Attention is fundamental to cognitive development and social relationships, and plays an important role in maintaining mental health.
Children with attention problems struggle to focus their mind on a task, to listen, to absorb information or to control impulsive behaviours and emotional outbursts. This can impact other aspects of their lives—at school, home, in social situations and, eventually, their academic achievement and employment opportunities.
Attention can be thought of as a broad term that describes the different processes we use to actively understand our environments. There are a number of types of attention, with the most common areas being Selective Attention, Sustained Attention and Executive Attention.
Selective attention is the ability to orient your attention to specific objects in the environment that are relevant to your task.
Sustained Attention is the ability to maintain an alert state and focus on a task.
Executive attention is the ability to regulate our responses and refocus from one task or activity to another.
At a behavioural level, there are three core symptoms of attention difficulties. They are:
Talking over the top of others, having a ‘short fuse’, being accident-prone, destroying things in moments of anger and impatient in waiting their turn.
Difficulty concentrating, forgetting instructions, moving from one task to another without completing anything, difficulty with organising instructions.
Constant restlessness, always on the move, inability to sit still, fidgeting, excessive talking and acting without thinking.
TALi's digital therapeutic programs provide fun, quick and easy to use attention screening tests and access to early interventions for children at the peak of their neuroplasticity.
TALi DETECT is a 20-30 minute
evidence-based digital screening program comprised of cognitive performance tasks to determine how a child’s attention skills are developing against their peers.
TALi TRAIN is a digital cognitive training program that has been clinically tested and indicated to improve selective attention and numeracy skills, as well as improvements in inattentive and hyperactive behaviour in some children.
Twenty to thirty minutes is all it takes to get a personal assessment of your child’s attention abilities.
Start your child’s attention assessmentIf your child is aged zero to six and has a developmental delay or disability, they may be able to receive support from the NDIS.
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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.
