Private speech in children with ADHD and their typically developing peers during problem-solving and inhibition tasks

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-115

  Corkum, Penny ^a   Humphries, Kelly ^b   Mullane, Jennifer C ^a   Theriault, France ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b South Shore Regional School Board   (Canada)

Author keywords

ADHD; Attention; Inhibition; Private speech; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749131940     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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