In her study Esther Parigger examines language abilities of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and compares these abilities to those of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. Executive functioning, an umbrella term for various higher order cognitive processes, and responsible for goal-directed behaviour is also examined. Moreover, the study explores the possibility that executive disfunctioning may be specifically linked to pragmatic language problems. This dataset contains the results of this study. The results showed that children with ADHD differed in pragmatic language production in comparison with typically developing children and they performed equally poor as children with SLI in this language domain. With respect to executive functioning, children with ADHD performed worse than both other groups on the measure for inhibition. However, no differences between the three groups were reported for the measures of working memory, planning, cognitive flexibility and non-verbal fluency. Significant correlations between executive functioning and pragmatic language production were not found. The study is of particular relevance to scholars who are interested in the interaction between language (grammar and pragmatics) and cognition (executive functioning). In short: Informants: 26 Dutch children with ADHD, 19 Dutch children with SLI, 22 children Dutch controls; Characteristics: ages between 7 and 8 years; 80% male, 20% female; intelligence within normal ranges; Aim data collection: to compare the language and executive functioning profiles of children with ADHD to children with SLI and TD children; Materials available: Tests: Sentence repetition task; Non-Word repetition task; Frog story narratives, processed in SPSS on morphological, syntactic and pragmatic measures; Children’s Communicative Check-list II; CANTAB EF tasks for executive functioning; Size: 4 Gb (67 recordings).

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Hogeschool van Amsterdam - Esther Parigger

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Hogeschool van Amsterdam - Esther Parigger