• Poor Working Memory is closely connected with ADHD

  Working Memory allows us to remember and process information. We also use working memory to act appropriately in classroom settings. Because of poor Working Memory, children with ADHD can’t remember information because they can’t focus on it long enough to make it stick. They can’t process what little they can remember, because when they try, their thought processes are disrupted. When they should be listening to the teacher, all too often they are acting out their impulses.

• ADHD and Working Memory in the Classroom

  Miss Zane, a fifth grade teacher from Anaheim school district in California, read out a word problem to the class for them to copy down: ‘Bob had 3 apples. His friend Timmy gave him 2 more apples. How many apples does Bob have?’
  Jim, a student diagnosed with ADHD, had gotten out of his seat when Miss Zane was explaining what to do, so he was already at a disadvantage. He glanced at his classmate’s paper, wrote down ‘Bob’ and ‘3 apples’, but couldn’t remember the rest because he started thinking about what he had in his lunchbox. Remembering there was something he needed to do, he looked over at his classmate’s paper again, but by then Miss Zane had started reading a new problem. So, he started to write it down, but mixed it up with the first problem and ended up getting both of them wrong.
  Jim’s poor Working Memory didn’t allow him to say no to the impulse to let his attention drift to lunch, it didn’t allow him to remember the full question, and it didn’t allow him to concentrate solving it.

• Good News for the Student with ADHD

  Jim doesn’t need to struggle and his working memory has given him all the tools he needs to manage his behavior, and remember and process information. We frequently receive reports of parents and teachers who have had their children’s lives transformed by Jungle Memory. By putting their brains through the Jungle Memory workout, they have learnt to flex their Working Memory muscles, resulting in improvements in some of the symptoms of ADHD.*

• Game 1: Quicksand

  Is designed to help students quickly filter through incoming text and inhibit responses to distracting information.

• Game 2: Code Breaker

  Is designed to train Working Memory necessary for keeping the right information in mind long enough to process and understand it.

• Game 3: River Crossing

  Is designed to help students mentally organize information and successfully monitor multiple tasks at the same time.

*Note: Jungle Memory is not intended as a substitute for physican-precribed medication or advice. Individual results may vary.

• Clinical Trials with Dyslexia Scotland

  Clinical trials with Dyslexia Scotland demonstrate that Dyslexic students who used Jungle Memory regularly had higher scores in tests of IQ, working memory, and language.

• Poor Working Memory is associated with dyslexia

  Reading is a complex mental activity that relies heavily on Working Memory. Working Memory allows us to process and remember information, a key feature of reading. To read, we have to link letters together to form words, and keep them in mind when we read the next set of words. Because of poor Working Memory, dyslexic students struggle to process the letters that make up a word and they also can’t hold them in mind to make sense of the sentence.

• Dyslexia and Working Memory in the Classroom

  Karen, a bright 8-year-old student in Scotland, was extremely articulate and bright in conversation. She was always talkative whenever she spoke in class. But, if there was an activity that required her to read either from a book or from the board, she was very quiet and withdrawn. She often set her pencil down and gave up before completing the assignment. She was a very slow reader. Every time she tried, she felt that ‘the letters fell out of her brain’ and she couldn’t make sense of the words on the page. Because her working memory wasn’t big enough, she was unable to process the letters into words. And because it took her so long to read, when she was able to make sense of the words, she couldn’t remember them long enough to understand the sentences they formed.

• Good News for the Dyslexic Student

  Jungle Memory can help Karen develop the Working Memory skills needed to improve her reading. Clinical trials demonstrate that dyslexic students who used Jungle Memory regularly had higher scores in tests of IQ, working memory, and language. By putting their brains through the Jungle Memory workout, they learn to flex their Working Memory muscles, resulting in improvements in reading skills.*

• Game 1: Quicksand

  Is designed to improve processing speed for letters and words, and helps make letter and word recognition more automatic.

• Game 2: Code Breaker

  Is designed to train visual Working Memory skills necessary for reading comprehension.

• Game 3: River Crossing

  Challenges them to manage two tasks simultaneously and update relevant information in working memory.

*Note: Jungle Memory is not intended as a substitute for physican-precribed medication or advice. Individual results may vary.

• Clinical Trials with Autism Treatment Trust

  Clinical trials with Autism Treatment Trust demonstrate that students with ASD who used Jungle Memory regularly had higher scores in tests of IQ, working memory, and language. Read more

• Poor Working Memory is linked to ASD language and communication problems

  Working Memory allows us to remember and process information. Children with ASD struggle with Verbal Working Memory. This means that when faced with a situation that requires them to process verbal information, like a conversation, or a spoken set of instructions, they will give up half-way through and act out in frustration.

• Autism and Working Memory in the Classroom

  Joseph had ASD and was fortunate that his parents had found a school that took his unique needs into account. Now, he experienced fewer social problems, and he even found a good friend who helped him play with others during recess. But, Joseph still found problems in the classroom. He found that when he tried to follow the teacher’s instructions, he could got caught up in one of the steps, and quickly lost track of what he was supposed to do. For example, when his teacher told them that ‘You can use the colored counting blocks to help you with your multiplication problems,’ Joseph fixated on the different sizes and colors of the blocks, and soon forgot what he was supposed to be using them for.

• Good News for the Student with Autism

  Jungle Memory can help Joseph in the classroom, because it trains his Working Memory to make him more cognitively flexible. Clinical studies show that Jungle Memory improves IQ, Working Memory, and grades for students with ASD. This means that students like Joseph can respond better to the dynamic and changing environment of the classroom. He will be able to understand better what is expected of him, and to manage more than one task, without giving up.*

• Game 1: Quicksand

  Is designed to help them quickly recognize and process words frequently used in communication, freeing them up to focus their attention on word meanings.

• Game 2: Code Breaker

  Is designed to enhance their recognition of visual cues.

• Game 3: River Crossing

  Is designed to help them manipulate and recall randomized information in order to develop an expanded range of attention and a flexible approach to completing multiple tasks.

*Note: Jungle Memory is not intended as a substitute for physican-precribed medication or advice. Individual results may vary.

• Dyspraxia and Working Memory in the Classroom

  Tom, a 13-year-old freshman, was finding high school difficult. While he had been able to just squeeze through in junior high, the detailed subjects were getting the better of him. He found that not only was he expected to memorize the information, he had to work with it in more complex ways than previously. His dyspraxia also affected his fine motor skills, which meant that his writing was slower than others. In Chemistry class, he couldn’t take notes fast enough to follow what was being explained on the board. His poor working memory made it even harder and didn’t allow him to do more than one activity, so when he was able to scribble something down, he couldn’t follow the lesson at the same time, and lost his place.

• Good News for the Student with Dyspraxia

  By training Tom’s Visual Working Memory skills, he will become a better student. Students with dyspraxia have motor difficulties, but scientific evidence* shows that improving motor skills won’t improve grades. Jungle Memory targets the areas that most matter for students with Dyspraxia and lets them gain the confidence and ability to succeed in the classroom.**

• Game 1: Quicksand

  Is designed to help them speed up their visual skills in reading so they can excel with assignments that require them to work quickly.

• Game 2: Code Breaker

  Is designed to target Visual Working Memory to keep track of information on the board with information that have written down.

• Game 3: River Crossing

  Is designed to hones their ability to work with numerous pieces of information, while keeping sight of the big picture.

*Reference: The Effect of Task-Specific Training on Learning and Memory in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 107, 273-280.

**Note: Jungle Memory is not intended as a substitute for physican-precribed medication or advice. Individual results may vary.

• Poor Working Memory is at the heart of Low Grades

  Scientific studies show that 1 in 10 children have a poor Working Memory, which causes Low Grades.* Working Memory is the foundation of learning. Our ability to remember and process information allows us to understand the complexities of a wide range of subjects. While most students may be able to recognize letters, some struggle with mentally processing these letters into words, slowing them down during reading. They also can forget the letters as they look from their paper to the board when copying information. While many recognize numbers, they get bogged down when thinking through math problems and abandon the task. By improving their Working Memory, they will be able to remember and process information at the same time, dramatically improving their opportunities for success.

• Low Grades and Working Memory in the Classroom

  Laurie was socially intelligent, and was very popular with her classmates, and always had a joke to hand. But, she struggled in the classroom. She was always the last one to finish her assignments, she made mistakes when copying from the board, and she usually forget the right book for her lessons. She didn’t have a specific learning disability, like dyslexia or ADHD, and her parents knew that she could do better. When Mrs. Schmidt wrote down a math problem on the blackboard, (5+4)6-7=? and asked her students to write it down and solve it. Laurie started writing the number ‘5’ but lost her place and then wrote ‘-7’. She thought there were more numbers in the problems, so she looked up, and wrote down 6+4. Now, the problem on her paper didn’t look at all like the problem on the board and she didn’t realize it until she tried to solve it. By the time she looked up again, more problems had been written down on the board, and she forgot the one she was working on. Laurie’s poor working memory meant that she couldn’t remember the information and so she got bogged down when trying to solve the math problems.

• Good News for Students with Low Grades

  Jungle Memory can help Laurie develop the Working Memory skills critical to help Laurie improve her grades. If the tackles the source of the problem, her Working Memory, she will be able to succeed where other approaches have failed. A clinical trial showed that students who trained their Working Memory with Jungle Memory, did better than students who tried to improve their grades with after-school sessions with a tutor.** By improving her Working Memory, Laurie will be able to focus, and remember and process information, and be equipped to handle any classroom activity that comes her way. She will be able to achieve the grades that her parents and teachers know she is capable of.

• Game 1: Quicksand

  Is designed to increase their focus and concentration, helps them ignore distractions, and process information more quickly, skills that will improve their grades.

• Game 2: Code Breaker

  Is designed to train visual Working Memory in relation to letter recognition, spatial rotation, and processing, which is critical for any activities that involve reading, writing, and logical processing.

• Game 3: River Crossing

  Is designed to help them apply number knowledge to solve increasingly complex math operations and use their Working Memory to remember and process information, while completing multiple problems.

*Reference: The cognitive and behavioural characteristics of children with low working memory. Child Development, 80, 606-621.

**Reference: Can interactive working memory training improving learning? Journal of Interactive Learning Research.

Note: Jungle Memory is not intended as a substitute for physican-precribed medication or advice. Individuals results may vary.