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they access, in order to complete many daily activities, such as reading audio-books and maps.
Our research team is currently working on a randomized controlled trial experiment to further
examine the effectiveness of auditory working memory training. In this experiment, we will be
teaching individuals with VI to "transfer" the improved auditory working memory skills to
solve academic and real life problems.
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