Daily Archive for December 4th, 2007

Examining the effects of a training program designed to promote self-regulation, Adele Diamond and colleagues found that “Tools of the Mind” (Tools) improved performance of preschoolers in regular classrooms with regular teachers. Weak self-regulatory and executive function skills are consistently associated with ADHD. In their study, which appeared in Science 30 November 2007, the researchers compared Tools to a balanced-literacy program and found that the preschoolers receiving the Tools program out-performed peers who had been randomly assigned to the control condition on tasks consider to reflect executive function.

Link to the study (subscription required for full text).