What is the Plans in Action game?

An updated game to improve attentional skills in children. Players reproduce the right-side layout on the left with minimal clicks, selecting pieces by clicking squares. The activity targets selective and sustained attention plus inhibitory control and working memory.

What attentional skills does Plans in Action train?

Trains selective attention, sustained attention, inhibitory control, and working memory through visual selection, response inhibition, and sequence replication tasks suitable for attentional skill development.

How does the gameplay task work?

Players copy a model by clicking left-side squares until the correct piece appears, aiming for as few clicks as possible. Users must attend to relevant stimuli and ignore irrelevant ones to complete sequences.

How are levels and progression structured?

The game has twelve stages from easiest (1) to hardest (12). Progression adjusts automatically after a single pass or fail per exercise, and professionals can manually select stages for tailored difficulty.

What customization modes are available?

Two default modes: timed (hidden time limit) and untimed (no limit). Both have no visible timer and require one correct exercise to advance or one failure to move down a stage.

Who is Plans in Action recommended for?

Recommended for children with attentional regulation or inhibitory control difficulties, including ADHD and autism, and for learning difficulties (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia), intellectual disability, or Down syndrome.

Attention Skills Game: Plans in Action

Today we launch the updated game Plans in Action to improve attentional skills in children.

What does this activity involve?

Below, we show you an example of the Plans in Action activity:

What does this activity train?

By doing this game, we are training attentional skills, specifically selective attention and sustained attention, in addition to inhibitory control and working memory.

This activity aims to reproduce the layout, so that what is on the right side is recreated on the left side with as few clicks as possible.

To be able to replicate the sequence, we will have to click on the squares on the left side until the correct piece appears.

During the activity, the user must attend to relevant stimuli and ignore irrelevant ones to complete it.

Play through levels

This children’s game is divided into twelve stages, with the first stage being the easiest and the twelfth the most difficult.

The user will move up or down a level automatically based on their correct responses or mistakes. Additionally, the professional can choose the stage manually.

Activity customization

This activity can be played in the default timed mode or default untimed:

Default timed:

The user will have a maximum time to complete the activity,
there will be no visible timer,
they must pass 1 exercise to advance a stage,
they must fail 1 exercise to move down a stage.

Default untimed:

The user will not have a maximum time to complete the activity,
there will be no visible timer,
they must pass 1 exercise to advance a stage,
they must fail 1 exercise to move down a stage.

Application to daily life

Children should be able to copy models, organize visual information and spatial Follow Instructions. For example, at the Right Now of performing school tasks such as copying information from the board, completing patterns or Follow Instructions.

It can be applied when doing puzzles, for example, building a LEGO, Finish the Drawings or following a map.

Recommended for:

For children with difficulties in attentional regulation and/or inhibitory capacity mainly; as may appear in some neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD and autism; in learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia or dysgraphia; in intellectual disability; and Down syndrome.