Most researchers agree that individuals with attention deficits benefit more from multimodal management plans incorporating counseling, pharmacological, and psychoeducational strategies than any of these strategies alone. A significant impediment to the successful implementation of multimodal management plans is a lack of a common language for clinicians, educators, parents/caregivers, and individuals with attention deficits to use when discussing attention deficits. The goal of the Controls of Attention Project is to provide all stakeholders with a shared language that both specifies the nature and severity of the problem beyond a global label of AD/HD and is explicitly linked to management strategies.
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