Play Attention

Attention Problems and Behavior Problems
What’s the connection and can they be fixed?

For an ADHD child who’s experienced failure or frustration at school, has a difficult time making friends, cannot process multiple step instructions, and who likely has poor self-esteem, defiance or misbehavior seem inevitable.

The off switch or filtering in their brains works differently, so they often have impulse control issues and a frequent lack of control over what they blurt out. Couple that with failure and frustration, and you have the perfect storm. No matter what you do; punishment, coaxing, bribing, yelling, pleading etc. don’t seem to work.

Play Attention not only teaches attention by making it concrete and controllable — Play Attention students can move screen characters by mind alone via BodyWave technology — but also teaches a variety of skills that make them successful at school or work. These successes greatly improve behavior.

Additionally, and this is important, since they can see their attention in real time, Play Attention makes it readily apparent that misbehaviour negatively affects their success during game play. Success is predicated on their ability to stay in control and attentive. It’s simple to correlate this to being a classroom superstar. Play Attention students learn to self-regulate or control their own behavior. This is the basis of the behavior shaping program built into Play Attention (it took us over 5 years to develop it).

Psychometric Assessments

Psychometric Assessments are the turf of study concerned with the theory and system of psychological measurement. One part of the field is concerned with the impartial measurement of skills and knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and educational achievement. For example, psychometric assessments research has concerned itself with the creation and justification of assessment apparatuses such as questionnaires, tests, and personality tests. Another part of the arena is concerned with arithmetic research bearing on quantitative theory. Thus, psychometric assessments involve two major research tasks one being the construction of apparatuses and processes for measurement and the other expansion and modification of theoretical approaches to measurement. All psychometric practitioners possess a specific Psychometric Assessments prerequisite, and while most are psychologists with advanced graduate training in psychometric assessments testing. Many work in human resources departments. Others specialize as learning and development professionals.