Test for Assessment of Asymmetry of Voluntary Visual Attention: Practical Relevance, Standards, the Problem of Technique Validation
The article considers the experience of applying the technique “Test for asymmetry of voluntary visual attention” in the group of children and adults of “relative norm” and in the group of children with developmental disorders of various genesis. Evalu- ation of the asymmetry of visual attention is recom- mended in the clinical and psychological diagnosis of children and adolescents. It allows to identify abnormal lateralization of functions in various developmental disorders, to reveal features of disturbance of the formation of functional systems of voluntary attention in various types of endogenous pathology. The method is applicable for identify- ing children of a “risk group”, children “with learning difficulties”. The advantages of the technique in practical application in comparison with other methods of diagnostics of attention are considered.