Auditory Memory Club for Android

11 things about Auditory Memory Club

1. Auditory Memory Club tackles the task of improving auditory memory via four activities: “I Say You Do”, “What Was That”, “Remember for Amber”, and “Let’s Put it in Order”.

2. The third activity, called “Remember for Amber”, includes an animated girl called Amber requesting the child to remember a series of words for her to be recalled later in the activity.

3. Auditory Memory Club is an iPad application designed to serve as a tool for improving auditory memory skills in children.

4. The second activity, “What was that?”, is designed to have the child listen to an environmental noise such as rain, horse, or a duck and then identify the sound they heard after a period of delay.

5. The first activity, “I Say You Do”, was designed to be used by a child under the supervision and guidance of an adult who will assess and score the child’s performance.

6. Difficulties with auditory memory can impact a child’s educational performance as well as activities of simple activities of daily living.

7. The student is not required to select the items in order, the child is only required just to remember all the words spoken by Amber.

8. listening skills, processing auditory information and remembering what has been said, are all central to learning in a classroom environment (Mense, Debney and Druce, 2006).

9. Each of these activities includes a variety of settings that can be adjusted in order to provide flexibility to meet each child’s individual listening level.

10. The child is presented with a task such as “clap your hands”, “raise your arms”, “pretend you are eating a hamburger”, and the student has to complete each task and follow directions.

11. Assessment and management of central auditory processing disorders in the educational setting: From science to practice (2nd ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Learning.