NEPSY II

In NEPSY II (90), the subtests administered to the children with ADHD in the domain “attention and executive function” were as follows:

Animal sorting (AS): assessing the ability to formulate basic concepts, to sort those concepts into categories, and to shift from one concept to another.

Auditory attention (AA): assessing selective auditory attention and the ability to sustain it (vigilance).

Visual attention (VA): assessing the ability to sustain selective visual attention.

Response set (RS): the first task assesses the ability to shift and maintain a new and complex set involving both the inhibition of previously learned responses and correctly responding to matching or contrasting stimuli. In the second task, the child listens to a series of words and touches the appropriate circle when he/she hears a target word.

Design fluency (DS): assessing the child's ability to generate unique designs by connecting up to five dots, presented in two arrays: structured and random.

Inhibition (IN): assessing the ability to inhibit automatic responses in favor of novel responses and the ability to switch between response types (90).

The scores of the children with ADHD on the “attention and executive function” subtests of NEPSY II (90) are reported in Table A1.