Executive Functioning in Children With Developmental Dyslexia

Executive functioning in adults and children with developmental dyslexia.

The performance of developmentally dyslexic children and adults was studied upon a range of tasks that involved executive functioning. Both adult and child samples of dyslexics were found to under-perform on the group-embedded figures test. This test required the identification of constituent parts from within complex visual arrays, with good performance necessitating the inhibition of the proc...

Anatomical Correlates of Executive Functioning in Children with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Dyslexia

Executive functions in developmental dyslexia

The present study was aimed at investigating different aspects of Executive Functions (EF) in children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD). A neuropsychological battery tapping verbal fluency, spoonerism, attention, verbal shifting, short-term and working memory was used to assess 60 children with DD and 65 with typical reading (TR) abilities. Compared to their controls, children with DD showed de...

Visual control in children with developmental dyslexia.

PURPOSE To assess binocular control in children with dyslexia. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 26 children who were submitted to a set of ophthalmologic and visual tests. RESULTS In the dyslexic children less eye movement control in voluntary convergence and unstable binocular fixation was observed. CONCLUSION The results support the hypothesis that developmental dyslexia might present...

Effectiveness of Audiovisual Stimulation on Executive Function in Children with High-functioning Autism

Objectives: Autism is one subsets of pervasive developmental disorders that are characterized by abnormal behaviors and verbal communication. In recent years, the reason for this communication disorder has been developed for determining executive function. The current study investigated the feasibility of audiovisual stimulation intervention focused on enhancing executive function in children w...