ArticleContemporary educational psychology2017
Executive Functioning Deficits Increase Kindergarten Children's Risk for Reading and Mathematics Difficulties in First Grade.
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- A Systematic Review of the Validity and Reliability of Assessment Tools for Executive Function and Adaptive Function Following Brain Pathology among Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Neuropsychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Does preschool children's self-regulation moderate the impacts of instructional activities? Evidence from a randomized intervention study.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2022Trial
- Relations Between Academic and Behavioral Adaptations: The Antecedent Effects of Executive Function.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- A Survey of Health Workers in Ghana and Nigeria on the Potential Burden and Local Assessment of Executive Dysfunction Among Children.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Pattern of Relationships of Speech and Language Deficits with Executive Functions, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Facets of Giftedness in Greek Preschool Children. A Preliminary Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Language Skills in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Why doesn't executive function training improve academic achievement? Rethinking individual differences, relevance, and engagement from a contextual framework.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2023Article
- Assessment Tools for Executive Function and Adaptive Function Following Brain Pathology Among Children in Developing Country Contexts: a Scoping Review of Current Tools.Neuropsychology review · 2022Article
- Neurodevelopmental disorders: An innovative perspectiveWorld journal of psychiatry · 2021Review
- Implications of Sensory Processing and Attentional Differences Associated With Autism in Academic Settings: An Integrative Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Examining Additive and Synergistic Relations Between Preschool Self-Regulation and Executive Function Skills: Predictions to Academic Outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The association of parent-reported executive functioning, reading, and math is explained by nature, not nurture.Developmental psychology · 2020Article
- Kindergarten Children's Executive Functions Predict Their Second-Grade Academic Achievement and Behavior.Child development · 2019Article
- Data-Driven Subtyping of Executive Function-Related Behavioral Problems in Children.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2018Article
- Do Chinese Children With Math Difficulties Have a Deficit in Executive Functioning?Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Elucidating Linkages of Executive Functioning to School Readiness Skill Gains: The Mediating Role of Behavioral Engagement in the PreK Classroom.Early childhood research quarterlyArticle
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Whether executive functioning deficits result in children experiencing learning difficulties is presently unclear. Yet evidence for these hypothesized causal relations has many implications for early intervention design and delivery. We used a multi-year panel design, multiple criterion and predictor variable measures, extensive statistical control for potential confounds including autoregressive prior histories of both reading and mathematics difficulties, and additional epidemiological methods to preliminarily examine these hypothesized relations. Results from multivariate logistic regression analyses of a nationally representative and longitudinal sample of 18,080 children (i.e., the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2011, or ECLS-K: 2011) indicated that working memory and, separately, cognitive flexibility deficits uniquely increased kindergarten children's risk of experiencing reading as well as mathematics difficulties in first grade. The risks associated with working memory deficits were particularly strong. Experimentally-evaluated, multi-component interventions designed to help young children with reading or mathematics difficulties may also need to remediate early deficits in executive function, particularly in working memory.
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