LearningRx FAQS

Here are questions frequently asked by parents

Can you give me a reason to feel more confident about this upcoming school year?
Yes! If your child struggles with learning, reading, or attention difficulties, or just wants good grades and high achievement to come a bit easier, LearningRx can help. Brain science proves that differences in individual cognitive skills are often the reason that one student excels without much effort and another struggles. By strengthening individual, underlying mental skills in your student early this school year, we can give you lots of reasons to be more confident about your child’s success. Faster processing skills make schoolwork and homework easier and faster. Stronger auditory processing skills make reading easier and more fluent. Stronger memory skills enhance test-taking ability. Stronger attention skills can help reduce or even eliminate distractions that hinder performance.

It is only through professional testing and targeted skills training that you can identify and overcome the exact cause of a learning struggle or identify and enhance already strong skills. Stronger learning skills will give you and your child every reason to look forward to this school year with confidence.
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How are you different from tutoring?
Tutoring simply attempts to re-teach material that should already have been learned but was not. Before investing in tutoring you should ask, “Why didn’t he learn this the first time it was presented?” Unless the answer is obvious (such as missing school for an extended period of time), tutoring will likely be a frustrating and expensive choice. LearningRx is radically different. We seek solutions with a different question: “How strong is his or her ability to learn?” In fact, testing designed to measure individual mental skills reveals that the majority of learning or reading difficulties among U.S. students are due to identifiable (and trainable) cognitive skill weaknesses. Our testing and training strengthens these key underlying mental skills that are essential for easy, fast learning across all subjects. If skills weakness is a root cause of your child’s learning struggle, tutoring simply cannot correct it.
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What exactly is cognitive skills training?
LearningRx focuses exclusively on training underlying cognitive skills that impact the ease of learning. We provide non-academic training procedures that quickly strengthen the brain’s core mental abilities (i.e. processing speed, attention, memory, auditory and visual processing, and reasoning). These key skills are every student’s foundation for successful learning and, if overlooked, can create lifelong problems. Throughout training, students are paired with their own private training specialist. Through this one-on-one relationship, each session can be individualized and adjusted to your child’s needs and progress. LearningRx training is designed to produce big improvements quickly.
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Will this help my child?
If your child's struggles are caused by underlying cognitive weaknesses the answer is, “Yes.” (Testing can pinpoint the cause of your child’s particular struggles.) Today’s innovative LearningRx training system is the outgrowth of 30 years of research and clinical trials. During that time, thousands of students have recorded dramatic skill gains and improved performance in learning, reading, and math. Our latest nationwide results (Brain Training Research) set us apart.

By approaching learning problems through improving students' cognitive skills we average twice the results in less than half the time of tutoring or academic reading programs. We are literally #1 in results. Our intensive brain training increases mental abilities, improves academic achievement, and can even help remove barriers created by ADHD and dyslexia. Results are so consistent that we can actually guarantee gains!
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Whom can you help?
We can help anyone who wants to learn, read, and think faster and easier. Our training exercises the brain in the same way that a fitness coach works your muscles, and results are similar—more strength to accomplish the task. We love to help anyone looking for an edge: students facing new challenges in kindergarten through college, career professionals, or those simply wanting to keep or refresh their mental edge for a fun, productive life. The training is truly life-changing for students who struggle to learn, read, or pay attention. After training is complete, students regularly enjoy enhanced skills, improved grades, skyrocketing self-esteem, and increased confidence. This frequently leads to a restored love of learning.
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Can you help my child with ADD?
In many cases, “Yes!” At LearningRx, our cognitive training gets to the core symptoms to finally defeat those problems of ADD/ADHD.

Based on neuroscientific research, attention is a cognitive skill set that can be improved and developed. Why do schools treat ADD with accommodations like removing distractions, reducing workload, or isolating students into quiet areas? This may allow better performance temporarily but does nothing to develop the cognitive skill of attention long-term. That would be like treating poor vision by having someone read to you instead of getting glasses. Your future would be ill-served. How do you develop attention?

Neuroscience shows that by targeting and stimulating the underactive region of the brain responsible for the characteristics of inattention, attention can be strengthened. Therefore, the correct approach is the opposite of the usual accommodations. Attention develops when a person performs a task requiring attention while exposed to structured, distracting stimuli. Designed intensity and distraction is at the core of LearningRx’s cognitive skills training aimed at improving attention. Our training alters brain structure to strengthen cognitive function. It is active, just like diet and exercise improve health and conditioning. Those with ADD deserve the opportunity to overcome the distractions and limitations this disorder presents, without medication. Appropriate training, not accommodation, presents that opportunity.
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Are learning struggles a phase my child will outgrow?
The answer is no, not in most cases. Learning, reading, or attention difficulties rarely go away with time. If you sense that your child is struggling, you must take action. People who struggle to learn or read do so for a reason, and new brain science shows individual cognitive skill weaknesses are the most likely reason. Yes, you could accommodate his or her problem by changing the environment, creating lower expectations, or focusing only on strengths; however, these choices limit your child’s future potential. Only through professional testing and training can you identify and overcome the exact cause of a learning struggle and create a strategy that will produce both immediate and lifelong change.
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How do you help a poor reader?
Many students do not bring sufficient cognitive skills to the task of learning to read quickly and efficiently. Even if the reading code (letter sounds and combinations) is taught completely and sequentially, a student with a severe auditory processing deficiency who cannot concentrate adequately, works too slowly, has poor memory skills, or cannot create good mental images, will complete lessons very slowly or exhibit poor retention. When stronger cognitive skills are in place, however, students learn rapidly, read faster, and retain more as they read.

ReadRx training (a revolutionary 'sound-to-code' accelerated reading program offered exclusively through LearningRx Brain Training Centers) is integrated with, and provided in conjunction with, ThinkRx cognitive enhancement training. Students immediately strengthen auditory processing skills, the most critical skills required to read effectively. Building a strong cognitive skill foundation ensures that students will have the tools required to efficiently learn and use the reading and spelling code in ReadRx.

The training is delivered through one-on-one training with a Certified LearningRx Trainer over approximately 24 weeks. Beginning readers quickly establish good fundamental auditory and reading skills. Struggling students, upon beginning the program, see significant improvements quickly. Past frustrations and failures are naturally overcome. For these students, ReadRx training truly offers a second chance at fun, efficient reading.

Thanks for taking the time to consider LearningRx. If you have any other questions or are ready to speak to a learning professional, contact your local LearningRx center today.