Recent Posts in the Summer Category

• How Weak Cognitive Skills Contribute to Learning Struggles

  May 12, 2021
  Q: What are cognitive skills? A: Cognitive skills are the foundational tools we use to think and learn. Q: What happens when one or more cognitive skills are weak? A: When one or more cognitive skills ...
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• Personal Brain Training—from your home!

  May 11, 2021
  During the pandemic, LearningRx had to adapt on the fly. We quickly launched live, 1-on-1 brain training for students who couldn't attend in-person training at our centers. Just like our in-person ...
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• 3 Truths About Learning Barriers

  May 7, 2021
  May 7 is National Barrier Awareness Day and LearningRx is sharing some of the myths about learning disabilities and how to overcome learning barriers. Myth #1: Smart kids can't have a learning ...
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• Personal Brain Training May Help Combat the Covid Slide

  Jun 29, 2020
  Did you know that experts are predicting that students will likely lose twice as much during the Summer Slide due to Covid-19 school closures? It's true. Normally, the Summer Slide--significant ...
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• Avoiding the Summer “Brain Drain”

  Jun 4, 2019
  The summer “Brain Drain,” also known as the “Summer Slide” is a phenomenon that teachers know all too well. Many students return to school in the fall having lost an average of 2.6 months of ...
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• 7 Tips to Avoid the Holiday Brain Drain

  Dec 10, 2018
  Keep Your Child's Brain Strong When School is Out of Session You may have heard about the "Summer Slide." It's how teachers refer to the significant decrease in material retention that requires them ...
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• Beat the heat!

  Jul 20, 2018
  Cheap Indoor Activities to Keep Their Brains (& Hands!) Occupied It's easy to keep kids busy in the summer when the sun is shining and a swimming pool (or beach) awaits. But the uber-hot days when the ...
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• Stopping the Summer Brain Drain

  Jun 10, 2018
  Did you know that the average student loses 2.6 months of grade-level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months? Or that teachers typically spend four weeks re-teaching or ...
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• The Season of Brain Drain

  Jun 1, 2017
  Don't push your kids down the Summer Slide The average student loses approximately 2.6 months of grade-level equivalency in math computation skills over the summer months, and teachers spend about ...
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• 7 Essential Paths to Brain Fitness During the Summer

  May 27, 2010
  Chances are, now that summer's here, you aren't thinking much about brain fitness (if you think about it at all). No, you're thinking about playing tag, eating watermelon, or lying on the beach in the ...
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