After playing a special video game for four weeks, a group of children with sensory processing dysfunction who also suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder showed such noticeable improvements in attention span that a third of them no longer fit the criteria for ADHD, according to a new study.
In the UC San Francisco report, which appeared Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, researchers measured the impact of cognitive training on attention spans among 38 children with the dysfunction, and compared them with 25 typically developing children of the same age and gender.
Sensory processing dysfunction affects 5 percent of all children, according to the American Occupational Therapy Association, and is more prevalent among those with autism and ADHD.
[For more of this story, written by Tracy Seipel, go to http://www.mercurynews.com/201...ay-help-reduce-adhd/]
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