Attention

Attention is the ability to stay focused and concentrate for learning in a variety of situations.

Children with good attention skills:

• Maintain focus in group settings
• Remember information and follow through to complete tasks
• Filter extraneous noise/activity
• Remember and execute daily routines

Characteristics of attention limitations include the inability to stay focused, manage time, and hold information long enough to complete a task.

How the Well Screening can help

Subtest 2: Number Sequences measures the ability to keep information active (i.e., hold information in short-term memory) while processing it. The child listens to and repeats a sequence of numbers beginning with 2-digit sequences through 5-digit sequences.