December 2025, UK – Peili Vision, an innovative neurocognitive assessment provider based at innovation hub Nexus, has partnered with a West Yorkshire school to demonstrate that targeted interventions can significantly improve children’s attention and executive function.
Over 12 weeks, a local school ran an executive function intervention with 10 students. Assessments using Peili Vision’s EFSim tool, conducted before and after the programme, revealed that 66% of participants advanced from the “severe” to the “moderate” category for attention and executive function. This highlights the substantial potential for tracking and improving cognitive skills in young people facing ADHD-related challenges.
The results of this intervention also challenge the long-standing assumption that symptoms of ADHD and associated attention difficulties are static and unchangeable.
The gamified EFSim assessment, which simulates day-to-day tasks in the home environment, not only tracks progress but can also predict ADHD with 88% accuracy according to early evidence. It gives families early insights into exactly where their child may be struggling and provides automatically generated reports with targeted strategies parents can use to offer tailored support.
Ari Billig of Peili Vision said: “These results are hugely encouraging for any family or school supporting young people with attention difficulties. They demonstrate that with the right tools and regular tracking, children can measurably improve their attention and executive function skills. This is especially important as so many children face lengthy waits for a formal ADHD assessment.
“We look forward to building on this success and rolling out our approach more widely, including working with an Integrated Care Board for our next pilot.”
A teacher shared feedback about the tool’s transformative impact on one pupil: “One 10-year-old had long struggled to keep up, often swinging between high energy and difficulty completing simple tasks. The EFSim report captured his challenges perfectly, and his mum was emotional reading the findings. Its recommendations helped us ease his daily load and better support his needs.”
These school-based trials come at a crucial time, as England faces a growing ADHD crisis. Around 2.5 million people are estimated to have ADHD, including 740,000 children and young adults, and more than half a million people are still waiting for an assessment.
Peili Vision is expected to launch a formal pilot with an Integrated Care Board soon. Meanwhile, strong results are already emerging from West Yorkshire schools and Peili Vision has opened up its tool to be available for schools and parents to directly access from their website as well.
Founded in Finland in 2015 and active in the UK since 2023, Peili Vision has its headquarters at Nexus, the University of Leeds’ innovation hub, where it continues to develop evidence-based solutions for education and healthcare.
