Applied Neuropsychology: Child最新文献

{"title":"Gender differences in the relationship between story comprehension and theory of mind skills in Kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia.","authors":"Afaf Mamdouh Mohamed Barakat, Islah Hassan Elawad, Ahlam A Gabr","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2025.2460179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2460179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background statement: </strong>Studies show that there is a relationship between theory of mind and story comprehension skills. However, it is also seen that there is a need for correlational studies that examine story comprehension skills according to theory of mind sub-skills.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study aimed to examine the relationship between preschool children's theory of mind and story comprehension skills. In addition, it was investigated whether there were differences in story comprehension and theory of mind scores of children according to the gender variable.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study group consisted of 140 children (71 girls, 69 boys), from four kindergartens, in Rafha, Saudi Arabia, during the fall semester of the 2024 academic year. The study group was selected using the convenience sampling method, a nonrandom sampling method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant differences were found in favor of girls in the story comprehension scores and Theory of Mind Skills of the children included in the study.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>According to the results of the research, there is a positive moderate relationship between story comprehension scores and theory of mind scale scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143078482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Concussion characteristics in children and adolescents with ADHD: Exploring symptom burden and recovery trajectories.","authors":"Hillary E Swann-Thomsen, Naida Dillion, Elyse A C Palumbo, Kristi Pardue, Hilary Flint, Kurt J Nilsson","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2025.2459235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2459235","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Concussions are a significant health concern for pediatric populations as children and adolescents engage in sports and recreational activities that increase their likelihood of sustaining brain injuries. Physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms resulting from concussion overlap with other diagnoses, particularly mimicking many symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This study aimed to investigate and compare concussion characteristics, including symptom burden and recovery timeline, among pediatric patients with and without ADHD who have been diagnosed with a concussion. A retrospective chart review of 316 patients aged 6-18 years seen in a specialty concussion clinic in the Northwest United States was conducted. Patients with ADHD were selected, and patients without a positive developmental history were selected as an age-matched control group. Data from initial phone interviews and the Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire were recorded into Epic EHR. Variables included demographics, concussion details, and symptom severity. Younger patients with ADHD had a longer time to their first visit, but ADHD did not significantly impact overall recovery time. Adolescents with ADHD and concussion were more likely to have diagnoses of depression and anxiety than adolescents without ADHD who had a concussion. The findings highlight the complexity of outcomes following concussion in children and adolescents. Although ADHD was associated with delayed care-seeking and higher rates of depression and anxiety diagnoses, an ADHD diagnosis did not significantly affect concussion symptom burden, as measured by the Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire, or recovery timeline.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143073319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of verbal and nonverbal cognitive abilities in children with stuttering using 5th edition Stanford Binet.","authors":"Rasha Sami Abdul-Aziz, Sherine Ramzy, Ghada Tarek Orabi","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2024.2448009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2448009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stuttering is a speech disorder disrupting fluency with implications that could affect psychological, educational, social, and occupational aspects of life. Cognitive functions include mental processes that allows for execution of goal-directed responses in different situations. They are usually referred to as executive functions (EF) which consists of three main components, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control. The Stanford Binet 5th edition (SB5) is an intelligence scale designed to assess various cognitive skills by measuring five main domains that require the administration of these executive skills. Recent research has focused on executive functions skills among children with stuttering (CWS), and how it might affect stuttering development and severity.</p><p><strong>Aim of the study: </strong>The aim of this study was to compare the cognitive verbal and nonverbal skills using the Stanford Binet intelligence quotient test 5th edition (SB5) between children with stuttering (CWS) and children with no stuttering (CWNS) and to assess which of these skills affected stuttering severity among CWS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 70 children, 40 CWS and 30 CWNS, were assessed using the SB5 test. Further assessment of the CWS was done using the stuttering severity index (SSI) to determine the degree of stuttering. Statistical analysis and comparison were used to determine results and differences in cognitive skills, and regressive analysis was used to determine the most predicative factor in stuttering development and severity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Showed that CWS performed lower scores than CWNS in all SB5 domains except in non-verbal domain, where the two groups did not differ significantly in their performance. Working memory was the weakest skill among CWS and stood out as the only significant predicative factor in stuttering. Children with severe stuttering performed higher in their total IQ, nonverbal IQ, knowledge, and fluid reasoning than moderate stutterers, having the strongest performance in non-verbal IQ, still none of these domains turned out to be of a predicative significance in severity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings suggest that working memory is the weakest executive skill in CWS as well as other executive functions related to cognitive flexibility compared to fluent controls. Working memory skills are significantly lower in CWS but does not correlate with its severity; whereas the strongest skills, among CWS compared to fluent controls, are in the nonverbal domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A case of severe TBI: Recovery?","authors":"Paul B Jantz, E D Bigler","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2025.2455115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2455115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic stage neuropsychological assessments of children with severe TBI typically center around a referral question and focus on assessing cognitive, behavioral, and emotional functioning, making differential diagnoses, and planning treatment. When severe TBI-related neurological deficits are subtle and fall outside commonly assessed behavioral indicators, as can happen with theory of mind and social information processing, they can go unobserved and subsequently fail to be assessed. Additionally, should chronic stage cognitive, behavioral, and emotional assessment findings fall within the average to above average range, a child experiencing ongoing significant unassessed severe TBI-related subtle deficits could be mistakenly judged to have \"recovered\" from their injury; and to be experiencing no significant ongoing residual neurological deficits. To illustrate how this could happen, and how subacute neuroimaging and brain network theory might be early indicators of emergent chronic stage neuropsychological deficits, we present a child with a severe TBI and average to above average cognitive, behavioral, and emotional assessment findings who has comorbid significant deficits in theory of mind and social functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtual reality based audio visual brainwave entrainment to improve learning in children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder.","authors":"Manasa Mandapati, Prabhat Ranjan","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2025.2455102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2455102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention deficit/hyperactive disorder is increasing in prevalence among children all over the world which affects the children's communication, learning, and behavior, which in turn affects the quality of life. The depolarization of neurons is modulated by neural stimulation which triggers activity-based mechanisms of neuroplasticity. An external periodic stimulus that can modify the oscillations of the brain through synchronization is called entrainment. In this research virtual reality is combined with brainwave entrainment to improve learning in children with ADHD. The experiment is conducted with 11 subjects diagnosed with ADHD by pediatricians and psychiatrists. Binaural Beats (10 Hz via wired earphones, sine waves) are used for audio, and pulses of light (10 Hz via VR device) are used for visual entrainment. This audio-visual entrainment is done for 20 days with 15 minutes of entrainment per day. EEG was recorded pre and post entrainment sessions using an Emotiv Epoc X device. The analysis revealed an improvement in 8 subjects out of 11 subjects in terms of attention and spatial learning. The overall analysis reveals a significant difference in attention and cognitive ability before and after the AVE sessions in 72% of the subjects. The brain topological map shown also reveals the difference in the brain activity before and after the AVE sessions.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143027508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of a screener for Cerebral Visual Impairment.","authors":"Sara Monteiro, Pascale Esch, Géraldine Hipp, Sonja Ugen","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2025.2451986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2451986","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored the secondary use of Luxembourg's school monitoring tool for a large-scale screening of Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)-related difficulties. 44 items, with and without time constraint, were developed, and pretested among 959 children. All children subsequently participated in an individual evaluation of higher-level visual processing (HLVP) measures related with CVI. A clinical outcome was attributed post hoc with 32 children being classified as having CVI-related difficulties. To explore the predictive power of the CVI items included in the monitoring, item responses were matched to the results of the individual HLVP assessment. Of all items, the untimed item targeting the combined functions of surface and rotation significantly distinguished group performances (<.05). To improve condition discrimination, different item combinations were tested. Sensitivity and specificity metrics were computed resulting in ranges of 37.5% - 81.3% and 27% - 88.8% respectively. The item combination with the highest sensitivity (81.3%) was retained considering a viable trade-off between sensitivity and specificity metrics. These results support the secondary use of an existing large-scale monitoring tool to screen for CVI-related difficulties in the beginning of elementary school, provided that additional sources of information are progressively implemented to strengthen the tool's predictive power.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142998877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Statement of Retraction: Psychological Resilience, Emotional Symptoms, and Recovery Duration in Adolescent Sport-Related Concussion.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2025.2455904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2455904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142998856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parents' approval of their children playing high-risk sports.","authors":"Richard A Wise, F Richard Ferraro","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2024.2449533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2449533","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sport concussions can have deleterious effects on the health of children. Despite the high risk of concussions for certain sports, previous research indicates many parents would let their children play these sports. Understanding which high-risk sports parents will let their children play, and why parents let them play high-risk sports is critical to understanding how best to educate parents about concussion risk and its consequences. The present study replicated previous research by Fedor and Gunstad (2016) and Ferraro et al. (2021) to determine whether parents would let their children play a variety of high-risk sports. It also examined some high-risk sports not previously studied, and how gender and grade level of a child affected parents' decisions. Lastly, it determined if concussion knowledge, gender beliefs, parental history of a concussion diagnosed by a physician, estimates about how many high school athletes play varsity college sports, and demographic variables predicted parental willingness to let their children play high-risk sports. A total of 390 parents participated in the survey. Most parents expressed willingness to let their children play the high-risk sports sampled except for tackle football. Gender beliefs, if a parent had a concussion, and education predicted if parents would let their children play high-risk sports. Recommendations are made about how to improve parents' decisions about whether to let their children play high-risk sports.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tablet computer-based cognitive training for visuomotor function in a child with neurofibromatosis type 1: A case-report.","authors":"Jee Hyun Suh","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2024.2449536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2449536","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visuomotor function impairment is commonly observed in individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). In this case report, a 13-year-old child diagnosed with NF1 and impaired visuomotor skills participated in an 8-week tablet computer-based cognitive training for visuomotor function. The Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, 6th Edition (VMI-6) and the Korean Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale for Youth were administered before and after the intervention to assess effectiveness. The Beery-Buktenica VMI-6 raw score improved from 17 to 24, and the Korean Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale for Youth score changed from 45 to 42. These results demonstrate the potential of tablet computer-based cognitive training as a therapeutic intervention to enhance visuomotor function in children with impaired visuomotor skills, without the influence of digital media addiction.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric evaluation and clinical compatibility of the Turkish version of the Children Participation Questionnaire (CPQ-T).","authors":"Nursena Ulas, Guleser Guney Yilmaz, Barkın Köse","doi":"10.1080/21622965.2024.2449123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2449123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim of this study was to adapt the Children Participation Questionnaire (CPQ) into Turkish culture and evaluate its psychometric properties in typically developing children aged 4-6 years. This study involved 235 typically developing children and 61 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parents completed the Turkish CPQ (CPQ-T) and demographic form. The adaptation process followed the World Health Organization's guidelines. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted, and construct validity was assessed using the Mann-Whitney <i>U</i> test to compare participation levels between typically developing children and those with ASD. Reliability was measured through Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability, with agreement assessed using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) and McDonald's ω. Sensitivity and specificity were determined using ROC curves. The study demonstrated significant differences in participation levels between the study group and children with ASD across all domains (p < 0.001). Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good model fit (CMIN/DF = 2.692, GFI = 0.862, IFI = 0.932). The CPQ showed excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.978) and test-retest reliability (ICC = 0.943 to 0.983). Sensitivity and specificity analyses yielded high values, with Area Under the Curve (AUC) ranging from 0.956 to 0.978. The Turkish version of the CPQ is a valid and reliable tool for assessing child participation, effectively distinguishing between typically developing children and those with ASD. This study contributes significantly to the limited literature on the CPQ, highlighting its utility in clinical and research settings for evaluating children's participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8047,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology: Child","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142920674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}