Executive Functions in Youth With Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Silja Pirilä, Jaap J. van der Meere, Kati Rantanen, Maria Jokiluoma, Kai Eriksson

Journal of Child Neurology · 2011 · 65 citations · 17 references

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Dependent on criteria used, between 35% and 53% of the participants with cerebral palsy fulfilled the criteria of clinically relevant executive function problems as defined by Conners' (1994) Continuous Performance Test. Executive function problems were noticed mainly in participants with bilateral brain lesions and who had been born preterm. Findings highlight the need to check for attention problems in children with cerebral palsy.

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