Many studies have explored the relationship between ADHD and basic learning skills but very little information is available about the writing skills of ADHD children. This research examined the performance of children described by their teachers as showing ADHD symptoms on two writing tasks, a dictation and a copy of texts [2], compared to a control matched group. ADHD children made more errors than controls in both the dictation and the copy task. Furthermore, the two groups also showed different patterns of errors. In the dictation children with ADHD symptoms made more errors with accents and geminates, supporting previous results [1], and confirming that this type of error mainly involves sophisticated use of both phonological and non-phonological indices. In the copy task, they made a high percentage of phonological errors (absence of correct correspondence between grapheme and phoneme). This result might be due to both attentional problems, because, according to the literature, this of error disappears easily with learning and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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