In breaking news, the US Department of Education and Office for Civil Rights have released their a letter from Asst Secretary Catherine Lhamon and its Students with ADHD and Section 504 Resource Guide HERE. For your convenience, we also include them below -...
Divide and Conquer: Working Memory Hacks [Premium]
“Divida et Impera.” – Julius Caesar There’s an old military strategy of Divide and Conquer that’s been in operation even before Julius Caesar’s Divida et Impera (Divide and Rule), and it turns out divide and conquer can be helpful if you’re dyslexic too. Recently, we were asked by a professional colleague about the most common cognitive pattern we see in dyslexic individuals. Verbal reasoning and not uncommonly spatial reasoning are high, but working memory and processing speed are slow. How could it be, she asked that fund of knowledge and reasoning ability are so high though working memory is much lower or even quite low? The reason there is no tight connection between these cognitive groups is that working memory is not an index of total memory (for […]