Is there a developmental gap in visual search for children with reported attention problems?

We report an analysis of developmental patterns in visual search for 6 to 12-year-old children. A typically developing sample of 1442 children is compared with two samples (N = 1160 and N = 947) of children with teacher-reported attentional problems. Inclusion criteria for these two groups are low academic achievement and probable attention problems as the reason for the low achievement. The three groups completed DiViSA, a computerized visual...