Attention deficits and clumsiness in Swedish 7-year-old children

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 796-804

  Kadesjö, Björn ^a   Gillberg, Christopher ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOME; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; PERCEPTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031773703     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1998.tb12356.x     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Airaksinen E, Bille B, Carlström G, Diderichsen J, Ehlers S, Gillberg C, Gillberg IC, Gunnarsson S, Hellgren L, Herrgård H, et al. (1991) Barn och ungdomar med DAMP/MBD (Children and adolescents with DAMP/MBD). Läkartidningen 88: 714. (In Swedish.)
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1987) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 3rd edn, revised. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.
3. _ (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fourth edn. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.
4. Anderson JC, Williams S, McGee R, Silva PA. (1987) DSM-III disorders in preadolescent children. Prevalence in a large sample from the general population. Archive of General Psychiatry 44: 69-76.
5. Barkley RA. (1990) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment. New York: Guilford Press.
6. Bax M. (1989) Full assessment of the child. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 31: 1-2. (Editorial.)
7. _ Whitmore K. (1987) The medical examination of children on entry to school. The results and use of neurodevelopmental Assessment. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 29: 40-55.
8. Beitchman J, Nair R, Clegg M, Ferguson B, Patel P. (1986) Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children with speech and language disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 25: 528-35.
9. Biederman J, Newcorn J, Sprich S. (1991) Comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with conduct, depressive, anxiety, and other disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry 148: 564-77.
10. Bille B, Brieditis K, Steen M, Ekström B. (1985) FBH-provet. Stockholm: Liber Utbiklningsförlaget. (In Swedish.)
11. Boyle MH, Offord DR, Hofmann HG, Catlin GP, Byles JA, Cadman DT, Crawford JW, Links PS, Rae-Grant NI, Szatmari P (1987) Ontario child health study I. Methodology, Archives of General Psychiatry 44: 826-31.
12. Clements SD, Peters JE. (1966) Task Force One. Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children. National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Monograph No 3. Washington DC: US Public Health Service.
13. Conners K. (1973) Rating scales for use in drug studies with children. Psychopharmacology Bulletin (Special Issue) 9: 24-84.
14. Cratty B. (1994) Clumsy Child Syndrome. Descriptions, Evaluation and Remediation. Chur: Harwood Academic Publisher.
15. Denckla M, Rudel R, Chapman C, Krieger J. (1985) Motor profiency in dyslexic children with and without attentional disorders. Archives of Neurology 42: 228-31.
16. _ (1996) Biological correlates of learning and attention: what is relevant to learning disability and ADHD. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 17: 114-9.
17. deQuirós B, Kinsbourne M, Palmer R, Rufo T. (1994) Attention deficit disorder in children. Three clinical variants. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 15: 311-9.
18. Epstein M, Shaywitz S, Shaywitz B, Woolston J. (1991) The boundaries of attention deficit disorder. Journal of Learning Disabilities 24: 78-86.
19. Gillberg C. (1983) Perceptual, motor and attentional deficits in Swedish primary school children. Some child psychiatric aspects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 24: 377-403.
20. _ (1995) Clinical Child Neuropsychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p 366.
21. _ Kadesjö B. (1998) AD/HD and developmental coordination disorder. In: Brown TE, editor. Attention Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities in Children, Adolescents and Adults. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press.
22. _ Rasmussen P. (1982) Perceptual, motor and attentional deficits in seven-year-old children: background factors. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 24: 752-70.
23. _ _ Carlström G, Svenson B, Waldenström E. (1982) Perceptual, motor and attentional deficits in six-year-old children. Epidemiological aspects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 23: 131-44.
24. Gillberg IC. (1985) Children with minor neurodevelopmental disorders. III: Neurological and neurodevelopmental problems at age 10. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 27: 3-16.
25. _ Gillberg C. (1989) Children with preschool minor neurodevelopmental disorders. IV: Behaviour and school achievement at age 13. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 31: 3-13.
26. Harris JC. (1995a) Developmental Neuropsychiatry. Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of Developmental Disorders II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p 596.
27. _ (1995b) Developmental Neuropsychiatry. The Fundamentals I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p 272.
28. Hellgren L, Gillberg C, Enerskog I. (1987) Antecedents of adolescent psychoses: a population-based study of school health problems in children who develop psychosis in adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 26: 351-5.
29. _ _ Gillberg IC, Enerskog I. (1993) Children with Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception (DAMP) almost grown up: general health at age 16 years. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 35: 881-92.
30. _ Gillberg IC, Bågenholm A, Gillberg C. (1994) Children with Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception (DAMP) almost grown up: psychiatric and personality disorders at age 16 years. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 35: 1255-71.
31. Irgens LM, Hellesöy OH. (1978) The school health services and psycho-social health problems. Scandinavian Journal of School Health Medicine 24: (Suppl.) 9-34.
32. Kadesjö B, Gillberg C. (1998) Developmental co-ordination disorder in Swedish 7 year-olds. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (Forthcoming.)
33. Lahey B, Schaughenecy E, Hynd G, Carlson C, Nieves N. (1987) Attention deficit disorder with and without hyperactivity: comparison of behavioral characteristics of clinic-referred children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 26: 718-23.
34. Landgren M, Pettersson R, Kjellman B, Gillberg C. (1996) ADHD, DAMP and other neurodevelopmental/neuropsychiatric disorders in six-year-old children. Epidemiology and comorbitlity. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 38: 891-906.
35. Levy F, Hay DA, McStephen M, Wood C, Waldman I. (1997) Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a category or a continuum? Genetic analysis of a large-scale twin study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36: 737-44.
36. Lord R, Hulme C. (1987) Perceptual judgements of normal and clumsy children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 29: 250-7.
37. Losse A, Henderson SE, Elliman D, Hall D, Knight E, Jongmans M. (1991) Clumsiness in children - do they grow out of it? A 10-year follow-up study. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology? 33: 55-68.
38. McGee R, Share D. (1988) Attention deficit-hyperactivity and academic failure: which comes first and what should be treated. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 27: 318-25.
39. _ Feehan M, Williams S, Partridge F, Silva PA, Kelly J. (1990) The prevalence of DSM-III disorders in a large sample of adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 29: 611-9.
40. Mellbin T, Sundelin C, Vuille JC. (1992) Growing up in Uppsala. Part II. Could adolescent with severe psychosocial problems have been identified by symptoms observed in school at age 10 years? Acta Paediatrica 81: 424-9.
41. Offord D, Boyle M, Racine Y. (1989) Ontario child health study: correlates of disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 29: 856-60.
42. Rasmussen P, Gillberg C, Waldenstro∼m E, Svenson B. (1983) Perceptual, motor and attentional deficits in seven-year-old children: neurological and neurodevelopmental aspects. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 25: 315-33.
43. Reeves JC, Werry JS, (1987) Soft signs in hyperactivity. In: Soft Neurological Signs. Thupper DE, editor. Orlando: Grune and Stratton. p. 224-45.
44. Rie H, Rie E. (1980) Handbook of Minimal Brain Dysfunction. A Critical View. New York: John Wiley.
45. Rourke BP. (1988) The syndrome of non-verbal learning disabled children: developmental manifestations of neurological disease. Clinical Neuropsychologist 2: 293-330.
46. Rutter M. (1982) Syndromes attributed to minimal brain dysfunction in childhood. American Journal of Psychiatry 139: 21-33.
47. Sanford MN, Offord DR, Boyle MH, Peace A, Racine YA. (1992) Ontario child health study: social and school impairments in children aged 6 to 16 years. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 31: 60-7.
48. Schrag P, Divoky D. (1975) The Myth of the Hyperactive Child. New York: Pantheon.
49. Semrud-Clikeman M, Biederman J, Sprich-Buckminister S, Frifcher Lehman B, Faraone S, Norman D. (1992) Comorbidity between ADDH and learning disability. A review and report in a clinical referred sample. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 31: 439-48.
50. Silver LS. (1990) Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder: is it a learning disability or related disorder. Journal of Learning Disabilities 23: 394-7.
51. Szatmari P, Offord DR, Boyle MH. (1989) Ontario Child Health Study: prevalence of attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 30: 219-30.
52. Taylor EA. (1986) The Overactive Child. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
53. Verhulst F, Akkerhuis G, Althaus M. (1985) Mental health in Dutch children: (1) A cross cultural comparison. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 72: (Suppl.)
54. Wender PH. (1971) Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children. New York: John Wiley
55. Werry JS, Quay HC. (1971) The prevalence of behavior symptoms in younger elementary school children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 41: 136-43.
56. Whitmore K, Bax M. (1986) The school entry medical examination. Archives of Diseases in Childhood 61: 807-17.
57. _ _ (1990) Checking the health of school entrants. Archives of Disease in Childhood 65: 320-6.
58. World Health Organization. (1993) The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. Diagnostic Criteria for Research. Geneva: WHO.
59. Wing L. (1980) Childhood autism and social class: a question of selection. British Journal of Psychiatry 137: 410-7.
60. Zeiner P. (1997) Parent-reported symptoms of hyperactivity and attention deficits predicts teacher-reported symptoms. Acta Paediatrica 86: 178-82.