TALi DETECT

Attention encompasses an individual’s capacity to sustain, direct, maintain, control their focus and behaviour. Appraisal of attentional skills are an important component of comprehensive childhood assessments where concerns for learning or behaviour are present as attention is strongly associated with the ability to learn, regulate emotions, socialise, and achieve (Diamond, 2013; Pondé et al., 2012; Ribner, 2020). Serious games
offer clinicians an innovative method with which to assess attention development in young children that can increase motivation and engagement (Fleming et al., 2017; Khaleghi et al., 2021; Lumsden et al., 2016). Despite significant potential, adoption of serious games by clinicians is complicated by the need for tools that are informed by robust theory, have strong psychometric properties, are designed for the correct population with recent norms, and that are supported by rigorous research (American Psychological Association, 2020, 2021; Australian Psychological Society, 2018; Pratt et al., 2018). This benchmark for design and evidence is rarely met; resulting in few digital tools qualifying for clinical use (Byambasuren et al., 2019; Lui et al., 2017; Marshall et al., 2020; Torous et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018).