymic traits are common across the autism spectrum, but it is unknown whether this is also true for intellectually advanced adults with autism spectrum disorder. The aim of this study was to examine whether college students with autism spectrum disorder experience difficulties with empathy and alexithymia, and whether…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Empathy, College Students
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Das, J. P.; Samantaray, Swagatika – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) has been widely recognized as a reliable predictor of reading proficiency. Although RAN represents the speed of cognitive processing, there are few studies that have addressed RAN as a cognitive process in its own right Furthermore, RAN performance of ELL (English Language Learners) has been less frequently…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Executive Function, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yi-Ling Chien; Yueh-Ming Tai; Yen-Nan Chiu; Wen-Che Tsai; Susan Shur-Fen Gau – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The mediators of real-world executive functions in autism during the transition into adulthood are mainly unknown. This study aimed to identify the mediators for the behavioral and cognitive domains of real-world executive functions in late adolescent and young adult autistic populations. We followed up 289 autistic children (aged 11.6 ± 3.8, male…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Executive Function, Metacognition, Correlation
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Anderson, Kate J.; Henning, Tiffany J.; Moonsamy, Jasmin R.; Scott, Megan; du Plooy, Christopher; Dawes, Andrew R. L. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: The Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) assesses early learning programme outcomes in children aged 50-69 months. ELOM assesses gross motor development (GMD), fine motor coordination and visual motor integration (FMC & VMI), emergent numeracy and mathematics (ENM), cognition and executive functioning (CEF), and emergent literacy…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
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Kasirer, Anat; Mashal, Nira – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
This study focused on the cognitive abilities that contribute to creative metaphor generation. A concept explanation task was used to test conventional and novel (creative) metaphor generation. Conceptual fluency and similarities were measured using the Tel-Aviv Creativity Test (TACT). The main goal was to investigate how fluency of ideas and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Creative Thinking, Figurative Language, Concept Formation
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Sawaya, Helen; McGonigle-Chalmers, Maggie; Kusel, Iain – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Objectives: The aim of the study is to distinguish between perceptuomotor and cognitive inflexibility as the source of set-switching difficulties in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods: Seventeen adolescents with ASD and 17 neurotypical controls were presented with a computerized sequencing game using colored shapes. The sequence…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Palmqvist, Lisa; Danielsson, Henrik; Jönsson, Arne; Rönnberg, Jerker – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2020
Background: Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) show difficulties with everyday planning. A tablet-based training program for everyday planning may be a suitable intervention, but its feasibility must be evaluated. This study evaluated how behavior changes during training and if individuals with ID can use technology by themselves.…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Program Effectiveness, Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Development
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Tsermentseli, Stella; Kouklari, Evangelia-Chrysanthi – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at risk for high stress levels. Multiple child factors have been identified as predictors of stress in parents of children with ASD, but factors associated with stress in parents of children with ASD and comorbid intellectual disability (ASD-ID) are not well understood. This study…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Predictor Variables, Child Rearing, Mothers
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