Brain Training Articles & News, Page 117

April is National Autism Awareness Month On the Spectrum? Find out how we’ve helped kids, teens and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. At LearningRx, we don’t diagnose autism. But plenty of students who have come to LearningRx had a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when they started a personal brain training program with us. ...

April 30-May 6 is Screen-Free Week and the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood has "7 Parent-Tested Tips to Unplug and Play" that are sure to inspire you! Here’s one: turn your living room into a place for family interaction and play by arranging the furniture so the TV is not the focus of the room. Cool, ...

Here’s a piece about LearningRx Tysons’ job shadow programthat was picked up by InsideNova.com: https://www.insidenova.com/news/business/tysons-chamber-hosts-students-in-annual-job-shadowing-program/article_a0cb992a-081f-11e8-bae4-8b62615d7698.html

Here’s a piece about LearningRx Chattanooga that ran on Nooga.com: Brain training program restores local student’s academic confidence

Here’s LearningRx’s own Robin Gibson appearing on “TheTopic”:

LearningRx, the world’s largest personal brain training company, is celebrating the incredible success of Elle, a student who enrolled in a one-on-one brain training at LearningRx Twin Cities in Minnesota when she was in third grade. Now a senior in high school, Elle is headed off to college with the strong cognitive skills she’s retained ...

Here’s a piece that MPR ran about LearningRx’s work with formerNFL tight end Ben Utecht: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/02/02/concussion-roundtable

1. MYTH: You’re either left-brained or right-brained. This long-standing myth has been debunked. There is no evidence that people preferentially use one side of their brain more. 2. MYTH: Cognitive decline is not impacted by choices or circumstances. We now understand that there are lots of things you can do that appear to fight cognitive ...

Report cards. Seldom have two words caused such anxiety for both students and parents. For some, poor grades can reflect feelings of inadequacy (as a student or a parent), worries about being held back a grade, or fears of not getting into a good college. Who’s to blame for learning struggles? For parents, these feelings ...

Here’s LearningRx’s own Robin Gibson appearing on “The Topic”: