Can Cognitive Training be a Treatment for ADHD?
According to the Study led by Dr L. Shalev, a pioneering intervention program was tested in order to directly improve the various attentional functions of children with ADHD.
The computerized progressive attentional training (CPAT) program trained four areas of attention: activate sustained attention, selective attention, orienting of attention, and executive attention. The ADHD kids, aged six to thirteen, were trained twice a week over an 8-week period. The control group did not do specific brain training, but regular computer games. The group of children that had the ADHD brain training, showed a significant improvement in reading comprehension, passage copying and reduction of parents’ reports of inattentiveness.
The research was done in Academic standards in Universities in the UK an Israel.
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