| Summary: | A quantitave study was done on children who were diagnosed with Attention
Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders in primary schools. The main aim was
to measure IQ and to find out if there are indicators of organicity. The
hypotheses of the study were as follows: (i) Children diagnosed with ADHD
will obtain lower scores on IQ tests than children not diagnosed with
ADHD; (ii) Children diagnosed with ADHD have some form of
neurological deficit or organicity The study consisted of a sample 25
children who were diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity
Disorders and the children who were never diagnosed with the disorder. The
sample and the control group range from the age of six ( 6) to 13 years. Data
was collected using Bendor Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Senior South
African Individual Scale Revised. Descriptive Statistics, Chi-square Test and
Mann-Whitney Test were used to determine the difference between the
sample and the control group.
The results indicated that there is significant difference between children
with ADHD and the control group on both verbal and non-verbal IQ tests.
This means that children who were diagnosed with ADHD scored lower on
measures "of IQ. The differences may have been due to IQ. or the ADHD
group was distracted enough to perform significantly worse on reading,
spelling, mathematics, comprehension and written tasks. The results on the
Chi-square indicated that there is a relationship between the presence and
ADHD and organicity. The findings in this study will aid teachers and
parents (especially in African communities), to find out more about the
children who they think are just problematic children.
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A quantitative study was done on children who were diagnosed with Attention
Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders in primary schools. The main aim was
to measure IQ and to find out if there are indicators of organicity. The
hypotheses of the study were as follows: (i) Children diagnosed with ADHD
will obtain lower scores on IQ tests than children not diagnosed with
ADHD; (ii) Children diagnosed with ADHD have some form of
neurological deficit or organicity The study consisted of a sample 25
children who were diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity
Disorders and the children who were never diagnosed with the disorder. The
sample and the control group range from the age of six ( 6) to 13 years. Data
was collected using Bendor Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Senior South
African Individual Scale Revised. Descriptive Statistics, Chi-square Test and
Mann-Whitney Test were used to determine the difference between the
sample and the control group.
The results indicated that there is significant difference between children
with ADHD and the control group on both verbal and non-verbal IQ tests.
This means that children who were diagnosed with ADHD scored lower on
measures "of IQ. The differences may have been due to IQ. or the ADHD
group was distracted enough to perform significantly worse on reading,
spelling, mathematics, comprehension and written tasks. The results on the
Chi-square indicated that there is a relationship between the presence and
ADHD and organicity. The findings in this study will aid teachers and
parents (especially in African communities), to find out more about the
children who they think are just problematic children. === M.Soc.Sc. (Clinical Psychology) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2006
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