Deficits in cognitive processes in children with ADHD

Pages: 1459-1462
Nishi Tripathi and Mahewash Hasan (Department of Psychology, Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHIATS), Allahabad, UP)

The present study in the area of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has attempted to identify core deficits associated with the cognitive functioning of the children having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as compared with their counterparts. The sample consisted of children having ADHD and children without ADHD with identical demographic information. Cognitive Assessment System was used to assess cognitive deficits in children with ADHD. The result showed that there was significant gender difference in prevalence of ADHD in children. It further depicts that ADHD is more prevalent among children belonging to age group of 12-14. Performance on cognitive assessment system revealed significant difference in performance of two scales, planning and attention whereas there was no significant difference on the performance of simultaneous processing and successive processing between the two groups. There was significant difference in the performance on full scale between children with and without ADHD. Therefore it could be concluded children with ADHD have cognitive dysfunction in planning and attention which could be strong predictors of ADHD in children.