A home-based intervention for attentional slips during reading following head injury: A single case study

Abstract

In the absence of evidence of generalisation of computer-based attention training effects to everyday life, a single-case, goal setting methodology employing simple materials was used to train a head-injured subject to reduce the frequency of attention slips during reading. The intervention was carried out at home from 9–13 months post-injury, before the subject attempted to return to work. Training initially led to his being able to read a novel for 5 minutes without a slip when there was no distraction. Further training against background noise led to a statistically significant reduction in frequency of attention slips while reading a technical text, a measure used throughout the study.