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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)."
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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Disputed
"the internalization of speech develops later and less completely in individuals with ADHD"
Asserted by Russell Barkley · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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Disputed
"the proposition that emotional dysregulation in ADHD is a *medium-substitution* problem"
Asserted by Maryanne Wolf · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"The specific behavioral pattern — initiate → stall → abandon → restart — is widely described in popular and clinical ADHD literature"
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Disputed
"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
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"ADHD is fundamentally a deficit of behavioral inhibition"
Asserted by Russell Barkley · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Timeline see standalone →
1997
1997
publication of ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control