August 12, 2020An infant’s attentional behaviors can predict later symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD).
What’s more, non-social sensory attention in infants — actively exploring the sensory feaures of an environment — is significantly related to later ADHD symptom severity, according to findings from a recent study in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1Researchers analyzed data from First Year Inventory v.
2.0 (FYIv2.0) surveys completed by 229 parents when their children were 12 months old. The FYIv2.0 was considered in relation to parent-reported executive function (EF), and used to create the following three attention-based constructs representing social and nonsocial elements of infant attention that.
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