Brain Training Articles & News, Page 6

There’s a reason that autism is described as being a spectrum. There are so many varied skills, needs, and experiences within this diagnosis. While it has its challenges, individuals with autism are set up to experience the world in a unique way—and supporting brain skills with brain training has helped many individuals with autism excel ...

Learning can be difficult for kids at any age but between more rigorous academics, hormonal changes and challenging social dynamics, middle school can be particularly rough. If you want to set your child up for academic success during the early teen years, they need to be good managers of their time. But good time management ...

Processing speed is a critical cognitive skill that determines how quickly and efficiently your brain is able to take in and manipulate information. Slow processing speed has a direct impact on every single other tool your brain uses to think, learn, and remember. Other skills like attention, logic & reasoning, memory, auditory processing, and visual ...

As you get older, it’s common to explain away a fading memory as a “normal part of life.” Names, dates, where you put your keys, how to get to your cousin’s house, what that book you just read was about—a variety of miniscule or important details begin to get harder and harder to hold onto. ...

The Cleveland Clinic put out a great challenge to focus on just 6 key areas that can make a huge difference in the way your brain works. These 6 pillars are not anything new for many of us, but now is a great time to really dial in and give your brain the support it ...

Getting your child ready for kindergarten is a big deal. Your baby is about to start a 12+ year adventure into formal schooling, and there’s no way to know what’s going to go well and what is going to be a struggle. From all the social and emotional changes this transition requires to the academic ...

As we get into the second half of the school year, maybe you’re trying to think through everything you can do to make it easier than the first half. We get that school stress, homework power struggles, and a lack of organization wear down every member of the family. And we also know that helping ...

We all want our kids to “succeed” in school. We want them to learn the material, apply it to their lives, and become well-rounded, educated individuals who can advocate for themselves and others and make a difference in the world. (Or some days we’d just settle for a C on that social studies test.) Often ...

There are few things more challenging as a parent than dealing with sleep-deprived kids. They can be crabby, belligerent or burst into tears without warning. But these emotional displays are just the tip of the iceberg. When your child doesn’t consistently get a good night’s sleep, they suffer in several ways. Conversely, when your child ...

Cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason and pay attention. Working together, they take incoming information and move it into the bank of knowledge you use every day at school, at work and in life. Cognitive skills include attention, short-term and long-term memory, logic and reasoning, auditory ...