Spring Fling 2010 – Mar. 27, 2010 Print

Date: March 27, 2010

Time: 9:00am to 4:00pm

Location: Willows Golf Club House, Saskatoon, SK

Featuring: Dr. Milton Dehn

Topic: Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and Intervention

 


 

news_spring10_1 Dr. Milton Dehn, Author of Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and Intervention

Milton Dehn, Ed.D., NCSP, is a nationally recognized speaker on cognitive processing assessment and working memory. Dr. Dehn is the author of Essentials of Processing Assessment and Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and Intervention. After working as a school psychologist and training school psychology graduate students for many years, Dr. Dehn is now a private practice school psychologist in Wisconsin and the program director for Schoolhouse Tutoring®, an agency that provides assessment, consultation, tutoring, and memory training for children with learning and memory problems.

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Working memory plays a critical, integral role in cognitive functioning and academic learning. Academic skills and performance depend heavily on working memory.

The main purpose of this workshop is to provide psychologists with expertise in:

  • Contemporary working memory theory
  • Current working memory tests and assessment procedures
  • Evidence-based interventions

Information will be provided on:

  • Working memory subprocesses
  • Phonological
  • Visuospatial
  • Episodic
  • Verbal
  • Executive

The assessment portion of the workshop will include:

  • Working memory measurement paradigms
  • Planning selective, cross-battery testing
  • Behaviors indicative of working memory problems
  • The use of cognitive and memory scales to assess working memory
  • A review of new scales specifically designed for working memory assessment

Cross-battery procedures for analyzing test scores gathered through selective testing will also be demonstrated.

Interventions: Evidence-based interventions for memory, including:

  • Mnemonic strategies
  • Metamemory development
  • Effective instructional methods to support working memory limitations for all learners.