Help for Memory: Handbook for Exercises for Language Processing (8 Thru Adult, 1) by Andrea M. Lazzari (1996-05-03)

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From the Linguisystems website:These exercises incorporate a broad range of skills to help your clients find the memory strategies that will work best for them. Using attention, discrimination, categorization, and association, clients work through a hierarchy to build skill upon skill. A variety of tasks and stimulus items cover these areas:identifying and selecting critical elements of a messagecoding and grouping items for recallusing chunking, note-taking, outlining, & other strategiesapplying memory techniques to daily life skillsThe goal of HELP for Memory is not necessarily to expand or improve an individual's memory. Instead, it provides systematic training in memory strategies to aid in recall.HELP for Memory targets the eight-year-old to adult population. Stimulus items are arranged in order from the easiest to the most difficult whenever possible. IEP goals are presented at the bottom of each page to further explain the individual tasks as well as to assist in writing goals. Carryover activities expand and reinforce individual tasks and help integrate therapy objectives into the classroom and everyday life.As with all the HELP books, clinician discretion is essential in selecting and modifying tasks to best meet each client's individual needs. Since individual approaches to organizing and recalling information vary, some strategies will prove more helpful to one client than others. Work with each client to decide which strategies are most helpful.