Re: Memory loss - Aspergers

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Dear Joy,

Have you had his heavy metals tested? My daughter had a phenomenal memory, long and short, until exposure to an insecticide (full of heavy metals they are). Also exacerbated by being forced to have measles shots (as an adult)

Francine

In a message dated 9/19/2006 11:11:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, joycrosby@... writes:

my son has a terrible short term memory problem and he has always had it. can anyone relate and recommend anything for me? i could deal with it easier in elementary school lbut with middle school 7th grade now, its almost impossible to know what to ask him to get the assignments.....

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Hi Joy,

I can relate! Our nine-year-old can be told something (like brush your teeth when you're done with that), and then he gets really upset that he forgot less than five minutes later. I've made up signs with drawings reminding him to brush his teeth every morning and every night, take a shower every day, and I even drew up a diagram of the front and back of a body to remind him all of the body parts he needs to dry- and none of it works! My first instinct was that he just didn't *want* to do those things, but he gets really upset with himself when he realizes he forgot all about it.

I have no idea what to do about it, other then to be on him at all times and try to be two steps ahead of what he's doing. If you find something that helps, please do let me know!!

On 9/19/06, joy <joycrosby@...> wrote:

my son has a terrible short term memory problem and he has always had it. can anyone relate and recommend anything for me? i could deal with it easier in elementary school lbut with middle school 7th grade

now, its almost impossible to know what to ask him to get the assignments..... -- Margison

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Joy ,My 6 on 10/3 has trouble with short term memory .His ST began

using a program with him 3 times a week called Brain Builder ,Its

proven to improve memory and processing skills .At her recommend we

have begun using it daily before school (just 10 minutes each

morning .)

Here is a web site with program details ;http://brainbuilder.com/

I do the program daily as well

it might be worth trying for your son,

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I can relate as I am sure most of us can. My daughter is almost 14 and verbal instructions of more than 1 step are not retained, she cannot take phone messages because I get "some lady called", she cannot even remember things like starting a cake baking by herself. (til it burns of course!) I was very upset about this until I realized that it is part of how an AS persons brain works that they cannot, not will not, but cannot retain multiple steps verbal instructions. Then I started writing things down for her for example, her chores or things she needs to do to get ready to go somewhere etc and it got alot better. Now mind you, I still have to remind her to READ the steps/instructions but it helps us both alot. I cannot find the specfic website I read about this on but I am fairly sure it was mentioned with "executive brain function" and I do have a print out. Unfortunately, does not show the site and my scanner is broken!! But I did find another suggestions on Tom

Coulters site re memory and how to handle it. (I love his site, info is so down to earth, easy to understand and clear!) anyway, here is the link to that article. Good luck. It is frustating but just remember, he is not doing it on purpose, it is the way his brain works, (or doesn't in this case! lol) http://home.att.net/~coultervideo/cklistessay.htm Good luck and God bless! DeeDeejoy <joycrosby@...> wrote: my son has a terrible short term memory problem and he has always had it. can anyone relate and recommend anything for me? i could deal with it easier in elementary school lbut with middle school 7th grade now, its almost impossible to know what to ask him to get the assignments.....

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