Northern Light Technologies
8971 Henri-Bourassa West
Montreal, Quebec H4S 1P7, Canada
(800) 263-0066
www.northernlighttechnologies.com
Outside In, Ltd.
3 The Links, Trafalgar Way
Bar Hill
Cambridge CB3 8UD
England
+44 (0) 1954 780500
The SunBox Company
19217 Orbit Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4149
(800) 548-3968
At this free game Web site, you’ll find a great game to test memory and reaction time. Tetris, a computer puzzle game that has been around for several decades, asks players to move four-block shapes that are falling into a well into a horizontal row of blocks without any gaps. Players must rotate the shapes and complete as many horizontal lines as possible before they reach the roof. You can change the speed at which the shapes fall and use different strategies for getting the shapes in line as quickly as possible.
The same site also offers a game called Anagrammatics. In this game you click on letters to form words at least four letters long. The
idea is to find the longest possible words within the specified time limit. The site also offers the popular logic game called Sudoku. In this game you try to fill a puzzle grid so that every row, column, and 3 × 3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9.
This site provides two memory tests (click on Memory Games), one for verbal memory and one for visual memory. The verbal quiz, which takes between 10 and 15 minutes, tests word memory, and the visual quiz, which takes about the same amount of time, tests picture memory. Each test has three parts, and at the end you’re told what your score means and how you compare to other people who have taken the test.
Playing the age-old game Concentration is another terrific way to test memory and performance. This Web site provides a 24-picture Concentration grid and times your play to see how quickly you can come up with the 12 matches.
www.jebikes.com/java/WhackAMole
This online version of the arcade game Whack-a-Mole, in which moles poke their heads up quickly and you have to whack them before they duck back underground, requires continuous attention and speedy visual reaction time. It’s a way for your teen to assess sleepiness and possible microsleeps—and have fun at the same time.
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Boulevard
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098
(847) 434-4000
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
One Westbrook Corporate Center, Suite 920
Westchester, IL 60154
(708) 492-0930
Better Sleep Council
501 Wythe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-1917
National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
One Rockledge Center, Suite 6022
6705 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-7993
(301) 435-0199
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
National Parent Teacher Association
541 N. Fairbanks Court, Suite 1300
Chicago, IL 60611-3493
National School Boards Foundation
1680 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(312) 670-6782
National Sleep Foundation
1522 K Street N.W., Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-3471
S.L.E.E.P. (Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal)
Society for Adolescent Medicine
1916 N.W. Copper Oaks Circle
Blue Springs, MO 64015
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