Attention Treatment

Question 1

Evidence shows that ________ strategies may be more effective that focusing on intervention on restoring the function to the underlying process

Answer 1

compensatory strategies are better (Cicerone 2007)

Question 2

APT

Answer 2

Attention Process Training

• improvements in single attentional outcome measures, self-reported an improvement in attention and memory after treatment, and improved control of attention (Cicerone)
• Tasks in APT “make increasingly greater demands on complex attentional control and working memory and generally involve listening to audiotapes or working on paper and pencil tasks” (Mateer & Mapou, 1996, p.11).

–Examples of tasks suggested by Mateer & Mapou (1996) include listening for descending number sequences, shifting set on calculation tasks, Stroop-like activities, alphabetizing words in sentences, and detecting targets under noise situations

Question 3

Time pressure management (TPM)

Answer 3

increase awareness of errors and manage demands when many distractors are present — effective most when dealing with complex situations (Cicerone, 2007)