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Psychometric Screening for Attention Deficit Disorder in a Clinical Setting

University of Houston at Clear Lake

Peter Bishop

University of Houston at Clear Lake

R. Ray Battin

The Battin Clinic, Houston, Texas

There is growing dissatisfaction with the DSM-III definition of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and considerable debate among researchers as to whether ADD is a distinct disorder. Additionally, clinicians have relied on nonobjective behavioral observation to diagnose ADD. The present study attempted to find commonly used tests that could discriminate between an ADD sample and a control group with no DSM-III diagnosis. Subjects were 88 children, 7 to 10 years of age, who had received a battery of psychological tests. Discriminant analysis confirmed that hypothesized attention tests from the WISC-R, ITPA, Detroit, plus the GFW Auditory Selective Attention Test, significantly differentiated between the two groups and classified 74% of the cases correctly. It was concluded that use of these tests might add objective evidence to ADD screening and that the overall results lent support to ADD as a valid diagnostic classification.

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, Vol. 5, No. 3, 227-235 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/073428298700500305


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