Children with specific learning disorders (SLDs) face a unique set of socio-emotional
challenges as a result of their academic difficulties. Although a higher prevalence of anxiety …

Inattention is among the most commonly referred problems for school-aged youth. Research
suggests distinct mechanisms may contribute to attention problems in youth with anxiety …

Young people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to have heightened
levels of anxiety compared with their typically developing (non‐ASD) peers. The reasons for …

Attention biases towards threatening and sad stimuli are associated with pediatric anxiety
and depression, respectively. The basic cognitive mechanisms associated with attention …

The present study examined competing models of the bi-directional influences of anxiety
and reading achievement. Participants were 153 ethnically-diverse children (84 male, 69 …

Research on attention provides a promising framework for studying anxiety pathophysiology
and treatment. The study of attention biases appears particularly pertinent to developmental …

In contrast to the impressive body of research on information-processing factors in adult
anxiety disorders that has accumulated across the past 15 years or so, studies of cognitive …

The objective of this study was to examine the relations among anxiety, inattention, and
math/reading achievement, as well as the mediating/moderating role of inattention in the …

This study provides preliminary tests of two hypotheses:(1) Anxiety-disordered children
show an attentional bias toward emotionally threatening stimuli, and (2) normal controls …

The purpose of this study was to examine the linkages among selective attention, memory
bias, cognitive errors, and anxiety problems by testing a model of the interrelations among …