Cogmed Working Memory Training | Boy studies for hours at night and remembers little the next day

Boy studies for hours at night and remembers little the next day

Age: 12
Gender: Male
Location: Long Beach, California

Background: For this young boy, homework was a daily struggle that sometimes left the whole family in tears. Diagnosed with a mild case of ADHD, he struggled to retain information from one day to the next. “We’d study with him for hours for a simple vocabulary quiz the night before and he’d know them cold,” said the boy’s mom. “But then he’d take the quiz and get only a handful right. It was very tough to stay positive.”

Key challenges:

Struggled to remember the teachers instructions after he got home
Had trouble focusing on his homework
Could not remember what he had studied, even after hours of memorization
Caused stress for the entire family

Training outcomes:

Remembered homework assignments and completed them without prompting
Retained the information he studied
Was able to recall instructions from the teacher
Remembered what the teacher said in class and understood it after he got home
Began to ace tests at school

*Photos above are not of the actual users whose experience we describe – we understand that poor working memory
is often a hidden weakness that impacts people in a very personal way.
Out of respect for their privacy, we have kept the identities of these people anonymous.

Boy studies for hours at night and remembers little the next day

*Photos above are not of the actual users whose experience we describe – we understand that poor working memory is often a hidden weakness that impacts people in a very personal way. Out of respect for their privacy, we have kept the identities of these people anonymous.

*Photos above are not of the actual users whose experience we describe – we understand that poor working memory
is often a hidden weakness that impacts people in a very personal way.
Out of respect for their privacy, we have kept the identities of these people anonymous.