When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscalculia and Working Memory

By Dr. Tracy Alloway | January 25, 2012 |

Jacob’s moth­er writes that ‘Jacob, 10-years-old, still strug­gles with num­ber bonds to 10. Learn­ing to tell the time is still slow – he has not mas­tered half-past. Although he man­aged to learn his 5x tables because we prac­ticed all sum­mer, this has now gone’. Jacob has dyscal­cu­lia, a math dis­abil­i­ty where stu­dents strug­gle to learn or…

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Comparing Working Memory Training & Medication Treatment for ADHD

By Dr. David Rabiner | August 26, 2009

Work­ing mem­o­ry (WM) is the cog­ni­tive sys­tem respon­si­ble for the tem­po­rary stor­age and manip­u­la­tion of infor­ma­tion and plays an impor­tant role in both learn­ing and focus­ing atten­tion. Con­sid­er­able research has doc­u­ment­ed that many chil­dren and adults with ADHD have WM deficits and that this con­tributes to dif­fi­cul­ties asso­ci­at­ed with the dis­or­der. For an excel­lent introduction…

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