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Tutoring Programs – Fill the Temporary Gaps
Tutoring programs provide students with extra help in academic subject areas. Tutoring is the approach many teachers and parents take when they see a child struggling with reading, mathematics, or other specific subjects.

Sometimes tutoring programs produce great results. If an academic gap develops for some reason, tutoring can offer the extra assistance needed to get a student back on track. For instance, a tutoring program might be the answer for a child who falls behind after changing schools or after recovering from an extended illness.

Tutoring Programs – Build the Cognitive Foundation
Although tutoring programs can help students “catch-up” under certain circumstances, some children never really catch-up and seem to need tutoring year after year. These students often end up wearing the “tutoring needed” label throughout their school careers. As a parent, if you see that your child is not doing better in the subjects being tutored or that tutoring is needed more often than occasional “gap-filling,” in over 80% of these cases underlying learning skills (cognitive abilities) need strengthening.

An assessment of basic cognitive skills is the first step in obtaining a long-term solution for your student’s struggles. These are the foundational tools a child uses to learn. Cognitive skills are not the same as the academic subjects taught in school; rather, cognitive skills are the mental tools needed to process and learn what is taught in an academic environment. These foundational abilities are also called mental skills, intelligence, learning skills, learning tools, and processing skills. These terms all refer to the same cognitive abilities that are needed for consistent success in school, the workplace, and all areas of life.

The clinical research is clear -- If a weak cognitive foundation is the reason a student falls behind in academic subject areas, most tutoring programs will merely mask the real problem. Strengthening a child’s weak cognitive skills is the only way to achieve practical and lasting learning improvement.

Tutoring Programs – When You’re Ready to Break the Tutoring Cycle
For those students who seem to jump from one tutoring program to another, yet continue to struggle with learning, there is hope. Cognitive skills can be identified, targeted, and improved. Mental skills can be enhanced. Abundant evidence from “brain research” shows that the mind can continue to grow, not just in young children, but well into an individual’s later years. At LearningRx, we’ve spent nearly two decades conducting the studies and running the cognitive training programs that produce positive and lasting results.

When you’re ready for something different than endless tutoring programs, give your local LearningRx Center a call. We can schedule a cognitive skills assessment right away.