Introducing Cogmed Working Memory Training
ADD Health & Wellness Centers are proud to present a new home-based resource for our clients. Cogmed Working Memory Training is a new home-based software program developed to help train and increase working memory capacity for children and adults. Through a combination of software-based working memory exercises and personal coaching, participants engage in at home training sessions for 30-45 minutes per day, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks, with the support of our certified trained clinicians.
These fun and enjoyable exercises allow the user to repeat a visual or oral sequence that gradually increases in difficulty as the users’ 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.
New Connection Between Working Memory and Attention
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.
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 www.aboutworkingmemory.org.
Improving Working Memory Can Lead to Better Academic Performance.
Most children with an attention problem also have a working memory deficit which means is difficult for them to stay focused, ignore distractions, plan next steps, remember instructions, start and finish tasks.
Cogmed Working Memory Training is proven to train and improve a child’s working memory and learning. Post training evaluations show this helps kids perform better in school. Simply put, increasing working memory capacity improves attention, impulse control, complex reasoning skills which helps improve overall academic performance.
8 out of 10 Children Show Measurable Improvement
Recent scientific research has shown that working memory deficits are often linked to a wide range of attention problems and by improving the working memory can improve attention, impulse control, complex reasoning skills, and academic performance. Clinical outcomes have shown that 80% of clients have significant improvements in their working memory and have shown tangible and lasting effects even one year post-training.
Validated studies on working memory training and Cogmed can be downloaded from the neuroscience research website at www.klingberglab.se.
ADD Health & Wellness Centers can now provide clinical support for Cogmed Working Memory Training in Boston, Dallas, and Austin. Through weekly phone calls, we can analyze results and provide encouragement that will help participants to be successful. Our personal coaches will introduce working memory training either by phone or in person, provide a detailed start up session, and oversee the child and participating parent each week. The programs lasting effects and impact on the child’s memory can be seen even after the program is completed and will be reviewed by our Clinicians at a one year follow-up evaluation.
For more information, call us at 1-866-324-2088 or visit www.cogmed.com.
Cogmed Working Memory Training In The News
NBC Chicago
A July 31, 2007 feature story on NBC Chicago (WMAQ) covered the story of Peter Schemper, a fourteen year old boy whose ADHD turned simple homework assignments into grueling ordeals. Peter found an answer to these troubles in Cogmed Working Memory Training, which he completed earlier in the year through his psychologist, Dr. Kim Lodewyk. Since the training, he has noticed significant improvements in his ability to focus, listen and articulate when he needs help. "It challenges you a lot,” Peter said of the training, “but it's really helpful."
http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=135913
NBC Cleveland
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.”
http://www.wkyc.com/video/news/health/player.aspx?aid=38573&bw=