Brain Injury Training for Attention Memory◊
Attention Process Training and cognitive rehabilitation programs for adults and children.
Attention Process Training Programs (APT) by Sohlberg and Mateer for cognitive rehabilitation with adolescents and adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post concussion syndrome.
Pay Attention Program by Thomson and Kerns for children with brain injury and ADHD. Books on memory after TBI and head injury.
Attention Process Training
Deficits in memory and learning are frequently a consequence of impaired attentional processing. APT provides a variety of treatment activities which train the basic attention components critical to new learning.
There are four levels or components of attention addressed in the APT Programs.
Sustained Attention: The ability to maintain a consistent behavioral response during continuous or repetitive activity.
Selective Attention: The ability to maintain a cognitive set which requires activation and inhibition of responses dependent upon discrimination of stimuli. This includes the ability to screen out extraneous visual or auditory information.
Alternating Attention: The capacity for mental flexibility which allows for moving between tasks having different cognitive requirements.
Divided Attention: The ability to simultaneously respond to multiple tasks.
(Sohlberg & Mateer)
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