ADHISO program for the improvement of executive functions in children of children with ADHD symptoms

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Published: Sep 18, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.428
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preventive program pre-school education executive functions ADHD

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Noelia García González
EOEP Cantalejo (Segovia)
Mª Angélica Calleja González
Universidad de Valladolid
Benito Arias Martínez
Universidad de Valladolid

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This paper intends to present the preventive program called ADHISO, designed for the improvement in the attention and cognitive skills as well as the reduction of hyperactive and impulsive behaviour in the students of pre-school education with ADHD symptomatology. A good executive functioning is essential for proper cognitive and behavioural development (Barkley, 1998; Burgess and Simons, 2005; Diamond, 2005; Raiker, et al., 2012). For this reason, the proposed objectives are focused on assisting the skills at delayed attention, perception, organization and spatial-temporal orientation, memory and meta-cognitive abilities, guided by self-instructions that allow to benefit the self-regulation of the students that present ADHD symptomatology. The program was applied to four students of ages between four and six years, by means of an A-B design of unique case. The outcomes of the program confirm an improvement in the attention, memory and perception in all the four subjects. One of the strengths of the ADHISO program seems to be its contribution to the development of competences in self-control of the behaviour, metacognitive skills and self-instructions.

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García González, N., Calleja González, M. A., & Arias Martínez, B. (2014). ADHISO program for the improvement of executive functions in children of children with ADHD symptoms. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 155–162. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.428
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014): EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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