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. 1989 Feb;17(1):37-53.
doi: 10.1007/BF00910769.

A comparison of 13-year-old boys with attention deficit and/or reading disorder on neuropsychological measures

R McGee  1 , S Williams, T Moffitt, J Anderson
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A comparison of 13-year-old boys with attention deficit and/or reading disorder on neuropsychological measures

R McGee et al. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1989 Feb.

Abstract

This study compared 13-year-old boys with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and/or reading disability (RD), and controls with neither disorder on a battery of verbal and nonverbal neuropsychological measures. The aim was to examine whether ADD was associated with a qualitatively distinct pattern of deficits compared with RD. None of the measures differentiated the boys with ADD-only from the controls; the only deficit associated with ADD was slightly lower IQ. RD, on the other hand, was associated with deficits in memory and verbal skills.

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