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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 7(4) pp. 415-423, 1982
© 1982 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Temperament Patterns in Young Neurologically Impaired Children

Laurie Heffernan, F. William Black1 and Patsy Poche

Louisiana State University Medical Center

1All correspondence should be addressed to F. William Black, Department of Neurology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1542 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112.

Parents of young neurologically impaired children completed a rating scale on their handicapped child's temperament. The ratings were examined for the incidence of the "difficult" temperament pattern, and for the sample's distribution on nine separate temperament characteristics. The data indicated no greater incidence of difficult temperament in neurologically impaired children than in normal children. The temperament characteristics of low activity level and a short attention span, coupled with low persistence were more common in this sample than in normal children. The results suggest that while some individual temperament characteristics may be modified by handicapping conditions, not every group of handicapped children has a higher rate of temperamentally difficult children. Additionally, moderately high parental convergence on temperament ratings was noted.


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