TALi TRAIN is a scalable program to train attention skills in early childhood, backed by Gold Standard clinical trials. With a world-first digital therapy like TALi TRAIN, you now have a new, non-invasive, and clinically tested early intervention tool in your toolkit.
TALi TRAIN can be prescribed as an intensive training program to be completed at home, complementing a child’s existing intervention and therapy plan, which makes it a strong addition to your practice.
Underpinned by ongoing research, the technology powering TALi TRAIN has been the subject of rigorous double-blind, randomised controlled trials to prove its efficacy in children. Targeting attention skills with training has been shown to provide significant improvements in the visual search abilities and numeracy skills of children with elevated behavioural attention difficulties.1,2 Reductions in the levels of inattentive and hyperactive behaviours have also been noted in primary school-aged children.3
Cognitive training with the TALi TRAIN program.
Cognitive training has been shown to be most effective when implemented early in development when the brain has the greatest degree of neuroplasticity.1 Research indicates that attention training programs can be implemented during a child’s early years and, therefore, target a younger age bracket than other training programs.
Targeted skills of cognitive training may differ but all models rely on an individual — in the case of TALi TRAIN, a child — completing a specific task repetitively. Tasks become increasingly difficult over time to challenge and improve attention skills.
Research shows, with repeated practice, the neural pathways responsible for cognitive attention abilities (often referred to as executive functioning) can be strengthened.
Impairment of cognitive function is symptomatic of many neurodevelopmental and degenerative disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) or even anxiety and depression.
The TALi TRAIN program uses cognitive training to assist children with attention difficulties to improve their attention skills. TALi TRAIN’s game-based cognitive tasks are more engaging than traditional cognitive training interventions, hence making the participant experience less effortful and potentially reducing drop-outs in longer-term interventions.
TALi TRAIN is a digital therapy that consists of 25 x 20-minute gamified sessions, conducted over a five-week period.
A child completes four fun and engaging game-based exercises, with their performance forming the basis of their attention report. As the child progresses, the difficulty and experience changes through adaptive gameplay.
Real-time data is recorded with progress reports available to both parents and healthcare professionals.
Each task in the TALi TRAIN program features a number of targets and distractors that are clearly identified so the child is familiar with the gameplay before commencing the task.
This also involves completing a practice task following the instructions.
Learn more about evidence informing the design of these tasks.
Visual search task
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for orienting attention to objects.
Go/no-go task
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for inhibiting a response deemed inappropriate and avoiding impulsive behaviour, which is an important component of executive function.
Sustained attention task
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for maintaining attention for longer on tasks that are not necessarily engaging or stimulating.
Flanker
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for conflicting information processing, which is an important component of executive function.
TALi TRAIN helps to create a partnership between practitioners and families. Parents can play an active role in supporting their child to learn new skills at home with the support of professional. We like to think of it as helping parents to feed their children vegetables (that taste like chocolate) between clinic visits!
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TALi DETECT was developed under the Cooperative Research Centres Program (CRC-P) from the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.*
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*Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants provide funding for short-term research collaborations. It supports industry-led collaborations between industry, researchers and the community with the aim of fostering high quality research to solve industry-identified problems.
