Improved Reading and Comprehension Skills Make For Strong, Confident Students Posted on March 21, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge LearningRx Atlanta-Buckhead’s owner and executive director, Susie McDaniel, has good reason to believe in the benefit of cognitive skills training. She’s had personal experience with it. When her two sons were young, Susie enrolled both of them in brain training with LearningRx. In addition to improving crucial core cognitive skills, Susie’s sons have benefitted from …
Get To Know the Cognitive Skills Your Brain Needs To Learn, Pay Attention, and Remember Posted on March 19, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge Cognitive skills are the brain’s essential tools for learning — the core skills it uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention. Working together, your cognitive skills take incoming information and move it into the bank of knowledge you use every day at school, at work, and in life. These core skills are …
Train Your Brain Today for a Better Tomorrow: How Brain Training With LearningRx Helps Adults Posted on March 19, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge You’re never too old to learn something new. Whether you’re 8 or 88, it’s not too late to improve your cognitive skills. As our bodies age, so do our brains, and we can begin to experience a decline in our cognitive skills. This can present as difficulty with long- or short-term memory, problem solving, decision …
How a Family found Freedom through LearningRx Personal Brain Training Posted on March 17, 2022April 27, 2022 by Leslie Poff Sometimes, families have such a good experience with LearningRx personal brain training that they enroll a sibling in the program. In the case of the Swansons in Minnesota, the results were so beneficial for the children that the mother, Deb, decided to go through training herself! Eventually, Deb, Nick, and Morgan found freedom through LearningRx personal …
You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks…or Can You? Boosting Cognitive Skills in Adults Posted on March 15, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge Boosting cognitive skills in adults can increase efficiency and productivity at work, improve memory, and aid in learning new things, among other benefits.
4 Truths about the Teen Brain Posted on March 15, 2022April 25, 2022 by Leslie Poff There’s a lot to understand about the teen brain, which has been shown to have some significant differences compared to the brains of children and adults. But for the sake of simplicity, let’s start with some simple truths that focus on learning struggles during this critical stage of development. Truth #1: Even smart teens can …
Getting to Root Cause of Attention Issues | Posted on March 14, 2022June 8, 2023 by Rich Frieder When students struggle with attention issues (or ADHD) it often undermines their abilities and mutes how intelligent they are. That’s because attention is the gateway to engaging key skills like logic and reasoning, which is a very strong skill for many students who struggle with attention and focus issues. So why do some students struggle with …
The Cognitive Skills Essential for Reading Comprehension Posted on March 14, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge Which Cognitive Skills Affect Reading Comprehension? Reading is made of two main skills – reading the individual words and understanding the message the words convey. Successful reading comprehension requires students to be able to complete both halves of the task, which takes multiple cognitive skills. To successfully read individual words, students need to have strong …
How Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) Impact the Brain Posted on March 8, 2022June 8, 2023 by Leslie Poff How a TBI impacts Cognitive Skills Our brain uses a set of core skills to think, learn, read, reason, remember, and pay attention. These cognitive skills include auditory and visual processing, memory, logic & reasoning, attention, and processing speed. When damaged neurons lose their ability to send information to one another because of a traumatic brain …
How Brain Training Helps Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury: Brain Injury Awareness Month Posted on March 3, 2022June 8, 2023 by Leslie Poff Although LearningRx doesn’t diagnose or treat traumatic brain injury, its programs are designed to aid the cognitive performance of each client. LearningRx has worked with children, teens, seniors, soldiers, and other adults who have experienced a range of brain injuries—from concussions to very traumatic brain injuries. Learn how brain training helps survivors of traumatic brain injury …