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For years, moms have been making their kids take summertime piano lessons. Not surprisingly, moms know best: it turns out those piano lessons may have helped you more than you realize. Over the summer, students typically lose over 22% of what they learned the previous year. They call it “summer slide” and Kim Bellini, director ...

Last time, we posted a few puzzles to test your logic and reasoning skills. In this post, you can find out how you did! Below are the answers to the three quiz questions, and an explanation of how each answer is achieved. Logic and Reasoning Skills: Quiz Answers The first answer is found by visualizing ...

Any logic and reasoning skill test is designed to see how well you handle and solve problems, using logic. Logic & Reasoning is one of the brain’s cognitive skills. When this skill is strong, logical thinking comes naturally, although logic, like math, still must be taught. A person with weak logic and reasoning skills will ...

Introducing a brand new LearningRx website… LearningRx.org! Parents with children who struggle to learn are careful to choose wisely which programs they invest in. They want a program that is created by and run by people who care for them and their children, from the heart. The purpose of LearningRx.org is to give parents the ...

June 15th is National Brain Training Day! On June 1st, LearningRx, thecountry’s leading personal brain training company declared June15th National Brain Training Day. The day was declared with two purposesin mind. First, to dispel myths around cognitive skills training. Secondly,to raise awareness of the phenomenal gains the right type of brain trainingcan bring. “LearningRx brain ...

How do we learn to read? It isn’t as simple as you might think. In a recent article, Sabra Gelfond, Speech-Language Pathologist and Executive Director ofthe National Speech / Language Therapy Center, compared the way we learnto read to the way a house is built. There are four major steps to both,she points out, and ...

Does your child need brain training or tutoring? What’s the difference? Do you know? Take this short quiz, and see if you can tell the difference. Get a piece of paper, read through the two scenarios in each question, and write down which story is like brain training and which story is like tutoring. Brain ...

Please stop talking. That’s what your child who is a kinesthetic learner is thinking – more often than you realize. Please just stop saying words, and let me do something. Let me please get up out of my chair. I’m going crazy here! Some teachers or parents may think a child is being stubborn, impatient, ...

Chances are, now that summer’s here, you aren’t thinking much aboutbrain fitness (if you think about it at all). No, you’re thinkingabout playing tag, eating watermelon, or lying on the beach in the sundoing absolutely nothing, and I don’t blame you. But activities thatboost physical and brain fitness during the summer can help you (and ...

My sixth grade teacher, Mr. Muir, was brilliant. He was kind, and funny, and encouraging, and he knew how to inspire eventhe most stubborn of his students (like me) to really care about learning.He had this thing in the classroom called the “what-is-it”of the week. It was a random weird item we’d never seen before.We’d ...