ReviewNeuropsychology review2012
Assessment of attention in preschoolers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Adaptations of the Walking Corsi Test (WalCT) for 2- and 3-year-old preterm and term-born toddlers: A preliminary study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Preliminary Study of the Applicability of Software in the Investigation of Sustained Auditory Attention.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2022Article
- Psychometric Properties of Attention Measures in Young Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Preliminary Findings.Journal of pediatric neuropsychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the past two decades, there has been an increased interest in the assessment and treatment of preschool children presenting with concerns about attention problems. This article reviews the research and clinical literature involving assessment of attention and related skills in the preschool years. While inattention among preschoolers is common, symptoms alone do not necessarily indicate a disorder, and most often represent a normal variation in typical preschool child development. Thus, accurate identification of "disordered" attention in preschoolers can be challenging, and development of appropriate, norm-referenced tests of attention for preschoolers is also difficult. The current review suggests that comprehensive assessment of attention and related functions in the preschool child should include thorough review of the child's history, planned observations, and formal psychometric testing. The three primary methods of psychometric assessment that have been used to characterize attentional functioning in preschool children include performance-based tests, structured caregiver interviews, and rating scales (parent, teacher, and clinician). Among performance-based methods for measurement of attention in the preschool years, tests have been developed to assess sustained attention, selective (focused) attention, span of attention (encoding/manipulation), and (top-down) controlled attention--including freedom from distractibility and set shifting. Many of these tests remain experimental in nature, and review of published methods yields relatively few commercially available, nationally normed tests of attention for preschoolers, and an overall dearth of reliability and validity studies on the available measures.
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