Do you know what Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome is and who it affects?

  Have you ever seen a person that has rapid eye movement? It looks like their eyes are jumping all over the place like they are dancing. This person may have Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome.   Opsoclonus is defined as an unusual disorder of eye movement.  This is where the eyes involuntarily dart around and Myoclonus is defined [...]

Cognitive Problems after Chemotherapy Treatments

Many times brain problems come from an injury of some sort, but studies show chemotherapy can cause problems as well. It doesn’t matter what type of cancer you are being treated for, if you use chemotherapy, you might find you have memory loss, difficulty learning, and difficulty managing daily activities. If you experience any of [...]

Brain Games: Pattern Memory

This is a classic word scramble game. In this game you will be given a set of scrambled letters, and you are required to rearrange them into a meaningful word. If you are stuck, you can click the hints button to get the meaning of the word.  Find more games – added weekly to this [...]

Activities – Build Writing Muscles with a Water Relay

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing his name an excruciating task?  For many young writers, it is. While your first instinct may be to have him practice writing more letters, weak muscles are often the cause of the problem. There are lots of fun ways to help kids build up muscle control, [...]

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 [...]

Brain Games – Sandwhich Shop (Following Directions)

In this game you need to run a sandwich shop and make sandwiches based on customers' orders. Use the mouse the drag the ingredients to make a sandwich. Hams and eggs must be put to the pan to be cooked first before they are ready to be put into the sandwich. Don't overcook the hams [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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