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Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, doi:10.1093/arclin/acp032
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The Canonical Relationship Between Sensory-Motor Functioning and Cognitive Processing in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Andrew S. Davisa,*, Lisa A. Passa, W. Holmes Fincha, Raymond S. Deana and Richard W. Woodcockb

a Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA
b Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA

* Corresponding author at: Department of Educational Psychology, Ball State University, Teachers College Room 515, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. Tel.: +1-765-285-8508; fax: +1-765-285-3653. E-mail address: davis{at}bsu.edu (A.S. Davis)


  Abstract

Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) typically exhibits a pattern of behavioral deficits, impairment in academic achievement, and cognitive processing, and presents with sensory-motor deficits. This study examined the relationships between sensory-motor tasks, cognitive processing, and academic achievement for a group of 67 children with ADHD. Strong canonical correlations emerged between sensory-motor functioning and academic achievement (.93) and sensory-motor functioning and cognitive processing (.98). An analysis of the redundancy coefficient showed that sensory-motor skills accounted for 65% of the variance in the achievement variables and 31% of the variance in the cognitive processing variables. The strong relationship between sensory-motor skills and higher order cognitive processes indicates that early assessment of sensory-motor skills may be useful in the identification of subsequent deficits in academic performance. Neuropsychologists should carefully consider the contribution of sensory-motor functioning to the more widely studied and assessed constructs of academic, behavioral, and emotional problems in children with ADHD.

Keywords ADHD; Alzheimer's disease; Autism/pervasive developmental disorders; Cerebrovascular disease/accident and stroke; Dementia; Developmental and learning disabilities; Epilepsy; Executive functions; Gender effects

Accepted: June 11, 2009

{dagger} The Dean-Woodcock Sensory Motor Battery was co-authored by Drs. Raymond S. Dean and Richard E. Woodcock who have an interest in this test. It is published by the Riverside Publishing Company.


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