Brain Training Experts help by providing smart ways to spend the summer

The lazy days of summer have a hidden danger lurking.  It’s a phenomenon so well-known to educators, they call it the “summer slide.”  It’s the loss of knowledge and ability that typically occurs when formal education stops during the summer months.

• The U.S. Department of Education reports that, on average, children are set back by 25% in reading skills each summer.

• The average student loses approximately 2.6 months of grade-level equivalency in math computation skills over the summer months.

• Research shows ALL young people experience learning losses when they don’t engage in educational activities during the summer. 

• Teachers typically spend 4 to 6 weeks re-teaching or reviewing material that students have forgotten over summer break.

“It doesn’t have to be that way,” says Krystal Arrowsmith of the LearningRx brain training center.  “Just as physical training improves the body, mental training improves the brain.  The right activities over summer break can easily exercise the brain so the summer slide can be avoided.”

According to Learning Rx the seven major learning skills parents should focus on with their kids are: attention, working memory, processing speed, long-term memory, logic and reasoning, auditory processing, and visual processing.

Here are just a few of the free and fun brain-training games Learning Rx recommends:

• Mental Tic Tac Toe: Similar to traditional Tic Tac Toe, this game uses a ‘mental’ grid numbered 1 to 9. Players remember where their opponent has already been and call out an unoccupied space. The player who calls an occupied space loses.

What it helps: Attention, logic and reasoning, and working memory.

·                                 Needle in a Haystack: Take a page from a newspaper and time your child as she circles

all occurrences of a specific letter. Focus on increasing both accuracy and speed.

What it helps: Visual processing speed

• 20 Questions: Think of a person or object and give your child 20 chances to narrow down what you’re thinking of by asking yes or no questions. To help them improve their logic and reasoning, teach them to strategize by using questions that will significantly narrow down the categories, such as “Are they alive?” or “Is it bigger than you?”

What it helps: Logic, reasoning, memory

• Poetry: Have your child choose four words that rhyme and then ask them to use those words to create a poem or a rhyming song.

What it helps: Auditory analysis, verbal rhythm, memory

For a free 4-page list of more games, or more information on fun ways to build cognitive skills and prevent the summer slide, please call:  Learning Rx Lake Mary 407-322-3144 

About LearningRx

LearningRx specializes in identifying and correcting the underlying cognitive skill deficiencies that keep people from achieving their full potential in school, business or life.  Personal brain trainers use intensive one-on-one game-like exercises to quickly enhance weak cognitive skills such as attention, memory, processing speed, and problem solving.  More than 15-thousand students have gone through the training and graduates now see average gains of 4.12 years across nine essential cognitive learning areas.  To learn more, visit www.learningrx.com/lake-mary. 

What is ADD/ADHD?  It depends on whom you ask. The medical industry says it is a physiological condition that responds well to drugs. The physiological community says it is a behavioral disorder that responds well to a combination of medication, counseling, or coaching. The educational system sees it as a disruption in "normal" classrooms and is best "treated" by behavioral engineering, classroom management, or referred to treatment through a medical doctor or psychologist.

We know that in some cases each of these perspectives hold some merit and their solutions may have some benefits. However, attention is a function of cognitive skills. As a result, like other cognitive skills, it is trainable. These skills are more than behavioral traits. They are actual mental abilities. Students can actually become better "attenders" through intense, specific drills that are designed to challenge their attention weakness. By training the brain to push through the symptoms of ADD/ADHD this condition can be reversed with great success.

We have a lot of more information regarding the differing theories behind ADD/ADHD and the physiological and behavioral aspects of this weakness in learning. Our programs are able to improve and even correct these symptoms all together. If you want to learn more call our center today or keep reading our posts to find out more!

Layla Scheiber

Director of Trainers

407-321-3144

LearningRx learning centers provide cognitive skills training that empowers anyone of any age to learn faster and easier. Tutoring and other programs reinforce WHAT students must learn (information). LearningRx learning centers identify and strengthen the skills behind HOW students learn. We provide testing and life-changing training for students of all ages who desire to learn and read better for life.

Go beyond Tutoring and get the root cause of your student's learning difficulties.

  Over 80% of learning problems are due to cognitive skill weakness. If someone has weak cognitive skills no amount of tutoring, medication or trying harder will achieve the results that "brain training "can provide. Unlike school, our program starts with a Cognitive Skills assessment that can pinpoint deficient learning skills. Then we customize a 12– 24 week brain training program to strengthen your deficient skills. Our students average up to a four year improvement. We’ve helped thousands of people of all ages and learning difficulties to achieve their goals.

What are Cognitive Skills?

View your brain as a muscle. Muscles have different fibers and components that make up the strength and elasticity of that muscle. If you work out your muscles regularly at the gym for instance, your muscles will be stronger, faster, and will help you achieve the goals you are trying to reach.  The cognitive skills in your brain are those very fibers that determine whether or not your brain power is at it's full potential to obtain and utilize the information coming in.

There are 7 key cognitive skills that build up your brain's ability to learn. They are: Attention, Memory, Logic & Reasoning, Visual Processing, Word Attack, Processing Speed, Auditory Processing.

If any one of these "fibers" are weak or damaged your muscle can not preform successfully. You need to then work out that muscle daily to strengthen it to it's full potential.

We use brain games, and intensive learning activities to work the brain in ways it has never worked before. We train it to correct those weak areas and fix them for good. Brain Training is a "new wave" form of thinking and learning and it works wonders.

Check us out and call our center today to get your brain assessed!

407-322-3144

Layla Scheiber

Director of Trainers

Learning Rx  Lake Mary

www.learningrx.com/lake-mary

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