Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
21 Feb 2004 19:46 PST
Boring? Never!
Too difficult? Hah!
But this one *is* a challenge, I must admit.
From a first look, there does not appear to be a great deal of
evaluative literature on which types of tests are best suited for the
types of children you describe in your question, and what literature
is out there is not always recent. For instance, I found the
following:
Diagnosis of ADHD Among Gifted Children in Relation to KEDI-WISC and
T.O.V.A. Performance.
Chae, Paul Kyuman; Ji-Hye Kim; Kyung-Sun Noh.
Gifted Child Quarterly
Summer2003, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p192, 10p, 8 charts;
Abstract: Evaluates the correlation between intelligence and a
Continuous Performance Test that assesses attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among gifted children (GC). Focus of
characteristics of attention in GC with ADHD; Finding that GC
performed better than non-GC with the Test of Variables of Attention;
Absence of correlation between intelligence and response time.
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Fetal alcohol exposure and attention: Moving beyond ADHD.
Coles, Claire D.
Alcohol Research & Health, Vol 25(3), 2001. pp. 199-203
Abstract: Examined the relationship between fetal alcohol exposure
(FAE) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 87
alcohol-exposed children (average age 7.63 yrs) with and without fetal
alcohol syndrome (FAS) or FAE and 27 children diagnosed with ADHD were
assessed using either neuropsychological criteria or the traditional
clinical methods of observing behavior, parent and teacher checklists,
and cognitive task evaluation. Results show that FAS-FAE Ss and ADHD
Ss attained similar scores on intelligence tests...
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Intelligence testing of hospitalized, minority, inner-city children
and adolescents: Adjusting the standard for comparison.
Soffer, Stephen L.;
Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences &
Engineering, Vol 58(1-B), Jul 1997. pp. 0428.
Abstract: Considerable research has focused on intelligence tests to
demonstrate that they are biased against children and adolescents in
the cultural minority...The present study compared a sample of 204
inner-city, mostly minority children and adolescents on a psychiatric
inpatient unit to the WISC-III national standardization sample...
Subjects with a diagnosis of ADHD attained significantly higher mean
Full Scale IQ scores than subjects with either a Conduct
Disorder/Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Mood Disorder diagnosis...
Overall, the results established that inner-city children and
adolescents on an inpatient psychiatry unit scored more than one
standard deviation below the national average on the WISC-III, and
indicated the importance of referring to other sources of data, in
addition to IQ scores, when making placement decisions for these
children.
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There were a few other studies...not many, though
A broader search on "intelligence", without an explicit focus on
testing, returned a lot more results, e.g.:
Performance of girls with ADHD and comparison girls on the
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure: Evidence for executive processing
deficits.
Sami, Nilofar; Carte, Estol T.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.
Child Neuropsychology, Vol 9(4), Dec 2003. pp. 237-254.
Abstract: In spite of a multitude of scoring approaches, the ability
of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) to measure executive
functions versus grapho-motor skill is still open to question. To
clarify this issue, we examined the performance of an ethnically and
socioeconomically diverse sample of preadolescent girls
(ADHD-Combined, n=93; ADHD-Inattentive, n=47; and comparison girls,
n=88) on the ROCF, scoring both immediate copy and delayed recall
performance...The major finding is that only EPS differentiated girls
with ADHD from comparison girls (a) on both immediate and delayed
performance and (b) with stringent statistical control of Performance
IQ, fine motor speed, and performance on the Porteus Mazes (as well as
comorbidities), with effect sizes in the medium range...
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Do any of these sound useful to you? If so, I could probalby cull out
about 10 or so studies that pertain to your modified question (there
seems to be very little literature regarding aboriginal populations).
The most I could post would be abbreviated abstracts, as in the
examples above (in order to protect copyright).
However, I am NOT in a position to really evalute/comment on the
studies themselves, as I just don't have enough of a background in
this area to feel comfortable in that task.
Would that suit as an answer to your question? Let us know how you
would like us to proceed.
