摘要：The basis of this article is A. R. Luria’s conception of the qualitative approach in neuropsychology.Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity is one of the most frequentclinical diagnoses given during preschool age. However, precise qualitative neuropsychologicalcriteria for analysis of this clinical diagnosis do not exist and change fromone approach to another. Our objective here is to propose such qualitative criteria forneuropsychological analysis of children with diagnoses of attention deficit disorder withhyperactivity at preschool age. We follow clinical methodology that is traditional for historicaland cultural neuropsychology and is an alternative for the psychometrical andcognitive approach. The methodology of the study was qualitative neuropsychologicalassessment of the syndrome followed by detailed consideration of the types of difficultiesin each case. The study analyzes mistakes and typical examples of execution of the tasksof neuropsychological qualitative assessment by regular children and by children with attentiondeficit disorder with hyperactivity. The results showed differences between thesegroups of children. The children with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity madea lot of mistakes during assessments. Their difficulties are related to unfavorable conditionsin the three functional brain blocks according to Luria’s conception. We concludethat “attention” cannot be considered the only or the main problem in children whoreceive this diagnosis by psychiatrists and neurologists.
关键词：qualitative neuropsychology; process of attention; disorders of attention; neuropsychological;assessment; child neuropsychology
