Working Memory Training

Wouldn’t it be great to improve your working memory?

To gain control of so many scattered thoughts in your head?  Wouldn’t it be great to just ignore a distraction and not act upon it?  Be calmer?  How about better math  and reading performance?

Working memory training is very effective in doing just that.

As a Certified Cogmed Working Memory Coach, I would like to help you achieve just that.

Cogmed Working Memory Training is a home-based computerized training program that is designed to help children and adults sustainably improve their working memory capacity. Clinically-proven results demonstrate that after training, users increase their ability to concentrate, control impulsive behavior, and better utilize complex reasoning skills. This translates to better academic performance as well as work performance.

This training is done at home on your computer for 30-45 minutes per day, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks, with my support as a certified Cogmed coach.  Through a combination of software-based working memory exercises you will repeat a visual or oral sequence that gradually increases in difficulty as your abilities improve.  By remembering and manipulating information in very brief periods of time, the user develops skills essential for countless activities including organization and problem solving.

What is Working Memory?

Working memory is the ability to keep information in your mind for a short time (20sec), focus on a task and remember what to do next. It is a crucial component of attention. Many individuals, such as children and adults with ADD or ADHD, persons with learning disabilities and victims of stroke or traumatic brain injury, suffer from impaired working memory.  However, keep in mind that as we age, our working memory does fail us naturally and many adults are gaining that working memory back through Cogmed training.

Scientific evidence indicates that children and adults with attention deficits significantly improve their working memory with sustained exercises and can, in fact, reach the working memory level for their age group.

For information on working memory and attention, visit Cogmed’s site at  www.aboutworkingmemory.org

Cogmed Working Memory Training In The News

- NBC Cleveland, OH

A July 10, 2007 segment that aired on NBC Cleveland (WKYC) tells the story of Chris Tonelli, a 20 year old whose lifelong struggle with ADHD negatively impacted his professional life. Through his physician, Dr. Lavin, Chris completed Cogmed Working Memory Training and has seen the benefits at work. “With ADHD my mind was going a million miles a minute” Chris said, “This was something that really let me slow down and think.”

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