Reference information:

Barwick, M., Cohen, N., Horodezky, N., Im, N., Isaacson, L., Menna, R.,
& Vallance, D. (2000). The interface between adhd and language
impairment: an examination fo language, achievement, and
cognitive processing. J. Child psychology, psychiatry, 41(3).
Topics addressed:
The article addressed language impairments, particularly in those who
have ADHD. It also contained a study that looked at children with
ADHD and children with a psychiatric diagnosis other than ADHD who
do ad do not have language impairment.
Summary (include question, participants, methods, results)
Three hypotheses were tested in the study, with the first being the
significance affect for language impairment on language, achievement,
and cognitive characteristics regardless of psychiatric diagnosis. The
second hypothesis was that there would be a significant main effect
for ADHD on cognitive measures of executive functions and on
narrative discourse and pragmatics, regardless of the diagnosis of
language impairment. The third hypothesis was that there would be a
significant interaction between ADHD and language impairment such
that the broadest range of impairments will be observed in children
with comorbid ADHD and LI. The study took 166 seven to fourteen
year old children that had ADHD and a psychiatric disorder other than
ADHD. The children went through a hearing screening, structural
language test, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the Test of
Language Development, multiple grammar tests, The Test of Auditory
Analysis Skills, pragmatic and narrative discourse tests, and tests to
measure auditory verbal memory. Achievement tests, language
impairment tests, and cognition tasks were also used. The study did
not completely support the hypotheses but did show some evidence
that children diagnosed with a language impairment are at a greater
disadvantage regardless of if they have ADHD or not.
Assess: (follow link for assessment questions)
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/03/
The article seemed to have just as much information about ADHD as it
did for LI. However, the information from the article was very
interesting and there was a lot of evidence to back up the findings.
Being that the article was written fifteen years ago, it may be a little
outdated but majority of the findings are probably true to this day. The
article seemed to be written for an audience that is interested in both
ADHD and LI, not just ADHD.
Reflect:
(How was this source helpful? How does it change how you think about
this topic? How does it support or argue your topic?
This article was helpful because it not only introduced me to ADHD, but
also included a great amount of information on language impairment. I

found it interesting how often the two are put together and am
wondering if more research will find the same similarities as this one.
Due to the fact that I only know general information about ADHD, this
article did not change how I think about ADHD.
Annotated Bibliography Worksheet CDIS 402
(Adapted from
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/)