Clarisse Marquis Colvard earned her Doctorate of Speech-Language Pathology in 2018. She has over 40 years' experience as a speech language pathologist. Clarisse developed the speech-language pathology program at Thomason Hospital in 1991 and in 1994 she founded the Silva Clinic, an outpatient clinical habilitation and rehabilitation center serving all ages and demographics. Clarisse and her colleagues continue to provide individualized speech-language pathology services which empower the patient and family and facilitate excellent patient outcomes.
WHAT IS WORKING MEMORY?
Working memory is active and a “mental workspace” for temporarily storing and managing the information used to plan thoughts/actions, comprehend reading and math problems, and use current information in our everyday lives.
Working memory impairment can present in an inability to complete daily activities and difficulty staying on task.
Signs of working memory Deficit:
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Difficulties completing tasks that require a large amount of information
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Difficulty starting and following tasks with a complex set of directions
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Inattentive behavior due to losing their place during a task
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A tendency to lose track of belongings
A DEFICIT IN WORKING MEMORY IMPACTS:
Following directions to successfully complete a task
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Difficulty remembering incoming instruction information while trying to access how to actually do what is being asked.
Reading comprehension
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Being able to recognize words in sentences is difficult when visual working memory is impaired
Mathematic ability
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Maintaining numeral information and accessing the necessary operation for the math problem is difficult, leaving children with less information to work with
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