MEMORY AND…
✓ LOGICAL ABILITIES ✓ VISUOSPATIAL ABILITIES ✓ METAPHONOLOGY ✓ SENSE OF SELF AND THE OTHERS ✓ LEXICON ✓ LEARNING
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Through multiple gaming activities and thanks to its diversified contents, the series MEMOplay entertains and cognitively stimulates at each age and at different levels of competence. 4+
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The series MEMOplay: • lets you invest energy and effort in a pleasant and funny activity, • trains executive functions, that are important for the development of the basic and higher scholastic learning, thanks to the specific contents of each game, • activates strategic thinking and stimulates discussion on the offered contents between peers, • develops emotional, cognitive and behavioural autoregulation, because it requires connections with others and the sharing of simple rules.
A GAME FOR EACH AGE
YOUNGER CHILDREN can be introduced to the game with their cards showing and with a limited number of cards (20 cards): the number can gradually increase depending on the child’s feedback. Players compete to reduce the duration of the game, with positive results for their self-esteem. Moreover, describing and nominating what is depicted–together with the adult- stimulates verbal expression and will teach them to abstract the quality that characterizes the content of the illustrated card. Set out the cards in an ordered array of rows and columns in order to facilitate spatial memorization.
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The games of the series MEMOplay are a real “gym” for the mind. Players train memory and concentration by trying to remember the position of the matching couples. Moreover, the specific content of each game (contraries, symmetries, etc.) intensively stimulates memory of work, which is necessary to withhold information for the time that you need to elaborate them and to find the correct associations (what to match). Flexible, focused and sustained attention let you keep in mind various information at the same time; in addition, through this game, players learn different strategies that are applicable to other contexts, and they can train abilities linked to the specific offered contents.
WHY PLAYING
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A TRAINING FOR THE MIND
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OLDER CHILDREN, who want to relate with their peers, are easily led – by the particular associative request of this game – to discussions about the possible matches of the couples. This dynamics has important effects on the ability to express ideas and thoughts through verbal language. Thus, all the players comprehend the strategies that the components of the group declare. In addition, the artful and detailed illustrations permit a lexical enrichment. IN OLDER KIDS, the sake and pleasure of challenging adults, as well as their peers, increase motivation and produce a sense of self-efficacy that derives from controlling the accuracy of their own association autonomously, through the mechanism of auto-correction that is offered by the game.
VALENTINA DUTTO Speech therapist and teacher, she deals with valuation and rehabilitation treatment of children with developmental disorders of speech and learning disorders. She is author of many publications for Edizioni Erickson.
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HEAVY – LIGHT
ASLEEP – AWAKE
2 level
Couples are subdivided into two levels of increasing difficulty; the players begin with a limited quantity of couples to learn the game’s mechanism, and then they increase the number to make the challenge harder. Through the proposed game, organized on the base of quantity and quality of the images, the stimulus can be personalized depending on the players’ competence.
WHOLE – IN PIECES
SQUARED – ROUNDED
FIERCE – DOCILE
LIGHT – DARK
TALL – SHORT
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SMALL – BIG
HOT – COLD
FLOWERY – FLOWERLESS
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OPEN – CLOSE
DRY – WET
FAST – SLOW
CLEAN – DIRTY
FULL – EMPTY
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ON – UNDER
COLOURED – B&W
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The circle of opposites provides 50 cards of different difficulty that the players shuffle and place with the drawing down. Then, the players match the couples looking for the quality that is opposite to the one of the character drawn on the card (tiger, lion, trapeze artist, clown, giraffe, elephant, mouse). If there are any doubts about the match, just make the cards’ sides with the white symbol combine. If the symbol completes with the close-proximity of the two cards, the match is correct, and the game goes on for the player. The one who gets the highest number of couples wins.
1 level
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THE CIRCLE OF OPPOSITES
SANDRA BY ALES ATIONS ILLUSTR
HAIRY – WITHOUT HAIR
ON – OFF
SHORT – LONG
STRONG – WEAK
IN FRONT OF – BEHIND
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