[Results of concentration training in normally intelligent students with poor concentration]. / Ergebnisse des Konzentrationstrainings bei normalintelligenten, konzentrationsschwachen Schülern.

The contribution reports on the efficiencies of two different concentration training programmes tested on 40 normally intelligent boys with severely reduced concentration. Twenty of the boys received rhythmic music therapy and the other 20 received a special teaching programme based on psychological principles. Psychostimulants were also administered to 10 boys in each group. The success of treatment was assessed by comparison with an untreated group of pupils with reduced concentration. The boys who received additional psychostimulants achieved the greatest gain in learning as a result of concentration training. The special teaching programme is generally superior to rhythmic musical training.

[Differences in behavior evaluation of normally intelligent children with school difficulties by parents and teacher]. / Differenzen in der Verhaltenseinschätzung von normalintelligenten Kindern mit Schulschwierigkeiten durch Eltern und Lehrer.

The behaviour of normally intelligent children experiencing difficulties in reading and writing and with poor concentration was assessed by means of the Meyer-Probst questionnaire which was answered by the mothers, fathers and teachers. The results were compared with those for a parallel control group composed of normal children. The assessments given by parents and teachers were in good agreement in the case of the control group, but those given by the different persons involved differed in education and upbringing regarding certain psychological aspects in the case of the children with poor performance at school.

[Psychologic development of children with surgically treated myelodysplasias, craniostenoses and hydrocephalus]. / Psychische Entwicklung von Kindern mit operierten Myelodysplasien, Kraniostenosen und Hydrozephalus.

The authors present the results of psychosomatic follow-up examinations performed on 40 children after myelodysplasia, hydrocephalus and craniostenosis operations. A total of 60 percent showed average intelligence (suitable for ordinary schools) despite considerable motor disturbances, and 27.5 percent could attend special schools. Psychic and somatic development was further differentiated using such criteria as concentration, vocabulary, running, incontinence and social conditions.

[Influencing the lack of concentration in hyperkinetic school children with Aponeuron]. / Zur Beeinflussung der Konzentrationsschwäche bei hyperkinetischen Schulkindern mit Aponeuron

The authors, after typologically defining three etiopathogenetically different forms of lack of concentration power, report the therapeutic effects produced by Aponeuron administered to 38 eight- to thirteen-year-old hyperkinetic children lacking adequate concentration power but being of normal intelligence. The results reported in this paper are based upon comparative psychometric tests, valuation scales used by parents and teachers, and the grades received before and after a three- to six-month treatment. They provide statistical evidence of an increase in concentration power and a decrease in both fatigability and motor unrest. Obviously, objections frequently made to the treatment of encephalopathic children with centrally stimulating drugs are not justified providing indication is furnished expertly.