Activities and Brain Skills Used:

  Reading - auditory processing, visual processing, attention span, memory
  Math - logic, visual perception, spatial reasoning, concentration, memory
  Conversation - auditory processing, organization of thought, word finding, oral-motor skills
  Sports - visual-motorcoordination, balance, visual processing, spatial reasoning, accurate response time

School was difficult for Alex, because he had learning disabilities in reading and auditory memory. Nearly every morning Alex cried, because he didn’t want to go to school. After completin a brain training program, Alex made dramatic improvements in his grades. He progressed so much, that he no longer needed special education services. Now, Alex gets his homework done without frustration, reads for enjoyment, and gets As and Bs on his schoolwork. His proud parents are seeing a happy child, whose abilities are being fully realized.

A doctor participated in a home brain training program, because he was interested in increasing his memory. He was amazed at his fast improvement in both visual and auditory memory. Not only did his scores improve rapidly, but he was surprised to notice almost immediate improvement in his hand-eye coordination.

Brain Training at Brain Works

Brain Works offers fun, affordable and powerful brain training sessions for children and adults at the center and offers products for home brain training programs.

Three types of activities used for brain training at Brain Works:
–mental exercises on the computer
–visual-motor-balance exercises
–music-based auditory training

For teens who are learning to drive and for adults who want to recover lost driving skills, we have a driving program with a computer program, steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal. Visual-motor coordination, visual attention, quick processing and decision making are developed with this safe form of driving practice.

Each of the activities provided by Brain Works creates brain growth and strengthens neural connections among important skill areas in the brain. We combine activities whenever possible. For example, clients will listen to their auditory training music, while they are doing balance board activities. We do this, because neurons that fire together, wire together. The brain becomes far more flexible, when it uses several different skills at the same time.

Whether you do brain training at Brain Works or in your home, the results can include faster processing of written and spoken information, better reasoning, quicker response time, improved memory, better focus and more ease of learning.

We see improvements in reading, writing, math, reasoning, auditory processing, visual-motor skills, communication skills, memory, attention span, work skills, athletic abilities and social skills.

Goals for Brain Training:

• Students (learning challenged, average, gifted) - improve attention span, memory, auditory processing, reading, math, receptive and expressive language, reasoning, sensory integration, coordination, organization, processing speed and left/right brain integration.
• Adults - increase memory, concentration, clarity of thought, organization, word finding while speaking, listening comprehension, balance, coordination, and creativity. Most skills lost due to lack of use, aging, illness or brain injury can improved.
• Athletes - develop better visual-motor skills, balance, peripheral vision, spatial reasoning, focus and response time.

The most fundamental skills that contribute to our learning ability are visual processing, auditory processing, sensory integration, memory, attention span and movement.

The centers for these foundational skills are found in various parts of the brain. It is important for the brain cells in each area to form pathways that connect with other regions of the brain. With good connections, the brain regions can work as a team.

For example, when we read, the auditory and the visual brain areas work together through their highway of brain cell connections.  The visual region allows us to see printed words, and the auditory region helps us remember the letter sounds. We then pronounce the words aloud or silently as we read.

Good readers have enough visual and auditory connections, that they instantly recognize the sight and sound of familiar words. Readers with poor neural connections may spend time sounding out words, and then find they do not remember how to pronounce the words, when they see them in the future.

If there are not enough brain pathways connecting the basic visual, auditory and motor regions of the brain, children and adults often have difficulty with a variety of tasks such as comprehending conversations, expressing their thoughts, achieving in reading, writing and math, writing legibly or performing decently in sports.

Children who have insufficient brain or neural pathways often experience frustration and underachieve at school. They may also be hypersensitive to sounds or touch, have an attention problem or have problems with coordination.

Adults who have problems remaining from childhood or who are slowing down with age, tend to find their need for better neural connections show up as mediocre work performance due to attention and memory difficulties, less communication in social situations and poorer physical coordination.