For my students who struggle with working memory, I tend to notice that many of these children have a difficult time “playing the movie” of what they have heard or read in their heads. When we read a book, we have a visual, what I like to call “a movie” playing, where we can visually […]
This week I talked about some of the auditory memory tasks I use in therapy to help improve memory recall for auditory information. So today I’m sharing an quick freebie that offers a list of associated words as well as 3, 4, 5 digits for immediate and delayed recall. This list is meant for a […]
Last week I talked about a few of my go to visual memory activities and today I’d like to share some of my go to auditory memory activities I use for students who struggle with working memory and memory recall while also exhibiting underlying or comorbid language deficits. For those of you familiar with auditory […]
Last week I introduced the topic of working with students with memory issues. It is my firm belief that not only can we help these students but we are uniquely qualified to do so in order to improve any underlying or comorbid communication deficits that are present. But how do we go about it? Where […]
Ok I’ve read several threads on speech therapy pages discussing how our scope of practice as SLPs do not “cover” working on memory skills. “It’s a psychologist and the special educator’s job. It’s not my problem. Dismiss.” Hold on there buckaroos! I am going to beg to differ here for a few reasons. We have […]
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