Do you have children who can't remember information or instructions? Who can't learn for tests and examinations?

Memory Booster will help them to aquire effective learning strategies and give them practivce that will develop their verbal and visual memory skills.

Memory Booster teaches flexible memory strategies and takes the child through enjoyable exercises that develop and extend learning skills.

What is Memory Booster?

Do you have children who can't remember information or instructions?
Who can't learn for tests and exams?

Memory Booster is a NEW approach to helping children improve their memory skills. Memory Booster is a computer program that is effective even without parental or teacher supervision. Memory Booster teaches flexible memory strategies and takes the child through enjoyable exercises that develop and extend learning skills. Memory Booster is adaptive, so the activities are automatically adjusted to the abilities of each individual child. Learning progresses at the pace that is best suited to their needs. However, parents or teachers can configure the program to make it easier or harder if this should be necessary.

Memory Booster contains attractive and colourful graphics that appeal to children and also has high-quality digitized speech. The program features voice of the international TV and film actor Brian Blessed as Pooter the Master Computer.

Memory Booster has been widely trialled in schools and homes, with very successful results. Children enthusiastically enjoyed using the program, and made measurable improvements in their memory and learning capacity. The vast majority of children also preferred Memory Booster to conventional memory training activities.

Why children need Memory Booster

In today’s increasingly complex world there are so many situations and occasions when children need to remember things – information, instructions, learning things for tests and exams, lists of things to do during the day. Many children find this task overwhelming and frequently forget things, to the annoyance of their parents and teachers. Some children – especially those with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties – have exceptionally poor memory skills, and these can result in them underperforming in school. Parents and teachers of these children often report that although they understand the work nevertheless they do badly in tests and examinations because they forget the material.

Memory Booster is a NEW and exciting approach to helping children improve their memory skills, requiring very little teacher or parental guidance.

The strategies that Memory Booster teaches (in order) are:

Rehearsal – simple repetition of verbal information.

Visual imagery – creating pictures in the mind to represent the information has to be remembered.

Creating stories – generating a narrative that links together the information the form of a story; if the story is amusing then it is more likely to be remembered.

Grouping – using higher-order conceptual categories (e.g. ‘living things’, things we use in the home’) to group items together.

How does Memory Booster work?

Memory Booster has been designed to improve children’s memory by teaching tried-and-tested memory strategies and by giving enjoyable practice so that these strategies are assimilated and can be applied in everyday learning activities. Memory Booster has six levels of increasing complexity, and incorporates many features that help to motivate children and ensure that they get the most from the activities. The program automatically adjusts the difficulty according to the progress of the child, which helps to maintain just the right degree of challenge and maximises learning. The items in the program vary each time it is used, so children can play the adventure many times and not become bored. The program remembers where each child has reached in the game and next time they enter the program it automatically carries on from where they left off.

Memory Booster is presented in the form of an adventure game set in the castle of Pooter the Master Computer, who has lost his memory and needs help the child to recover it. Built-in cartoon rewards and encouragements that use attractive and humorous graphics to help to keep children highly motivated and to stay on-task at all times.

The child helps Pooter by playing memory games for which they get points. Another character called Fiona helps the child in these memory tasks by suggesting a variety of memory techniques or strategies. Fiona makes her suggestions at various points in the game depending on how well the child is progressing. When the child has got sufficient memory tasks correct to move to the next level, they can help Pooter get some extra memory, better graphics and, finally, cure him of a virus attack! Whenever the child feels like a break from the program they can leave and return on another occasion at the same point where they left off. The child (or teachers and parents) can see how well they have done by viewing the reports graph, which shows the number of points that have been accumulated and what memory level has been achieved. A personalised certificate of achievement can then be printed out.