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Summer is here, and with it comes more free time for your kids. This is a great opportunity to use this time to strengthen brain skills and have some screen-free activities without it feeling like “school”!  Next time your child complains about being bored, check out these independent games and puzzles they can use to ...

Your brain is central to every part of your life, and keeping it balanced, happy, and healthy is critical to function at your best. But keeping your brain happy doesn’t just mean taking a spa day or “treating yourself.” Here are some practical, daily tips to boost your mental health so you can think more ...

Here’s one way to look at learning: At some point your parents shifted from solving your problems for you to teaching you how to solve them yourself. Maybe they taught you how to do your own laundry, fix your bike chain, make a snack, or budget your allowance. They shared their knowledge, but in order ...

You sit down with your child and teach reading, or they come home from school and you are excited to practice their newly-learned skill… and it’s crickets. There is no confidence, no fluency, and your child’s reading struggles frustrate them (and maybe you too, if we’re being honest).  Reading struggles are hard to navigate. After ...

Your kid walks into day 1 of school in the fall, the teacher throws a math problem up on the SmartBoard, and… crickets. “We didn’t learn that.” “I’ve never seen that before!” “How are we supposed to do this?” The summer slide is a very real phenomenon for kids every single year. Researchers estimate that ...

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 ...