Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them

Well, it is almost back-to-school for our children.  Some schools will be opening doors in August across our country.  Others will start after Labor Day.  The one thing they all have in common is homework.  For those students who do get homework, this can be the most stressful time of the day.  For families dealing [...]

What To Do If Your Child’s Teacher Suggests ADHD

Colleen Bain, M.A. Awarded Industry Expert for 2010 by Who’s Who of Cambridge

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Stop Committing Children to Virtual Wheelchairs – by Roger Stark

For the first time since 2003, 4th graders failed to make any progress in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).  Why improvement before and none since?  The push with NCLB (No Child Left Behind) raised the concept of accountability, measuring and providing consequences for not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress.  What this suggests [...]

Activities – Paperless Tic Tac Toe – Strengthen Cognitive Skills

  Paperless Tic-Tac-Toe:Take the classic game of tick-tac-toe and assign each box a number. Have your child visualize this grid in her mind and call off the box number in which she wants to place her mark. Also, try playing tic-tac-toe by drawing the grid in the air and pointing to the box you want [...]

Transforming your Child through a System Part 2

In part one of this series we talked about how you shouldn’t focus on strong skills.  I know that sounds strange, right?  Everywhere you go today, you are taught to find your child's strong skills and focus on them.  However, brain trainer's do quite the opposite.  We focus on the weaker skills since those are [...]

BrainWare Safari for Summer Sale — Single User

BrainWare Safari is an award-winning software program incorporating decades of proven clinical cognitive skill development techniques into an engaging video-game format.  Why I LOVE this product: I have had used this product by itself as a complete brain training program and also as a complimentary piece within a full brain training program.  In both scenarios, the [...]

How to Transform Your Child into an Independent Learner – Part 1

Using a system to help your child will work if you identify the current level of cognitive learning skills. You need to create an action plan that will target the weak skills and strengthen them. You shouldn’t focus on the strong skills. They’re already strong, so you need to focus on the weak ones so [...]

BrainWare Safari Program at Bailly helps pupils cultivate cognitive skills

Gary Community School Corp. educators are hopeful a new software designed to boost cognitive skills will in turn increase student achievement. Some 165 students at Bailly Preparatory Academy spend about 45 minutes a day on BrainWare Safari. The software instituted at Bailly in January reinforces cognitive skills such as attention, memory and visual processing and [...]

BrainWare for Professionals

BrainWare Safari for Professionals Cognitive Skills Defined Cognitive Skills Strengthened by BrainWare Research Summary of BrainWare Implementations in Schools Cognitive Skills and Math Cognitive Skills and Reading A Study of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Skill Therapy in Video Game Format Dr. White, Superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools provides Letter of Recommendation for BrainWare Safari   [...]

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