Maximizing Learning Potential to Help Your Student Excel Here’s one way to look at learning: At some point your parents shifted from solving your problems for you to teaching you how to solve them yourself. Maybe they taught you how to do your own laundry, fix your bike chain, make a snack, or budget your allowance. They shared their knowledge, but in order to learn those tasks, you had to pay attention, process what they were explaining, follow directions, and remember what they said. You were able to learn and memorize the information they taught you because your cognitive skills—the core skills we use to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention—were strong. If even one of those brain skills had been weak, you wouldn’t have been able to grasp, retain or use that information to complete the task on your own later. That’s because there are two parts to smart: knowledge and IQ. While knowledge is the information you’ve gained from learning (e.g., WWII facts, grammar, how much detergent to add to the washing machine), IQ is a measurement of cognitive skill strength. Cognitive skills include processing speed, logic & reasoning, attention, visual and auditory processing, and memory. At LearningRx, our personal brain training programs are designed to strengthen any cognitive skills that need it in order to maximize learning potential. We’ve spent 35 years researching, developing, and testing our cognitive training programs to address the root cause of learning difficulties or simply make strong brain skills even stronger. The LearningRx Experience When you contact your local LearningRx center, we’ll start with a discussion about any difficulties your student is experiencing and possible training goals. We’ll demonstrate how our programs work, answer any questions you have about personal brain training, and schedule a Brain Skills Assessment. Our affordable Brain Skills Assessment measures overall cognitive performance, as well as individual skills, to identify which brain skills are already strong and which can benefit from brain training. The test only takes about an hour and we use the results to build a custom learning plan for your student, which will target the cognitive skills with the most room for growth. Many parents report that the assessment results provide an “Aha!” moment, giving you and your student answers as to why they thrive in some areas but struggle in others. We’ll discuss the learning plan and make modifications together to create a roadmap to stronger learning and thinking skills. Using the final plan, your student will work with their own personal brain trainer throughout the duration of their program. The brain trainer will use game-like mental exercises that are fun but challenging to target cognitive skills that need a boost. Our decades of research have led us to discover six key ingredients to effective brain training, which include: 1. Must be practiced regularly 2. Needs to be focused and targeted 3. Requires immediate and accurate feedback 4. Should be done in a one-on-one setting 5. Needs to be done in a particular sequence 6. Needs to be intense Our Results There are two comments we hear frequently from parents whose students have gone through LearningRx personal brain training. The first is, “My son/daughter is SO much more confident now!” The second is, “This program was life-changing.” We can’t promise that your student will experience the same results, but we think our brain training results speak for themselves! Download a free copy of our Results Report after reviewing these highlights: In the time between 2010 and 2018, we analyzed the results of more than 19,500 LearningRx graduates between the ages of 4 and 17. Our results showed that: kids and teens had improved their learning and thinking skills by +3.7 years on average; children’s cognitive skills started in the 43rd percentile and improved to the 63rd percentile after brain training, on average. The largest improvements for children included long-term memory, auditory processing, and visual processing Between 2010 and 2019, of the LearningRx graduates who reported learning differences before brain training, we found the following. Clients with ADHD, dyslexia, speech delays, autism, learning disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries saw across-the-board improvements in cognitive skills. Both kids and adults saw significant improvements in their cognitive skills on average, as well as significant average improvements in overall cognitive performance; the largest improvements in cognitive skills changed, depending on the diagnosis. Clients with dyslexia, for example, saw the largest improvements in auditory processing (the skill most closely tied to reading skills). Likewise, clients with TBIs saw the biggest gains in long-term memory. Reach out to your local LearningRx center to schedule an initial consultation.