Tasks move from simple sustained attention to alternating and divided attention with response delays and auditory distractors. A clinician’s page lets you tailor each exercise to specific memory needs.

Tasks move from simple sustained attention to alternating and divided attention with response delays and auditory distractors. A clinician’s page lets you tailor each exercise to specific memory needs.

Evidence Base: Findings from a study using a dual-processing task suggest that children with SLI have difficulty holding on to multiple pieces of linguistic information simultaneously. Weismer and her colleagues hypothesize that this difficulty is due to restrictions in working memory capacity (Weismer, 1999).
Evidence Base: It has been demonstrated that working memory plays a crucial role in inhibiting distractions and controlling selective attention (Fockert et. al., 2001). Baddeley’s model of working memory postulates that damage to the central executive—that coordinates a group of temporary storage systems—would most likely significantly limit a person’s ability to process information and cope with everyday life (Baddeley, 1984).