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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 ...

Improve Logic and Reasoning Everybody knows somebody who always says “I’m a logical person” or “I think rationally.” And many times we assume that being a logical thinker is just a personality trait – but the truth is, logical thinking can be trained and improved. Years ago, logic was taught in elementary school classrooms – ...

Christmas Memory Game: Brain Booster! The holidays are full of stress, worry, and lots of sugar. All of thesecan affect your memory, at least temporarily. See if your mind is as sharpas one of Santa’s elves, even after you ate your 27th snowman cookie!Find reindeer, angels, presents, boots, skates, and other Christmas items.Start off easy ...

Welcome to our new LearningRx Brain Training Blog! Here you’ll find information about everything related to brain training: what it is, how it works, and how LearningRx helps propel struggling students to the top of the class. At LearningRx, we have a passion to help kids (and their families) get past painful and frustrating struggles ...

Learning Rx is the most effective solution to learning and reading problems caused by cognitive skill weaknesses. And since over 80% of learning problems are caused by cognitive skill weakness, we are confident that our brain training programs will help the majority of struggling students. LearningRx is much more than a tutoring program. We’ve helped ...