We can experience difficulties with our attention for many reasons, including our commitment to and interest in a task, our skill level for the task, our emotional and physical state, our neuropsychological wiring, and our environment. This handout will help you identify attention skills and strategies that you can practice in your daily student life to deal with impediments to attention. When we talk about cognitive functioning, we often talk about attention as being a “gateway” to all other cognitive functions.
Basically, if you aren’t attentive to something then you aren’t going to be able to learn, remember, or make sense of it.