Brain Training Articles & News, Page 95

Congratulations to our Eagan Director of Training, Julie Bertelsen, who has been with us at the Eagan location for the past 10 years! Julie is a former educator who has a passion to help struggling students excel! Julie’s first experience with LearningRx was through her son. She enrolled her son when he was 16 and ...

Third-grader Lily is a twin who was born10 weeks premature. Doctors told her parents there might be learning complications as she got older, and there were. By first grade, Kily was falling behind her peers. In second grade, Lily had homework struggles and hated reading, so her mom enrolled her in a summer program at ...

October 22 is National Nut Day and it’s the perfect time to share the brain-boosting nutrition of different types of nuts. Although nuts contain a lot of minerals (including copper, zinc, selenium, potassium, and phosphorous), it’s their unsaturated fatty acids that truly steal the show! These fatty acides aren’t just essential for our brains, but ...

Sometimes students need a little inspiration! We’ve gathered some of our favorite motivational (and comforting!) quotes to share with children, teens, and adults who might be struggling this year. Feel free to print out your favorites to hang on the fridge or above your student’s desk, or just to rewrite them on a notebook cover ...

Each year Franchise Dictionary includes its readers in nominating women franchisors for the Women of Wonder issue. Franchise Dictionary experienced more nominations than ever before, and LearningRx’s Kim Hanson made it in the top 50 female franchisors. Kim Hanson leads an executive team of more than 80% women and purposefully networks and partners with other ...

October 20 is National Youth Confidence Day and LearningRx, the largest personal brain training company in the world, has some tips to help you boost your child or teen’s confidence if they’re struggling in school. 1. Focus on effort and other types of success. Not every success looks like an A on a test or ...

Reading comprehension skills help us make sense of what we read. After all, what’s the purpose of reading if it’s nothing more than words on a page? Yet many children struggle in this area.If you hear your child frequently complain about reading and express that it’s boring, they may be struggling to comprehend what they’re reading. ...

Students with a learning struggle are often given labels that affect their confidence and can leave parents feeling guilty or ashamed that they haven’t done enough to address the problem. Words and phrases like “dyslexic” and “ADHD” can pigeonhole kids and teens (and adults!) into categories that make them feel broken or less than. But ...

In the late 1980s, Dr. Neil Fleming identified the VARK model of learning styles. Although other educators and research have identified as many as 70 learning styles, the four that VARK focused on were as follows: Visual: You learn well when aided by images, pictures, and spatial organization of elements Auditory: You learn well when aided by ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurological condition that results in a variety of symptoms involving attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity. The group of symptoms and behaviors caused by ADHD have been recognized as far back as 1902, though the name for the disorder has changed over time. In their most recent national survey ...