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A study at Yale University School of Public Health found that Americanadults 50 and over increased their survival by up to 23% just by reading books! The researchers analyzed data from 3,635 men and woman over 50 initiallyand then 12 years later. They found that adults who read books for upto 3.5 hours each week ...

This piece about former NFL player Ben Utecht ran in the Caledonia Argus: Refusing to lose the memories

Here’s a list from Nashville Parent showing the ‘best of” in the area: 2016 Best of Parenting Winners – Nashville

Here’s a segment featuring LearningRx’s VP of Research & Development, Tanya Mitchell, on Dubai Eye radio: https://omny.fm/shows/drive-live/the-power-of-the-brain-31-10-2016

Here’s a piece on LearningRx’s personal brain training improvingstate reading achievement tests: https://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/10/28/334969/Study-Shows-Personal-Brain-Training.aspx

Here’s a piece that ran on Nooga.com about how LearningRx’sbrain training programs support professional development: https://noogatoday.6amcity.com/brain-training-program-supports-professional-development/

We like to acknowledge the hard work of current and past students of all ages by doing video “shout outs” that highlight their successes. Each month we choose one winner from all the video submissions. This month’s winner is Wayne Kolstad, who became a proficient reader at age 72! A traumatic brain injury in his ...

What it is: Twist it, Bop it, and Pull it in the sequence the game tells you to! Bop it has many different versions, but all of them challenge your child to focus and make quick decisions. Bop It! could be a LearningRx brain training procedure all by itself! I have purchased several Bop It!s ...

There are a lot of myths surrounding dyslexia. Perhaps one of the mostcommon misconceptions is that dyslexia is about reversing letters. Inreality, dyslexia is about weak phonemic awareness skills. Phonemic awarenessand auditory processing skills are the underlying cognitive abilitiesto hear and remember the smallest individual units of sound in a word.The word dyslexia actually means,”poor ...

Here’s a piece that ran in the Star Tribune about former NFL player Ben Utecht working to maintain and strengthen his memory with LearningRx brain training: https://www.startribune.com/after-concussions-minnesota-football-star-ben-utecht-fights-not-to-forget/397018481/