National Brain Training Day
LearningRx declares June 15th National Brain Training Day!
National Brain Training Day is designed to dispel myths around cognitive skills training and to raise awareness of the phenomenal gains the right type of brain training can bring.
National Brain Training Day - The Question
What exactly is brain training?
Brain training is a program or system that exercises mental muscles to make thinking faster, easier and more efficient. The exercises used by brain training programs strengthen weak cognitive skills such as memory, attention, and auditory processing. When a student’s cognitive skills are improved, their ability to think, reason, and process information also improves.
Brain training is a lot like physical fitness training. Think of it as an intense mental workout program for the brain, complete with a personal trainer. The training combines many different intense, focused, demanding mental exercises that continue to push the brain to do more challenging activities, in shorter times, with more distractions and additional tasks.
Just as with physical training, intensity is key with brain training. With physical training, a ten-minute stroll three times a week isn’t going to result in measurable improvement in physical fitness. But a focused, increasingly tough, one-hour workout six times a week with a personal trainer will quickly result in vast improvement. The same holds true for brain training, which is why intense one-on-one personal brain training programs at LearningRx bring significant results.
National Brain Training Day - What it looks like
What does brain training look like?
During a one-on-one brain training session, personal brain trainers focus on strengthening weak cognitive skills. They quickly push their student on to faster, harder, more intense exercises, with lots of quick corrections, immediate feedback, and extensive distractions. For the students, it’s a heavy mental workout, but since they’re not learning academic material, it’s more invigorating than a homework load or tutoring session.
National Brain Training Day - The Myths
What are the “myths” surrounding brain training?
The biggest myth is that all mental training activity is the same. Doing a crossword puzzle at a leisurely Sunday morning pace, or messing with a Sudoku puzzle on the computer for five minutes, is simply not the same as the intense, one-on-one brain training programs that produce true results. Games and crosswords simply do not have the intensity and focus to bring about the phenomenal changes that come from the tested and proven LearningRx brain training methodology.
Another myth is that IQ is stagnant – that the brain cannot change. However, modern brain science proves the brain’s plasticity — its ability to build new pathways, grow and change. This plasticity means the brain can be strengthened, IQ can be increased and, quite often, learning disabilities can be eliminated.
National Brain Training Day - Does it Really Work?
How do we know brain training actually works?
At LearningRx, we test the cognitive abilities of every student before training, and again after training, using the gold standard of testing, the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities. Test results prove, time after time, that the training did work – that those mental skills did improve.
Our graduates now see average gains of between 20 to 49 percentile points across nine essential cognitive learning areas. To put that in perspective: If a student is functioning 25th from the bottom in a class of 100 students, and averages a 40 percentile gain, that means he would pass 40 other students and be functioning 35th from the top after just a few months of brain training.
National Brain Training Day - On the Computer?
Can you get these same results from a computer program?
One-on-one personalized brain training has huge advantages over computer-based programs in several key ways. One of the reasons LearningRx training works so well is that every student gets a highly individualized training program based on their own unique needs and goals. That training is then carried out with a personal brain trainer who is able to give immediate corrections and praise in a one-on-one setting. This helps keep the workout focused, intense, fun, and ultimately, much more productive.
About National Brain Training Day
The first annual LearningRx National Brain Training Day is Tuesday, June 15, 2010. More than 65 LearningRx brain training centers across the country will invite people in to watch or take part in a brain training session.
LearningRx is also raising awareness of the value of brain training by offering a free copy of Unlock the Einstein Inside: Applying New Brain Science to Wake Up the Smart in your Child. The book can be downloaded for free by visiting www.learningrx.com/ebook.
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. Certified trainers use intensive one-on-one training to quickly enhance weak cognitive skills such as attention, memory, processing speed, and problem solving. Dr. Ken Gibson developed the program based on 30 years of research and clinical trials. More than 25,000 students have gone through the training. Students completing the program usually see three to four years of improvement in as little as 12 to 24 weeks.
If you would like to speak to a learning professional, please contact your local LearningRx center.
