𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Training of attention functions in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

✍ Scribed by Oliver Tucha; Lara Tucha; Gesa Kaumann; Sebastian König; Katharina M. Lange; Dorota Stasik; Zoe Streather; Tobias Engelschalk; Klaus W. Lange


Publisher
Springer Vienna
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
222 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
1866-6116

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Pharmacological treatment of children with ADHD has been shown to be successful; however, medication may not normalize attention functions. The present study was based on a neuropsychological model of attention and assessed the effect of an attention training program on attentional functioning of children with ADHD. Thirty-two children with ADHD and 16 healthy children participated in the study. Children with ADHD were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions, i.e., an attention training program which trained aspects of vigilance, selective attention and divided attention, or a visual perception training which trained perceptual skills, such as perception of figure and ground, form constancy and position in space. The training programs were applied in individual sessions, twice a week, for a period of four consecutive weeks. Healthy children did not receive any training. Alertness, vigilance, selective attention, divided attention, and flexibility were examined prior to and following the interventions. Children with ADHD were assessed and trained while on ADHD medications. Data analysis revealed that the attention training used in the present study led to significant improvements of various aspects of attention, including vigilance, divided attention, and flexibility, while the visual perception training had no specific effects. The findings indicate that attention training programs have the potential to facilitate attentional functioning in children with ADHD treated with ADHD drugs.


📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES