Links between musical beat perception and phonological skills for autistic children
This study aimed to explore the relationship between musical beat perception and phonological awareness skills of children on the autism spectrum with a wide range of cognitive abilities. A total of 21 autistic children between the ages of 6 to 11 years old (M = 8.9, SD = 1.5) with full scale IQs ranging from 52 to 105 (M = 74, SD = 16) completed a beat perception and a phonological awareness task. Results revealed that phonological awareness and beat perception are positively correlated for children on the autism spectrum. Findings lend support to the potential use of beat and rhythm perception as a screening tool for ear...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - April 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Charlotte Rimmer Hadas Dahary Eve-Marie Quintin Source Type: research
Beyond the rubicon: a continuum approach to investigating the impact of ADHD like characteristics on everyday executive function in children with Tourette Syndrome
This study adopted a continuum approach to the consideration of this ADHD influence and examined the extent to which the difference in parental reported executive functions between children with Tourette syndrome (TS) or typically developing children could be mediated by a concurrent group difference in the possession of sub-referral levels of ADHD-like characteristics. A total of 146 children, 58 with reported TS diagnosis, participated. Parental report measures of ecological executive functioning, the Child Executive Functioning Inventory, and the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale were employed. The analyses...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - April 27, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Colin J Hamilton Karen Harrison Source Type: research
Neural and behavioral indicators of cognitive control in preschoolers with and without prenatal opioid exposure
Child Neuropsychol. 2023 Apr 18:1-19. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2023.2196397. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrenatal opioid exposure is one consequence of the opioid epidemic, but effects on child development remain poorly understood. There is emerging evidence that children exposed to opioids in utero exhibit elevated emotional and behavioral problems, which may be partially due to alterations in cognitive control. Using multiple methods (i.e., neuropsychological, behavioral, and event-related potential [ERP] assessments), the present study examined differences in emotional, behavioral, and cognitive control difficulties in p...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - April 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Emilia F C árdenas Kaylin E Hill Elizabeth Estes Sanjana Ravi Andrew E Molnar Kathryn L Humphreys Autumn Kujawa Source Type: research
Neural and behavioral indicators of cognitive control in preschoolers with and without prenatal opioid exposure
Child Neuropsychol. 2023 Apr 18:1-19. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2023.2196397. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrenatal opioid exposure is one consequence of the opioid epidemic, but effects on child development remain poorly understood. There is emerging evidence that children exposed to opioids in utero exhibit elevated emotional and behavioral problems, which may be partially due to alterations in cognitive control. Using multiple methods (i.e., neuropsychological, behavioral, and event-related potential [ERP] assessments), the present study examined differences in emotional, behavioral, and cognitive control difficulties in p...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - April 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Emilia F C árdenas Kaylin E Hill Elizabeth Estes Sanjana Ravi Andrew E Molnar Kathryn L Humphreys Autumn Kujawa Source Type: research
Neural and behavioral indicators of cognitive control in preschoolers with and without prenatal opioid exposure
Child Neuropsychol. 2023 Apr 18:1-19. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2023.2196397. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrenatal opioid exposure is one consequence of the opioid epidemic, but effects on child development remain poorly understood. There is emerging evidence that children exposed to opioids in utero exhibit elevated emotional and behavioral problems, which may be partially due to alterations in cognitive control. Using multiple methods (i.e., neuropsychological, behavioral, and event-related potential [ERP] assessments), the present study examined differences in emotional, behavioral, and cognitive control difficulties in p...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - April 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Emilia F C árdenas Kaylin E Hill Elizabeth Estes Sanjana Ravi Andrew E Molnar Kathryn L Humphreys Autumn Kujawa Source Type: research
