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  • Title: Attentiveness and responsiveness to auditory stimuli of children at risk for mental retardation.
    Author: Finkelstein NW, Gallagher JJ, Farran DC.
    Journal: Am J Ment Defic; 1980 Sep; 85(2):135-44. PubMed ID: 7446581.
    Abstract:
    The major hypothesis in the present study was that differences between high-risk and low-risk children in performance on standardized tests of cognitive ability would be explained, in part, by differences in attentiveness to auditory stimuli and differences in task orientation. The data collected revealed the anticipated higher standardized test scores for low-risk children. Within the high-risk sample, few differences were found between children who attended an intervention day-care program and those who did not. Measures from a laboratory task and a free-play observation suggested that attention is a key factor in understanding the high-risk child's development and also that differences in attention between high- and low-risk children can be reliably obtained as early as 3 years of age. A lessened attention span was demonstrated by high-risk children to both auditory and visual stimuli if either were complex or demanding.
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