“Researchers in the UK have been testing a thought-operated computer system to reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children. The system, called Play Attention, involves the child playing a fun, educational computer game while wearing a helmet. The helmet picks up brain activity in the form of EEG waves related to attention. As long as the child concentrates they control the game — as soon as their attention waivers the game stops.” 
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“Play Attention made sense to me,” says Morrison, who’d consulted with numerous doctors and tried various treatments and mental exercises for her own son Jack, who was the same age as Bobby and suffering from ADHD. “…It’s like having a weak muscle in your body and they send you to physical therapy and you gradually strengthen that muscle.” (Read more)
During his first few years of teaching, Asheville resident Peter Freer ’86 MAEd ’93 met a young boy named John who became the inspiration behind a technology that would eventually lead Freer to speak to a United Nations agency.
John had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, then called “minimal brain dysfunction,” and was highly disruptive in class. Freer wasnt sure how to handle John in the classroom because he had never before encountered a student with the disorder….(Read more)
Andy plays games on a computer without ever touching the keyboard or the mouse. He dons a helmet, and with hands and fingers motionless, he flies a jet over mountain tops or constructs a tower by moving blocks. Should he fidget or lapse in concentration, he loses control over the characters on the screen. (Read more)
Thanks to Play Attention, Jordan is controlling the impulse, curbing his fidgeting and focusing his attention better these days. “He’s gained more ability to focus on tasks he didn’t want to do,” says his mother, Jeri. “He has skills he can call upon now. He learned coping mechanisms that work for him.” (Read more)
