When: Online access to complete at your own pace, within 90 days of sign up.

Description: Long term memory stores our past experiences and information we gather over the years in our learning and studies. Short term memory recall enables us to remember where we just put something down or recall what we just had for lunch. What is working memory? In this recorded workshop we will explore the intricacies and the details of a definition of this important skill in our brain. We will explore the overlap of working memory in attention, in holding and executing sequences, planful behavior as well as support inhibition of our impulses. Educators rely on students showing working memory capacity and an effective student relies on this capacity to plan timelines, hand in assignments on time etc... The ReadLS program builds on this capacity from a central nervous system perspective (bottom up), as will also be demonstrated by snippets of this program during the presentation. Join us for a short while to learn more about working memory and the ReadLS program.

Outline / Agenda: 90 minutes

• Exploring the concept of Working Memory
• Show video of the ReadLS program to demonstrate working memory
• The ReadLS program

Learning Objectives:

The recorded workshop participant will:

• List 7 different working memory components of the ReadLS program
• Consider the working memory impact of the ReadLS program
• View 3 game plays of the ReadLS program

Assessment: Completion of Feedback Form

Provider Name: The Maude Le Roux Academy

Presenter: Maude Le Roux is well-known speaker and mentor for therapists globally and has accumulated a wide array of knowledge across different aspects of child development, including reading and writing. She emphasizes the developmental brain and its readiness to learn from our environment and how therapists could impact on their functional occupations. Maude has been involved in reading programs since 2008 as reading is an acquired skill in the brain and as such requires development in order to mature. She has developed her own assessment and intervention protocol for reading proficiency, which she trains globally from her own online platform, Maude Le Roux Academy. Maude partners with LSWorks in Canada to bring ReadLS to South Africa and beyond and as such obtains a stipend for her work in promoting ReadLS only in South Africa.

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Educators, Parents 

Educational Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Pre-Requisites: None

 Instructional Methods: PowerPoint, Group Discussion, Video

Contact Hours: 90 minutes

Fee: No Charge