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SUMMARY:Memory and Education
DESCRIPTION:This one-day seminar is open to everyone. It will help participants to understand the role played by memory in different areas of educational attainment. The speakers will consider the implications of memory weaknesses for populations with literacy and learning difficulties, and the types of classroom support and training that might help these children.\n\nThe seminar has been designed with the purpose of CPD in mind for professionals working in the field and is open to anyone with an interest in education and learning from childhood to adolescence. The seminar is accredited for CPD by the British Psychological Society.\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n9.30 - 10.00\nRegistration and Coffee\n\n10.00 - 10.15\nDrs John Towse and Kate Cain, Lancaster University: Welcome. Opening comments\n\n10.15 - 11.00\nDr Kate Cain, Lancaster University: Why good working memory helps children to be successful reading comprehenders\n\n11.00 - 11.45\nProfessor Paola Palladino, University of Pavia: The memory profiles of children with learning difficulties: where they are poor and where they are not\n\n11.45 - 1.00\nPoster session, followed by lunch\n\n1.00 - 1.45\nProfessor Sue Gathercole,MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge: Working memory, learning and classroom behaviour\n\n1.45 - 2:30\nDr Helen St. Clair-Thompson, University of Hull: Working memory and attainment in primary school, secondary school, and higher education\n\n2.30 - 3.15\nRefreshment break and break out groups for themed discussion\n\n3.15 - 4.00\nPlenary session\n\n
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LOCATION:Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster
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