Brain Training Articles & News, Page 86

Max is 6 years old and came to LearningRx because he could not read. He was struggling with letter and word recognition, and this was also showing up as difficulty with numbers. Max had an initial assessment which uncovered that the root cause of his reading difficulties was lower memory skills, auditory processing and processing ...

Lone Star News picked up this piece about the 2021 Smart Family’s Toy Box for its December 15, 2021 issue. Read the full article HERE.

Digital Journal picked up this piece about the 2021 Smart Family’s Toy Box from San Antonio Northwest. Read the full article HERE.

Donesa Walker, owner of LearningRx Shreveport wrote this piece about enhancing memory through relationship for SB Magazine. Read the full article HERE.

The traditional path for most parents and teachers who want to help a struggling student is to try school interventions and tutoring. While this may help students get a second shot at learning a subject, it oftentimes is just re-teaching the material instead of working on the underlying cause. This was the situation for Callie ...

As we reach the end of 2021, we’d like to take a moment to appreciate all that has happened here at LearningRx throughout the year. Our clients accomplish astounding things each year, and every one of them is worth celebrating. The following are just a few examples of the effect that LearningRx’s programs can have ...

Are you a crossword fan, or are you new to the game? Either way, crossword puzzles have been around for over 100 years and continue to ‘puzzle’ people to this day. The thinking nature of crossword puzzles has made it a shared activity people choose when they want to take on a mental challenge. The ...

Research has connected certain cognitive skills to early reading skills. Working memory (WM) has a vital role to play in the academic performance of children, due to multiple academic tasks involving multiple sequences of tasks that should be remembered in a short period of time (Bergman Nutley & Söderqvist, 2017).For example, a deficit in working ...

We all want our kids to “succeed” in school. We want them to learn the material, apply it to their lives, and become well-rounded, educated individuals who can advocate for themselves and others and make a difference in the world. (Or some days we’d just settle for a C on that social studies test.) Often ...

Although 80% of LearningRx clients are under the age of 18-years-old, there are adults that have benefited from working on their cognitive skills through brain training, and Mary from Fort Collins, Colorado is one of them. Mary is a hard-working mom and friend who has owned and operated an insurance agency with her son for over ...