Intelligence and achievement in children with myelomeningocele

Karen E. Wills; Grayson N. Holmbeck; Katherine Dillon; David G. Mclone

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Intelligence and achievement in children with myelomeningocele

Karen E. Wills^*, Grayson N. Holmbeck, Katherine Dillon, David G. Mclone

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Intelligence and achievement test scores for 89 children with myelomeningocele (MM), ages 4 to 14 years, were obtained from medical records. These children scored below the population average but within the normal range on most tests. The greatest deficits occurred on Performance IQ, arithmetic achievement, and visual-motor integration (copying geometric designs). With increasing age, these children fell further behind age-peers on tests of arithmetic and visual-motor performance while keeping pace on reading and spelling tests. We specualte that these findings may reflect a developmental difference between MM children and nonhandicapped children in a visual-perceptual-organizational cognitive function such as Rourke (1987) has proposed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	161-176
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of pediatric psychology
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/15.2.161
State	Published - Apr 1990

Keywords

Achievement
Children
Intelligence
Myleomemngocele
Spma bifida

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Developmental and Educational Psychology
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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