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WHY would a fourteen year old have such a poor short term memory? Any ideas?
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<blockquote data-quote="aeroeng" data-source="post: 384731" data-attributes="member: 6557"><p>I understand the studying all night and not remembering anything. For me it is spelling. If you give me 10 words I don't know how to spell (from 5 to 8 letters long) and tell me to learn them. I will write each one down 50 time as setting three setting a day. At the end of one week I will have written each word down over a 1000 times. Yet when tested I am lucky if I remember 50%. I can remember every every thing else, just not spelling (well and directions to places). One therapist called it "like water on a ducks back, just beads up and rolls off".</p><p></p><p>Now I can remember other things in my live, and (as you can tell because you are reading something I wrote) I have learned a way around it. For example: Where I can not remember how to spell a word, or write the word down with a pencil, when I type the word I will frequently type them correctly. It seems the finger memory comes from a different place in my brain, and I can remember things kinetically.</p><p></p><p>So I believe she probably can learn, but you need to find out what modality works for her. visual, audio, kinetically, Can she remember more when she sings her notes? Write them on the board with long strokes of her arms? Studies pictures of the subject? For me the only way to learn how to spell a new word is to study them phonemically. I had trouble with the word "Satellite", I kept writing "Satilight". I had to make three "rules" for myself. 1) the second vowel is an "short e sound not a short i". 2) the long i sound dose not use that dam "igh" spelling it is the "i contestant e" one. 3) two "l"s. By thinking about the rules first I can then reconstruct the spelling. After reconstructing the spelling about ten times, I can then start spelling it correctly. This process is a lot of work but works better then writing it down 1000 times and using drill cards all night, which never worked.</p><p></p><p>I can't give you her procedure, as it will be totally different, but I am sure there is one. And you already know that what she needs (and is legally entitled to) is the Special Education services. I have no good advice for pursuing it. <a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wrightslaw.com/</a> has good advice on how to obtain Special Education services.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aeroeng, post: 384731, member: 6557"] I understand the studying all night and not remembering anything. For me it is spelling. If you give me 10 words I don't know how to spell (from 5 to 8 letters long) and tell me to learn them. I will write each one down 50 time as setting three setting a day. At the end of one week I will have written each word down over a 1000 times. Yet when tested I am lucky if I remember 50%. I can remember every every thing else, just not spelling (well and directions to places). One therapist called it "like water on a ducks back, just beads up and rolls off". Now I can remember other things in my live, and (as you can tell because you are reading something I wrote) I have learned a way around it. For example: Where I can not remember how to spell a word, or write the word down with a pencil, when I type the word I will frequently type them correctly. It seems the finger memory comes from a different place in my brain, and I can remember things kinetically. So I believe she probably can learn, but you need to find out what modality works for her. visual, audio, kinetically, Can she remember more when she sings her notes? Write them on the board with long strokes of her arms? Studies pictures of the subject? For me the only way to learn how to spell a new word is to study them phonemically. I had trouble with the word "Satellite", I kept writing "Satilight". I had to make three "rules" for myself. 1) the second vowel is an "short e sound not a short i". 2) the long i sound dose not use that dam "igh" spelling it is the "i contestant e" one. 3) two "l"s. By thinking about the rules first I can then reconstruct the spelling. After reconstructing the spelling about ten times, I can then start spelling it correctly. This process is a lot of work but works better then writing it down 1000 times and using drill cards all night, which never worked. I can't give you her procedure, as it will be totally different, but I am sure there is one. And you already know that what she needs (and is legally entitled to) is the Special Education services. I have no good advice for pursuing it. [URL]http://www.wrightslaw.com/[/URL] has good advice on how to obtain Special Education services. [/QUOTE]
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