In the 1980s, Baddeley and Hitch, two well known British researchers coined the term "working memory" which refers to one’s ability to hold several facts or thoughts in memory temporarily while solving a problem or performing a task. In other words, Working Memory is a place where one maneuvers auditory and visual information in order to evaluate the relevance of all the pertinent details in order to synthesize information. It is a complex set of cognitive abilities that has tremendous bearing on attention and speed of processing. It is clearly useful if the student is trying to understand directions, verbal narrative, follow a map, figure out a plan and/or is trying to do word math.

This program is aimed at working on ISOLATING working memory as a skill building process and will help students develop strategic maneuvers to hold on to visual as well as verbal information while applying processing rules. It will provide guided practice to work with information with increasing complexity. It is proven that with repeated and extensive practice at processing information tasks eventually require less effort and they become more automatic.