skippy Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Please could you tell me if there is a condition where children find it hard to remember information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondie Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 is there anything else you can tell us - what sort of information ,space of time, age of child etc., x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 Sorry yes that would help. A 4 yr old, has difficulty with prepositions, colours, shapes, names, through play based; open situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green hippo Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Do you know of his history at home? Is he likely to have been spoken to and allowed to explore things from an early age. If he has missed out on these early language experiences he may be lacking the first piece of the jigsaw in which to build his understanding of different concepts? Green Hippo x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melba Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 We have one like this. No matter what we try she cannot recognise a single number. Mum says no problem and no need to do anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) Was birth normal?? Sometimes when starved of oxygen at birth children can have memory issues. Edited June 19, 2013 by Chellandrews 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondie Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 i have a child at my setting - she doesnt know colours, shapes etc - no matter how much i try through play etc - she is going to school but her problem is home life - no input there so we are starting from the beginning - mum not worried either/ all i can do is repeat these through play and hopefully she will start getting these concepts. she is however very confident and chatty so a great attribute which will serve her well as she moves onto school and means she isnt afraid to ask 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 forms of dyslexia would fit into this ...any history in the family? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 i have a child at my setting - she doesnt know colours, shapes etc - no matter how much i try through play etc - she is going to school but her problem is home life - no input there so we are starting from the beginning - mum not worried either/ all i can do is repeat these through play and hopefully she will start getting these concepts. she is however very confident and chatty so a great attribute which will serve her well as she moves onto school and means she isnt afraid to ask We have exactly the same. You think she's 'got' something and ask a few minutes later and it's gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted June 20, 2013 Author Share Posted June 20, 2013 Interesting to know some of you have experienced the same. Is it a mechanical processing problem in the brain? Not being able to hold the information for a long time as the connections are not being formed? Interesting one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catma Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 There's a lot of information on this sort of issue in the Physical development side of brain development - where children don't inhibit neo-natal reflexes. Sally Goddard Blythe writes a lot about it. It impacts on so much of their later development. I can't remember which one she talked about but there were later issues with memory. The emphasis on tummy time was interesting as it inhibits many of the reflexes especially the palmar grip. (This is from my memory from a talk in October so is suitably vague I feel!) Aha - quick web search (it's by someone else but hey ho) http://suehyland.co.uk/ond/primitive-reflexes/#grasping cx 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melba Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Catma, that link is really interesting. REALLY complicated but I am sure lots of our children (and some adults including myself!) are in there somewhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 ensure you are teaching using all the senses ...try this and then see if she can remember more of what you have taught! It's taken my daughter years to learn her times tables and how to tell the time on a analogue clock . At pre-school age she would learn the tunes for songs really quickly but however many times she sang them she was unable to remember the sequence of words...frustrating for you...but just put yourself in their position! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueJ Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) We have a significant number of children with speech and language difficulties and developmental delay and have been signposted to encouraging children's "working / functional memory" capacity. The link below takes you to a document that provides a good explanation of what working memory is and how it impacts young children's "abilities" http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WM-classroom-guide.pdf We do lots of different activities including using "memory boxes". The boxes contain several everyday items (e.g., spoon, egg, feather etc.) and each box has different items. Over a period of two weeks a child is encouraged to name the items in say Box 1 to help them retain the labels (names) for the items. After two weeks they are then encouraged to name the items in say Box 2. After two weeks of Box 2 they are then back to Box 1 to see how many name labels they have retained in their "working memory". It may be that the children being described have underdeveloped "working memory" Edited June 20, 2013 by SueJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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