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Full Description

This program is for treating impairments in attentional processing in persons with relatively mild cognitive disturbance, such as post-concussion syndrome.

Activities address difficulties with sustained attention, slowed speed of information processing, distractability, shifting attention between multiple tasks, and paying attention to more than one source of information at a time.

What is APT-2 ?

•A library of auditory attention CDs and hierarchically organized attention exercises grouped according to specific types of attention disorders

•Generalization program with suggested activities, record logs, and data collection protocols to facilitate generalization from the clinic to real world settings

Who can use it?

Neuropsychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, cognitive remediation specialists, and special education specialists.

What’s in the manual?

The APT-2 manual explains how to administer the attention training program and methods for scoring and analyzing client performance. All clinical and generalization tasks contain data collection graphs and charts, detailed task descriptions, and suggestions for increasing or decreasing task difficulty level.

APT-2 includes...

•216 page manual

•46 activity sheets and forms

•6 audio CDs

•2 marking pens

•4 response clickers

•stopwatch

•CD with PDF files scoresheets.

Results

  • Improved post treatment results on standardized measures
  • improved discrete components of attention
  • generalization of gains to functional tasks and return to work.

Treatment

Principles of Treatment:

  • work from a theoretcial model
  • use therapy programs that are hierarchically organized
  • repetition
  • data based
  • facilitate generalization
  • measure change in community functioning

Overview of Attention Process Training II

Neuroanatomy of attention

Introduction to APT II

Population

Types of Attention

Developed by McKay Moore Sohlberg, Ph.D. and Catherine Mateer, Ph.D., the APT2 program is for adolescents, adults and veterans with mild cognitive impairments and attention disorders due to acquired brain injury. The APT2 program uses audio CDs for therapy tasks and PDF files for score sheets.

  • TBI
  • Post concussive syndrome
  • MS
  • ADD
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Chemical toxicity
  • Immunodeficiency syndrome

  • Focused attention
  • Sustained attention
  • Selective attention
  • Alternating attention
  • Divided attention
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