Helping Students Remember

A hands-on memory-training program for children and adolescents featuring dozens of practical, evidence-based memory exercises
A practical workbook designed to assist students whose academic learning is suffering due to a memory deficit or ineffective utilization of their memory capabilities, Helping Students Remember provides numerous strategies and methods to strengthen memory, including chunking, organization, keyword, self-testing, pegword, loci, and mnemonics.

Drawing on the author's extensive training and experience, this useful resource presents effective techniques and lessons on:

How memory works

Memorization methods

Goals for improving memory

Repetition

Using cards to build memory

Grouping words by category

Study skills that help memory

Using arithmetic to build memory

Using music to remember

Improving recall during tests

Creating and using review sheets

Picturing verbal information

Using context cues

Plans for using memory strategies

With an accompanying CD containing all of the worksheets and word lists for reproduction, Helping Students Remember is the first workbook of its kind for general psychologists, school psychologists, and special education teachers, offering practical, easy-to-implement, and evidence-based methods for working with children with memory impairments.