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Deficits in attenti...
Deficits in attention, motor control and perception (DAMP): a simplified school entry examination.
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Landgren, M (author)
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Kjellman, B (author)
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- Gillberg, Christopher, 1950 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, Avdelningen för barn- och ungdomspsykiatri,Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Dept of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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- 2000
- 2000
- English.
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In: Acta Paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992). - 0803-5253. ; 89:3, s. 302-329
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- Objective: To suggest an empirically based school entry screening examination for the detection of deficits in attention, motor control and perception (DAMP) in 6-y-old children. Material and methods: A population-based cohort of 113 children, 6-7 y of age (62 with and 51 without DAMP), compared on measures of attention, motor functions, language and cognition. Results: Attention deficits were convincingly identified by both parents and paediatrician. The motor function tests clearly distinguished between the two groups. Linguistic and meta-linguistic tests demonstrated greater phonological processing difficulties in the DAMP group. The cognitive test revealed an overall lower IQ but no consistent characteristic pattern in the DAMP group. Conclusions: A simplified paediatric school entry examination test is suggested. Four motor tests (standing on one foot, Fog test, design copying and diadochokinesis) administered by the paediatrician, combined with a brief structured clinical observation and a structured parent interview, identified 80% of children with DAMP–and all those with severe DAMP–as well as a small number of false positives
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
- Classification
- Diagnosis
- Child
- Cognition Disorders
- Diagnosis
- Female
- Humans
- Language Disorders
- Diagnosis
- Male
- Mass Screening
- Perceptual Disorders
- Diagnosis
- Phonetics
- Population Surveillance
- Severity of Illness Index
- Students
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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