Reading Comprehension in Boys with ADHD: The Mediating Roles of Working Memory and Orthographic Conversion

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• 作者：Lauren M. Friedman ; Mark D. Rapport…
• 关键词：Attention ; deficit/hyperactivity disorder ; Reading comprehension ; Working memory ; Orthographic conversion ; Executive functions
• 刊名：Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：45
• 期：2
• 页码：273-287
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Child and School Psychology; Neurosciences; Public Health;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-2835
• 卷排序：45

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Reading comprehension difficulties in children with ADHD are well established; however, limited information exists concerning the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to these difficulties and the extent to which they interact with one another. The current study examines two broad cognitive processes known to be involved in children’s reading comprehension abilities—(a) working memory (i.e., central executive processes [CE], phonological short-term memory [PH STM], and visuospatial short-term memory [VS STM]) and (b) orthographic conversion (i.e., conversion of visually presented text to a phonological code)—to elucidate their unique and interactive contribution to ADHD-related reading comprehension differences. Thirty-one boys with ADHD-combined type and 30 typically developing (TD) boys aged 8 to 12 years (M = 9.64, SD = 1.22) were administered multiple counterbalanced tasks assessing WM and orthographic conversion processes. Relative to TD boys, boys with ADHD exhibited significant deficits in PH STM (d = −0.70), VS STM (d = −0.92), CE (d = −1.58), and orthographic conversion (d = −0.93). Bias-corrected, bootstrapped mediation analyses revealed that CE and orthographic conversion processes modeled separately mediated ADHD-related reading comprehension differences partially, whereas PH STM and VS STM did not. CE and orthographic conversion modeled jointly mediated ADHD-related reading comprehension differences fully wherein orthographic conversion’s large magnitude influence on reading comprehension occurred indirectly through CE’s impact on the orthographic system. The findings suggest that adaptive cognitive interventions designed to improve reading-related outcomes in children with ADHD may benefit by including modules that train CE and orthographic conversion processes independently and interactively.