Attention-Deficit Disorder Prevention and Auxiliary Treatment with Your Voice Reminder

I became curious what is ADHD and how Your Voice Reminder (YVR) may help and did some study. I came to the conclusion that Your Voice Reminder indeed may help, especially for children. I will outline the theory behind it later and first discuss how to use YVR to help sustain the attention. To be specific we discuss children but the same method should work for adults also.

Disclaimer: I don't suggest Your Voice Reminder instead medications but rather as a kind of the behavioral therapy. As for the medications you should follow you doctor prescription. However I believe that Your Voice Reminder may help and certainly do no harm.

Using Your Voice Reminder to Develop the Attention Skill

1. Estimate you child "attention span", in other words, how long your child attention lasts, e.g. when he/she does the homework. Let us assume that the attention span is about 15 minutes.
2. Record the voice message in Your Voice Reminder of the type "Tell yourself aloud that you should do your homework and do it!" It may be more fun if your child records the message. Than it will look like he/she tells it her/himself.
3. Set the Your Voice Reminder alarm to repeat the message every 15 minutes.

Similar, first child will ask her/himself to do the homework aloud, than silently, than unconsciously. When it becomes unconscious he/she does not need the reminder anymore to sustain the attention.

If you have other ideas how to use Your Voice Reminder for the attention training or what features to add, please, contact me via the support page or the news blog. I usually answer in 24 hours.
Vadim Motorine.

Facts about the Attention Learning

• Attention span increases with age.
• The typical attention span of the infants is just two seconds.
• Even for adults an individual's focus of attention can only last 30 seconds, but can be re-focused at will.
• Medication treatment when combined with the behavioral treatment usually gives better result and children could be successfully treated with lower doses of medicine.
• Attention is a learnable response.
• Stages of learning:
  1. unconscious incompetence
  2. conscious incompetence
  3. conscious competence
  4. unconscious competence.
  For the unconscious competence "the skill becomes so practised that it enters the unconscious parts of the brain - it becomes "second nature" "

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