How to Make Good New Year’s Resolutions with Your Kids Posted on December 27, 2022June 8, 2023 by Maureen Loftus With the New Year come new goals, both for you personally and your family. Whether you embrace this turning of the calendar or you balk at the idea of setting New Year’s resolutions, learning how to set goals with our kids is important. When they see how we think about what we want (and how …
LearningRx Success Stories: A Look Back at 2022 Posted on December 13, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge As the year comes to a close, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate all that has happened here at LearningRx in 2022. Our clients accomplish amazing things each year, and they are all worth celebrating! Here are just a few LearningRx success stories from this year. Read on to learn about the impact …
LearningRx Student of the Year Runner-Up LaRon Furdge: A 2022 Success Story Posted on December 13, 2022June 8, 2023 by Amy Judge As 2022 comes to a close, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate all that has happened here at LearningRx throughout the year. Our clients accomplish amazing things each year, and every one of them is worth celebrating. LearningRx Raleigh student LaRon Furdge was a runner-up for LearningRx Student of the Year this year. …
What Are Cognitive Skills 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 …
Right Brain Activities 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 …
Homework Help in Franklin Homework Help in Homework is meant to be a little bit challenging. Otherwise, it wouldn’t help students learn! While homework should be challenging, it shouldn’t be frustrating or discouraging . At LearningRx, our homework help programs are designed to build strong homework skills. We help students take control of homework assignments! Our programs work by …
Wish You Could Get More Done in a Day? 5 Tips to Be More Productive Posted on November 25, 2022June 8, 2023 by Dargan Coggeshall Do you ever have those days where you feel like you accomplished nothing? You wrap up your work day and your list is just as long (if not longer) than it was when you started. Getting yourself organized and motivated is often the biggest barrier to productivity, but there are some daily habits you can …
3 Ways Long COVID is Changing the Brain Posted on November 2, 2022June 8, 2023 by Maureen Loftus If anything has changed since early 2020 in our culture, it is that we have grown to expect the unexpected. COVID has thrown a wrench in all our lives, and even as the pandemic eases, many individuals are still feeling its effects. Long COVID continues to impact thousands of individuals. In particular, more research is …
An Unconventional Approach to Reading Posted on September 15, 2022September 19, 2022 by Leslie Poff When you approach teaching a new learner how to read, where do you usually start? Do you begin by reading simple books and working through each word? Or do you introduce each letter in the alphabet and the sound it makes? Both of these approaches seem sound, right? While approaches like the ones listed …
How Structured Literacy Helps Kids Learn to Read Posted on September 14, 2022June 8, 2023 by Sandra Zamalis The way kids learn to read—and the best ways for teachers and reading interventions to meet these needs—has been studied and researched for decades. The clear winner continues to be structured literacy. This approach is not a specific program or curriculum. Instead, structured literacy addresses HOW reading instruction should be delivered and WHAT the priorities …