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Russell Barkley

ADHD is related to a delayed-inner-speech account.1. Barkley/Vygotsky inner-speech theory2.

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ADHD is related to a delayed-inner-speech account.

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“delayed-inner-speech account of ADHD”
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Barkley/Vygotsky inner-speech theory

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“Barkley/Vygotsky inner-speech theory”
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Project completion difficulties are documented in occupational and academic functioning studies

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“Barkley & Murphy; Adler et al.”
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"The paper's central argument can be framed as a search for prosthetic media to compensate for an underdeveloped original prosthetic medium (inner speech)."
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"the internalization of speech develops later and less completely in individuals with ADHD"
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"the proposition that emotional dysregulation in ADHD is a *medium-substitution* problem"
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"The specific behavioral pattern — initiate → stall → abandon → restart — is widely described in popular and clinical ADHD literature"
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"the integration of (i) Lieberman's PFC–amygdala labeling circuit, (ii) Barkley's delayed inner-speech model of ADHD, and (iii) McLuhan's account of language as the originary autoamputating extension"
Asserted by Maryanne Wolf · stance: pro
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"ADHD is fundamentally a deficit of behavioral inhibition"
Asserted by Russell Barkley · stance: pro
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1997
1997
publication of ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control