My husband sent me a fabulous link today from Farnam Street. This website is going to be my new go-to for interesting articles about anything and everything. It’s not a speech path newsletter and not a word finding blog. As touted on the website, it’s “brain food.” Here’s the link: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ So what does this have to do with word finding?
Today’s article was entitled, “The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention.” It cited scientific evidence that we learn best when we utilize “the spacing effect.” In short, if we break information into smaller bits and review it in a scheduled manner we will be able to recall it better: AKA promote retrieval. As speech-language pathologists we see this daily in the kids we have in therapy. Teach a little, review, and return to the material later. Teach a little more, review with an increasingly greater interval, and return to the material again. It’s a great post. I encourage you to read the entire article. https://fs.blog/2018/12/spacing-effect/
Now if we could only convince our students to use this strategy in their studies! Consider subscribing to the blog – it’s truly worthwhile!