When I first started working as SENCO at Liphook Infant and Junior schools, we found that many children who were struggling in class would not score significantly low in the usual assessments relating to language, reading, spelling and/or maths. Therefore, these tests did not effectively assist us in identifying these children’s difficulties.
We made the decision to purchase the Lucid Recall, a working memory assessment tool, as many teachers were saying that these children were not effectively retaining and/or retrieving information learnt.
This computerised, standardised assessment focuses on three different elements of working memory: auditory, visual, and central executive function (which includes elements such as directing attention, maintaining task goals, decision-making, memory retrieval). In addition to these three elements, it also measures the speed and efficiency of working memory (processing speed). This assessment has an age range of seven to 16 so we began using it at the junior school first.
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