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What Are Cognitive Skills: Info for Parents in Brain Training Programs Enhance Your Life Cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention. Working together, they take incoming information and move it into the bank of knowledge you use every day at school, at work, and …

Middle School Tutoring in Middle school tutoring and brain training are both great ways to help your child with classwork and homework. At LearningRx, we recommend middle school tutoring for students who need to spend more time with class material. When students need to build stronger learning and thinking skills, we recommend brain training. Our …

: Research History LearningRx wasn’t born overnight. In fact, our programs were developed through a process of trial and error dating back to 1968. As you’ll read on the timeline below, even significant successes weren’t enough for LearningRx founder Dr. Ken Gibson. His  formula for developing the best cognitive skills training program was always the …

Right Brain Exercises from The brain is physically divided into two hemispheres, and while both hemispheres work together to perform cognitive tasks, it is generally thought that the left part of the brain processes information in more of a verbal, analytical manner, while the right part of the brain is more visual and intuitive. There …

Training the Brain with Training the brain is no simple task. But with the right approach, anyone can improve the skills they need to become a stronger learner and thinker. At LearningRx, we have spent more than 35 years researching, developing, and testing our cognitive training programs. Our unique approach can help anyone train the …

Train Your Brain in Many people still believe that basic learning and thinking skills are with you for life. Yet according to decades of scientific research, these skills can change over time. In fact, you can strengthen these skills at any age! ThinkRx® offers a way to train your brain, strengthen core thinking and learning …

Cognitive Testing in At LearningRx, our brain training plans start with cognitive testing. Before you or your child get started with brain training, we’ll conduct a Brain Skills Assessment. This way, we can identify which cognitive skills are already strong, and which skills can benefit from training. We can then develop an individualized learning plan …

The Difference Between ADD & ADHD: Info for Parents in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the official name of a neurological condition, symptoms of which include various combinations of poor attention, poor impulse control, and hyperactivity. There are three types of ADHD: Inattentive ADHD (also referred to as ADD): Inattentive only Hyperactive-Impulsive ADHD: Hyperactive/impulsive only …

: Free Brain Quiz Want to learn how your brain skills are performing compared to those of your peers? Want to find out why your child is having trouble with reading, math, studying, or homework? You can find answers in about three minutes with our free online brain quiz!  Our brain quiz will give you …

Gifted Programs in Every student deserves the chance to reach their full potential. For that to happen, students need a challenge. At LearningRx, we know that many gifted and talented students don’t get the challenge they need while in class. To help, we build personalized, one-on-one gifted programs for these students. With LearningRx, your child …