The ability to apprehend and hold information in immediate awareness and then use it within a few seconds. The ability to encode, maintain, and manipulate information in one’s immediate awareness.
Recommendations for Accommodations - Keep oral directions short and simple.
- Have student paraphrase directions to ensure directions are understood.
- Provide compensatory aids: written directions (procedures and assignments), lecture notes or arrange for peer-shared
notes, built in pauses during direct instruction to complete study guides.
- Provide visual cues for the directions or steps to be followed.
- Teach memory strategies (e.g., chunking, verbal rehearsal, visual imagery).
- Provide time and coach the student in how to spend time studying and rehearsing information during instructional down time and at home.
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