Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 7, Issue 4, DIP: 18.01.005/20190704 DOI: 10.25215/0704.005 http://www.ijip.in | October- December, 2019 © 2019, S. Venkatesan & L. Lokesh; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Impulsivity in students with specific learning disabilities S. Venkatesan 1 , L. Lokesh 2 * ABSTRACT Background: It has often asked whether impulsivity is a stable response style of students with specific learning disabilities. There is no straightforward emphatic answer to this question. The available literature on the theme is fraught with issues related to the definition of the terms impulsivity as well as learning disabilities. Method: Notwithstanding all this, this study uses a cross-sectional one-shot exploratory survey design to profile the nature, degree and extent in the presence and patterns of impulsivity by adopting a self-cum- significant other report technique for 134 respondents identified as having academic delays and specific learning disabilities to answer a simple abridged and adapted version of 25-item Barratt Impulsiveness Scale along a four-point Likert scale. Results: The overall impulsivity score is more than the assumed and expected mean values for children on the scale. Further, domain analysis on 1st and 2nd order factors on the scale show significantly different trends for major domains of attention, motor, and non-planning (p: <0.001) with no such differences for sub-domains of non-planning in self-control and cognitive complexity (p: >0.05). There appears to be no influence of the studied demographic variables like age, gender, school curriculum, and grades in the impulsivity scores of these children. Item analysis shows that these students are affected by ‘extraneous thoughts,’ ‘get easily bored when solving thought problems,’ ‘do not like to think about complex problems,’ and, so on. The implications of the study for developing impulsivity reduction strategies and its limitations are presented. Keywords: Children with learning disability, impulsivity, attention, self-control, executive functions Most children have times when they act as a whim without really thinking. When they behave so, they are dubbed careless, mean, or rude. When they are impulsive, they have trouble following rules consistently, cannot wait for their turn, and might end becoming aggressive toward others. They may grab things from others, or intrude during games and conversation, overreact to disappointment, criticism, and frustration. They always want to have the last word and first turn. They do not understand how their words or actions affect others or what could be the consequences of their actions. Impulsivity can occur due to 1 Professor & Head, Department of Clinical Psychology in All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, located at Manasagangotri, Mysore: 570 006, Karnataka, India. 2 Clinical Psychologist-Grade II, Department of Clinical Psychology in All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, located at Manasagangotri, Mysore: 570 006, Karnataka, India. *Responding Author Received: September 22, 2019; Revision Received: October 22, 2019; Accepted: December 25, 2019