Cogmed Working Memory Training | School User Stories - Part 1

Cogmed Working Memory Training | School User Stories - Part 1

School User Stories

Cogmed delivers exciting results in schools

Below, you’ll find a select set of user stories which detail some of Cogmed’s experience in working with schools. Our first two stories below highlight the experiences of educators who have implemented the Cogmed program in their school. The remaining stories that we have posted are of children who went through the Cogmed program and detail the influence that Cogmed Working Memory Training has had on their performance in school

Cogmed is implemented by healthcare professionals and educators all over the world, to see the full list of the user stories we have collected from all settings where Cogmed is being used, click here.

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High School Students Improve Concentration, Quality of Time-on-Task With Cogmed Working Memory Training

Torsvik School Sweden At Torsvik School in Sweden, it isn’t unusual to walk past a classroom with the door closed and a sign that says “Do Not Disturb! Brain Training in Progress.” When teachers and students see this, they know that special-education teacher and Cogmed Working Memory Training coach Eva Ullberg’s students are using the [...]

Swedish School Children Improve Memory and Build Confidence for Learning With Cogmed Working Memory Training

Mölstad School Three teachers at the Mölstad School in Mönsterås, Sweden – Mats Grönqvist, Anette Sjökvist and Eva Nilsson – were looking for a way to help students who were having difficulty listening, understanding instructions and concentrating on their work. They turned to Cogmed Working Memory Training, an evidence-based, computerized program designed by leading neuroscientists [...]

Entire Seventh-Grade Class Realizes Changes in Reading Comprehension, Class Behavior After Completing Cogmed Working Memory Training

Furulid School Aneby, Sweden At the Furulid School in Aneby, Sweden, math and science teacher Kristina Björklund undertook an initiative to train the school’s entire seventh-grade class with Cogmed Working Memory Training, an evidence-based, computerized program designed by leading neuroscientists to improve attention by effectively increasing working-memory capacity over a five-week training period. By training [...]

Florida Elementary Students With Attention Deficits Find Focus, Accelerate Academic Achievement With Pearson’s Cogmed

St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School Jacksonville, Fla. Educators at St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School, a private elementary school located in Jacksonville, Fla., were seeking an innovative way to help students with attention deficits and working-memory issues. “Medication works well, but we wanted something to add to it or other options for our families,” explained Sheryl [...]

Struggling Texas Students Realize Academic Gains After Improving Working Memory With Pearson’s Cogmed

Natalia ISD – Natalia, Texas While conducting a literature review for her doctoral research, Rhonda Cunningham, specialist in school psychology for Natalia Independent School District (ISD), discovered compelling research about Cogmed Working Memory Training from Pearson. Excited about its potential, she persuaded her administration to see how the Cogmed program could help struggling students in [...]

Cogmed in schools user story: Academy In Manayunk

Grace Ashton, Ph.D. is the Director of Psychological Services at the Academy In Manayunk – a school for children with learning disabilities in Philadelphia, PA. As is stated on their website, Academy in Manayunk “incorporates visual and performing arts with rigorous academics to meet the individual learning styles of its students. Academy students ‘live it [...]

Cogmed in schools user story: Rob Budwig

Rob Budwig is the Special Education Supervisor for Southern Trinity Unified School District in Dinsmore, CA. He has been successfully implementing Cogmed in his school district since the fall of 2009. Please click through the chapters to read his experience providing Cogmed to the students in his district, and the results that he has [...]

Boy improves reading fluency over 2 grade levels in one semester

Age: 8 Gender: Male Location: Northern California Background: This young boy from Northern California had great difficulty remembering what he heard and could only follow one step instructions. As his principal said – “He consistently forgot to take his homework home and if he remembered to take his homework home, he would forget to bring [...]

4th grader in danger of having to switch schools sees “dramatic turnaround” in academics after Cogmed

Age: 10 Gender: Male Location: Boca Raton, Florida Background: This ten year old boy from Florida had ADHD symptoms and was doing very poorly in school. The boy was unorganized and unfocused in class causing his teachers to have to work extra hard to get him to pay attention. He was often forgetful and had [...]

Girl improves grades and gains more self-control after Cogmed training

Age: 8 Gender: Female Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Background: This eight year-old girl was having difficulty focusing in class and during homework. She often rushed through her work and made careless mistakes as a result. She would forget instructions from her parents and teachers, and had a lot of trouble staying on task to complete her [...]