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Cognitive function is one of the most fundamental psychological functions that play a significant role in person’s daily life. Impairment cognitive can impacts functioning and overall performance person. A digital application could be an accessible convenient method for effective evaluation cognition. The proposed Assessment Digital Smart Tool (CADST) evaluates Attention (ATT) Working Memory (W...

Objective: This study aimed to compare the motor skills of children with specific learning disorders (SLD) those typically developing children, controlling for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. Second, we examine relationship between and children’s academic achievement. Method: The sample consisted 57 SLD (63.2% males, mean age=9.52±0.94), 30 as a control group (66.7% ag...

Background Previous studies investigating neuropsychological functioning of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have only analysed certain abilities, such as executive functions or language. While comprehensive assessment of the neuropsychological profile of children with ASD has been the focus of recent research, most of the published evidence originates from single centres. Though st...

AIM To explore and validate the best returned latent class solution for reading and writing subtests from the Academic Performance Test (TDE). SAMPLE A total of 1,945 children (6-14 years of age), who answered the TDE, the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA), and had an estimated intelligence quotient (IQ) higher than 70, came from public schools in São Paulo (35 schools) and Porto ...

There exist few clinical assessments for limb apraxia, a disorder of learned, purposeful action, that enable clinicians to distinguish pathological from normal variance in limb praxis performance. We describe a theoretically motivated, comprehensive assessment battery for limb apraxia and present control comparison scores for 16 older healthy normal individuals on subtests designed to distingui...

BACKGROUND Irish educational psychologists frequently use the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fourth UK Edition (WISC-IVUK ; Wechsler, 2004, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth UK Edition, London, UK, Harcourt Assessment) in clinical assessments of children with learning difficulties. Unfortunately, reliability and validity studies of the WISC-IVUK standardization sample ...