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  • 11 - Assessing Children’s Working Memory

  • from Part II - Models and Measures
  • Edited by John W. Schwieter, Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language
    Published online:
    08 July 2022
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022, pp 219-246

  • Summary

    Working memory is a complex construct and neurological function that includes short-term auditory and visual-spatial storage, information processing, and executive awareness and regulation. An in-depth assessment of working memory should test these diverse components with contemporary standardized measures. Informal procedures, such as interviews and observations, should investigate related behaviors, such as the application of strategies. Multibattery assessment data should then be analyzed to determine individual strengths and weaknesses across working memory’s integrated components and to identify the relations weaknesses may have with other memory, cognitive, and executive abilities, as well as academic and daily living impairments. The results of such analyses can then be used to inform interventions and accommodations+L18