The WISC-Ⅲ performance of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• Main Authors: Hsin-Chu Yu, 余信珠
• Other Authors: Pei-Yung Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97147140479815123438

碩士 === 中原大學 === 心理學研究所 === 91 === Abstract This research applies Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -Third Edition, (WISC-III) Chinese Version to evaluate the performance of Attention Deficient / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to help in clinical diagnosis of possible domestic module. The subjects are 42 males and 2 females, age 6 to 13 years old, diagnosed as ACHD-C by specialized doctors. To compare the results with domestic norm finds ADHD children have significant lower scores in Coding and Symbol Search of Chinese WISC-III. This is not completely consistent with foreign research of ADHD-children in WISC-III test have poorest performance in Coding and Digit Span. The FIQ and VIQ have no significant differences with domestic norm. The PIQ has reached significant difference (P<.05). The Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization and Freedom from Distractibility of Index Scores have not had significant difference with domestic norm. There is only Processing Speed of Index Score reached significant difference. This is again inconsistent with foreign research of ADHD children’s performance in WISC-III have Freedom from Distractibility and Processing Speed reached significant difference when compared with norm. This could be related to domestic ADHD children’s performance of Digit Span and Arithmetric have not reached significant difference when comparing with norm. There is only 6.7 % of ACID group among domestic complete or partial ADHD children. This is significantly lower than foreign result of 39.7% ACID group of ADHD sample in WISC-III. Therefore to apply ACID group as a reference for ADHD diagnosis could be possibly incorrect. The foreign ADHD has reached 84% and domestic sample reached 80% in newly added SCAD group in WISC-III to minus PO with result more scoring than 1. These are higher than foreign normal sample of 48%, hence could be a more reliable group in diagnosing domestic ADHD children.