Brain Training Articles & News, Page 79

If you’ve spent money on brain games, brain training apps, or tutoring, you’re probably curious about how personal brain training is different.  Here are a few examples of how we know brain-boosting options work and why you should try brain training first. Brain Games and Brain Training Apps  While brain games and brain training apps are ...

As parents, we’d do anything for our children. Braces. Summer camps. Travel sports. Music lessons. These things fill our schedules, and some would even call them rites of passage. But when it comes to investing in your child, what if you could sign them up for a program that would make learning easier, reading more ...

If your child is working below grade level, there is a good chance they are feeling overly burdened and stressed by the pressure that is placed on them to “catch up.” For Jackson, a local student who has completed a training program at LearningRx, every school day was filled with stress and panic that got ...

Every summer, kids lose up to ⅓ of the knowledge they gained the previous school year. This “summer slide” sets kids up to feel behind before the school year even starts. The things you do over the summer can help make or break the way the school year starts. If you want your child to ...

If you’re a senior—or love someone who is—and have noticed changes to their memory, problem-solving, processing speed, focus, and confidence take note; LearningRx’s personal brain training has a track record of helping seniors improve these areas.  Curious to learn more about how personal brain training helps seniors? Our Results Report spells out our standard score ...

If your child spends hours the day before a test scrambling to pull together notes, only to walk away from study sessions feeling foggy, frustrated, and not at all confident, it may be time to introduce some new study skills. Studying is an art. If your child has the skills to study, they will feel ...

Summer break is full of relaxation and fun, but it can also be a time where your kids actually lose up to ⅓ of the knowledge they gained over the school year. That’s a HUGE number, so what can you do to keep learning moving through the summer? Summer learning strategies can help your child’s ...

May is National Mental Health Month. This month we want to point out the link between mental health and brain function.  Most of us have some inkling about how mental health affects the brain. You’ve probably seen it yourself when you feel stressed for a long period of time or noticed that a family member ...

The “summer slide” may sound like fun, but it’s definitely something you’ll want to keep your kids far away from this summer! During the summer, kids lose an average 2.6 months of grade-level equivalency in math computation skills and 25 percent of their reading skills. That explains why teachers usually spend four to six weeks ...

Summer break is right around the corner, and with it comes lots of fun, down time, and relaxation (or maybe your schedule is just getting busier with work, play dates, pool trips, and sports… we get that, too). Either way, it’s important to figure out how to keep the momentum from the school year going ...