Any age → Returning to routine
Choose a course designed around topics commonly taught at an approximate age or learning level. This is not school placement or equivalency; start where you feel comfortable and choose another course at any time.
Each level builds on the one before. Start wherever feels comfortable.
Any age · All ages · about 4 hours
Getting material out of memory before looking again: free and delayed trials, reading a forgetting curve, using and making cues, what a miss is for, rebuilding an order, and a ladder of growing gaps. Practice, never a measure of anybody's memory.
Working memory · All ages · about 3 hours
What holding something in mind is and where it runs out, and how to change a task so less has to be held: chunks, working lines, markers before interruptions, one next step, and instructions one line at a time.
Retrieval practice and spacing as a schedule you can keep, interleaving, elaboration and self-explanation, worked examples with problems, diagrams paired with words, judging what you actually know, better versions of common habits, and a review plan for a whole course.
Take first: Recall practice
Everyday memory · All ages · about 3.5 hours
Plain strategies for ordinary days: capture jobs at once, give things a home, learn with cues and spaced returns, keep a notebook, say back what you hear and link new names to pictures. Optional practice alongside your own care, not treatment.
Attention and fatigue · All ages · about 3.5 hours
Optional home practice, not treatment or a test: clear what competes for attention, do one task at a time, search and check in a fixed order, get back after a lapse, and plan breaks before fatigue rather than after it.
External aids · All ages · about 3 hours
Optional home practice alongside care, not treatment or a test: match an aid to a task, write complete calendar entries and checklists, set reminders that work, give things a home, review your aids weekly, and recover when one misses. No particular app or device is needed.
Prospective memory · All ages · about 3 hours
Tie future intentions to cues, turn times into events, write if-then plans, keep an intention alive across a delay, and check that the action is done.
Returning to routine · All ages · about 4 hours
Rebuilding an ordinary week: routines on a card, notes and words that still work later, a paced week, checklists for bigger jobs, and a way back when a day breaks. Optional practice alongside your own care, not treatment.