Effects of white noise on off-task behavior and academic responding for children with ADHD.
Abstract
We evaluated the effects of white noise played through headphones on off-task behavior, percentage of items completed, and percentage of items completed correctly for 3 students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Headphones plus white noise were associated with decreases in off-task behavior relative to baseline and headphones-only (no white noise) control conditions. Little change in academic responding occurred across conditions for all participants.
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“One common example is Applied Behavioral Analysis, or “ABA,” which is an evidence-based framework for addressing the needs of students with Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, such as AD/HD (Cook et al., 2014; Makrygianni et al., 2018).”
Background
- Authors
- Cook, A., Bradley‐Johnson, S., & Johnson, C. M.
- Affiliations
- Central Michigan University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bradley‐Johnson, Sharon
- ORCID
- Cook, Andrew
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-09-23
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 160-164
- ISSN
- 0021-8855 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-3703
- OpenAlex
- W1571465261
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6
- FWCI
- 5.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Keywords
- white noise, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, off-task behavior, headphones, children, noise masking, task completion
- MeSH terms
- Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate, Achievement, Acoustic Stimulation, Amphetamines, Central Nervous System Stimulants, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child, Dextroamphetamine, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Noise
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