Description

This treatment tool addresses the concerns of many brain injured patients:

• I can't keep my mind on what I'm doing.
• I forget what I came into a room for.
• I can't concentrate if it's noisy.
• I have to ask people to repeat things.
• I can't do more than one thing at a time.
• I can't keep my mind off certain things.
• I lose track of what I'm trying to say.
• I can't do math problems in my head.

Attention Process Training is a comprehensive, self-contained program designed to retrain attention and concentration deficits in individuals with brain injury. It was developed by a neuropsychologist and speech pathologist for use in a comprehensive cognitive remediation program. APT is a theoretically based set of treatment materials and tasks which address five separate levels of attention processing. It contains hierarchically organized auditory and visual tasks designed to improve sustained, selective, alternating and divided attention. APT is easy for clinicians to administer, easy to score, and has been proven effective in increasing attentional skills in published research studies.

THE APT IS DESIGNED FOR:

• Inpatients or outpatients with brain injury.
• Patients with a wide range of attention deficits from mild to severe.

SAMPLE TREATMENT ACTIVITIES:

• Number cancellation with visual distracter.
• Sustained attention tapes with noise.
• Flexible shape cancellation.
• Set-dependent alternating attention tasks.
• Divided attention tasks.
  

   

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Customer Reviews

TESTIMONIAL:

I am writing to you on behalf of the Colorado Neurobehavioral Center to support the Attention Process Training program. I have received the program, including the APT TEST, in December of 1990. Over the past six months, I have found this program invaluable in my work as a speech/language pathologist working with the mild head injured population.

The Attention Process Training program facilitates a data-based, hierarchical method of treating subtle deficits in attention and concentration. These cognitive deficits might otherwise go undetected and untreated in a direct program that is not targeted specifically for disorders affecting attention and concentration. We support the use of the APT program and plan to purchase the PROMS to augment our treatment in the area of prospective memory with our patients.

Amy L. Wilson CRRN
Director of Nursing C.P.V.

Target Audience

THE APT IS DESIGNED FOR:

• Inpatients or outpatients with brain injury.
• Adults and Adolescents with a wide range of attention deficits from mild to severe.

Author

Catherine Mateer, Ph.D., ABPP, CN

McKay Sohlberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP