Ursula Bailey and colleagues examined developmental changes in children’s comprehension of complex stories shown as television shows. They wanted to assess whether the comprehension of stories by children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) changed in the same way as the comprehension of stories by children without ADHD, and whether the comprehension of stories was affected by potentially distracting materials when the children were exposed to the story. The researchers showed 48 children with a diagnosis of ADHD (medication free for previous 24 hours) and 65 comparison peers the TV stories (13-min Rugrats episodes) when they were about 8½ years old and again when they were about 10¼ and under two conditions: while the children had toys available or when no toys were available., After the children viewed the stories, experimenters asked them to recount the story and then to answer questions about the story.
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