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Both auditory and visual exercises are presented. The first three games could be classified as decontextualized activities in that they are specific-skill driven. The subsequent three games apply the skills to functional attention and memory tasks. Having both types of activities woven into an overall treatment plan allows for specific instruction on areas of weakness and immediate practice with generalization tasks encountered in everyday life.

Clinician’s Page You can use the pre-defined progression or use the clinicians page to tailor each game to the specific needs of the client.	Functional Memory Three levels in this game train auditory discrimination; sound and word sequencin; and auditory and visual memory.	7±2 7±2 combines the scanning and rehearsal exercises tolearn how to learn a list of items. Start with numbers and progress to abstract shapes.
Scanning Single out and find the target in a field of increasing visual complexity. Requires sustained attention, vigilance, discrimination, memory, and inhibition of responses.	And one more thing... This exercise combines all of the memory exercises into a real world context where the previously learned strategies can be practiced. Listen to a list of items to remember from contextual speech.	Change One stimulus at a time is shown and you decide whether you should respond to the stimulus or inhibit a response. Periodically the target will “Change” and you will respond to the opposite target.

Benchmark Pre-K: Evidence Base: Progress through the computer-assisted protocol provides systematic intervention that addresses: executive functions, memory strategies, verbal mediation, visual-perceptual discrimination, reading comprehension, and functional application of memory strategies to daily activities (Scarry-Larkin, 2004).
Evidence Base: “Teaching working-memory strategies may thus provide a more efficient treatment approach than working piecemeal on several language goals” (Montgomery, 2002).

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Engaging and
demanding tasks