Propuesta de un protocolo abreviado para la evaluación de las funciones ejecutivas en niños y adolescentes
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2012-08-30
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Educación
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Educación
Abstract
Introduction. In 2011 the Corporación Universitaria
Lasallista´s Research Group on Applied Psychology
made a research work aiming to establish
the prevalence of some neuropsychological
syndromes among children and adolescents in
Caldas, Antioquia. Keeping in mind the need
to reduce the time used in neuropsychological
evaluations for these groups, briefer protocols
with the same efficacy to diagnose are required.
Objective. To determine the relationship that exists
between the results of Wechsler´s Scale subtests
for children (WISC IV) and the Neuropsychological
Assessment for Children (ENI in Spanish) which
were performed to evaluate the executive function
of 30 children with special education needs from
the Unidad de Atención Integral of Caldas, in 2011.
Method. A research work with a quantitative, not
experimental, transverse and correlational was
performed. Instruments. WISC IV and ENI subtests
that evaluate executive functions. Results. There
is a statistically significant relationship between
WISC IV concepts and ENI´s verbal semantic
fluency (fruits); similarities between WISC IV and
ENI´s verbal semantic fluency (animals); matrixes
of WISC IV and ENI´s graphic fluency; matrixes
of WISC IV and ENI´s cognitive flexibility errors.
Conclusions. From the results obtained in the
sample evaluated, it is concluded that it is possible
to reduce some ENI´s subtests when WISC IV is
simultaneously being applied. Therefore, in these
cases the ENI´s evaluation protocols verbal
fluency (animals), not semantic graphic fluency
and verbal fluency (fruits) are considered for not
to be included. This is, nevertheless, a proposal
that must be validated in a representative sample,
because this work explored an intended sample.
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Educación, Escala de inteligencia de wechsler para niños IV (WISC-IV), Evaluación neuropsicológica infantil (ENI), Neuropsicología, Función ejecutiva, Grupo de investigación en psicología aplicada