How a Family found Freedom through LearningRx Personal Brain Training  

Sometimes, families have such a good experience with LearningRx personal brain training that they enroll a sibling in the program. In the case of the Swansons in Minnesota, the results were so beneficial for the children that the mother, Deb, decided to go through training herself! Eventually, Deb, Nick, and Morgan found freedom through LearningRx personal brain training. 

It all started when Deb noticed that her 8th-grader, Morgan, had to work very hard to keep up with her classmates. “Morgan wasn’t failing,” explains Deb. “She was getting along ok, but it seemed she had to work so hard [to keep up with her peers].”   

In addition, Morgan’s younger brother, Nick, had been struggling in school for years. “I had taken him to tutoring programs and bought lots of home programs and worked with him. They had helped a little bit, but it just seemed like it wasn’t connecting for him.”  

The two started the program at the LearningRx Savage center, and immediately, Morgan was pleasantly surprised.   

“I thought it was going to be like school,” says Morgan, “but when I got here, I was like, oh, this is actually kind of fun!”  

Morgan knew she had a memory issue—writing essays after reading a book and remembering math formulas wasn’t easy. “I could not remember anything that teachers would say,” she says. But after a few months of brain training, everything changed.   

“I used to be so nervous to go to high school. I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going to fail. I’m going to have to go into separate classes from everybody else.’ Turned out, I’m like ‘I can do this!’ Sure, I’m still a little bit nervous, but I know I can do it.”  

Deb says that confidence was a big issue for Morgan before completing LearningRx personal brain training. “But she knows now that she is smart and she can do these things.”  

Nick, Morgan’s brother, had a similar experience with brain training.   

“Now I’m starting to read bigger books—chapter books. And I’m starting to get into the 100s, and I’m starting to love reading. It’s just getting really fun for me!” He says his favorite book is Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”  

As Rich Frieder, executive director of LearningRx Savage, explains, “Our brain has incredible plasticity. At any age, our underlying skills can improve.”  

The adage, “Use it or lose it,” holds when it comes to our brains. When Deb saw how LearningRx personal brain training had helped her kids, she decided to enroll herself to help with her memory issues.  

“I would do some of the program at the center and some online at home,” she explains, “which was a really nice balance for me.”  

Deb says she no longer feels like her mind is slipping, and the fog has lifted.   

“We went through one of the programs where I would read 15 words in a short amount of time, and I was able to just remember them,” she says. “That’s a skill I learned to use when I’m going to the grocery store.”  

Deb says she feels like she has her memory back and “the fog has lifted.”   

Rich points out that although these skills help academics, they’re also the skills that make up our IQ. As he explains, “they’re actually skills that we use in our careers to hit deadlines, remembering things and just process.”   

How LearningRx personal brain training works 

 Although LearningRx does integrate some tutoring elements into our programs, it’s essential to understand how tutoring and brain training differ. Tutoring helps deliver information—such as math formulas or critical historical facts. However, personal brain training addresses the root cause of learning struggles by targeting and training weak cognitive skills. These are the foundational tools we need to read, think, remember, pay attention, and more.   

Studies show that cognitive skills cause most learning struggles. These include auditory and visual processing, memory, processing speed, attention, and logic & reasoning. If even one skill lacks, it can affect the other skills and cause a learning struggle.   

At LearningRx, every initial meeting starts with a Brain Skills Assessment to find the root cause of the learning, reading, or memory struggle. The test takes about an hour, and the results provide information about which cognitive skills are strong and which could use a boost.  

Using the results of the Brain Skills Assessment, LearningRx creates a personal brain training program that targets and trains cognitive skills. The client then works one-on-one with their brain trainer, who uses fun but intense mental exercises to strengthen the brain skills that they need most. When cognitive skills are strong, learning and reading are faster and easier—in any subject.  

LearningRx’s programs have helped more than 100,000 children, teens, and adults see life-changing gains.   

Still not convinced? Start with a one-hour Brain Skills Assessment to find out which cognitive skills are holding you or someone you love back from reaching their full potential in school, at work, or in life in general.   

There’s no obligation to enroll in LearningRx personal brain training, but the results of your Brain Skills Assessment can be illuminating. At the very least, you’ll have the information you need to determine the next steps in unlocking your brain’s potential.