Brain Training Articles & News, Page 72

At LearningRx, we specialize in targeting and training clients’ brain skills to make learning faster and easier in ANY subject. But we also offer specific programs to build fundamental reading and math skills.

Lots of kids struggle with reading, yet many parents still feel isolated and alone. Your child may be performing below standards in school, struggling with homework, or even feeling embarrassed by their own inability to read fluently.  For some kids, reading is just hard. It doesn’t “click.” It doesn’t “make sense.” And for many parents, ...

Does your child dread reading? Do they complain about it, saying that it’s “boring”? For many kids who struggle to stay motivated with reading, it’s because their reading comprehension skills are not as strong as they could be. After all, if you sat down and did the work to sound out and decipher a whole ...

The phenomenon known as the “summer slide” is lurking. The term describes the learning loss that occurs when the kids are out of school for the year.

Six months ago Cruz Kirwan was like a lot of high school seniors. He played football and basketball, had a solid social circle, and performed above average in school. Today, he’s about to head off to college a genius. Literally. The 18-year-old scored a 133 on the IQ portion of a nationally recognized cognitive test ...

You start your school year with an exciting new homeschool curriculum, but it just doesn’t click. What are you going to do? Keep trying? Push through? Try something new? The curriculum carousel is an exhausting ritual in many homeschool families. They try something and it doesn’t work, or it doesn’t work as well for one ...

Clients approach us at LearningRx for help in a variety of situations. Maybe it’s reading or math struggles, maybe it’s a new learning disability diagnosis and they just need some guidance, or maybe it’s trouble with attention and focus that is holding their child back. Whatever brings people into the doors, one of the most ...

If you have a child on summer break, you are likely trying to figure out that balance between rest over the summer and keeping them ready for the next school year. Your choices this summer can make the school year easier and more successful from day 1 for your child!  Check out these offers that ...

Over the years, we’ve learned that the learning struggles most students experience in school have nothing to do with intelligence, laziness, poor teaching, or genetics. They come from cognitive skills that simply need a boost to help the student excel.

It happens every year… a child participates in sports whether through school or independently and suffers an injury that sets them behind in school. Whether it’s a broken arm or a concussion, these injuries set the child back and can cause already-existing learning challenges to grow exponentially. We just want to acknowledge the fact that ...