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If your child has difficulty breathing, you have them tested.
So, if your child has difficulty learning, have them tested. Determining the cause of your child's learning difficulties is the first step.
Even intelligent, straight-A students can have weak underlying learning skills. It is possible for them compensate early on for cognitive skill weaknesses, but it will be come increasingly more difficult as they get older and advance into higher grade levels. Often a student's individual cognitive skills are either not assessed or are lumped together and averaged into an IQ score. Success in learning or work is very difficult when these skills are lacking or not fully developed. Scientific research has shown that simply by improving cognitive skills, it is possible to greatly improve performance and success. When mental skills are developed or enhanced, the increased level of performance is similar to increase in performance and efficiency gained by using a computer versus using a typewriter.
Simple but accurate cognitive skill testing can reveal a student's strengths and weaknesses and help ALL students learn more effectively, efficiently and successfully.
Each of the following mental skills plays a vital role in learning performance and is, therefore, tested:
Based on the results of the skills testing, a customized training program is then prepared for your child.
Training versus Tutoring
First, it is important to understand that there are two distinct elements to learning:
While tutoring may help your child improve his grades in the specific coursework of a given subject, your child will continue to struggle from one school year to the next as new information, concepts and techniques are introduced because tutoring does not address the underlying reason your child was having difficulty in the first place — a weakness in one or more cognitive skill. In fact, since tutoring is completely dependent on the student's ability to learn, it may only be minimally successful or not successful at all.
To create the best opportunity for successful learning, a student must have strong underlying cognitive skills, and this may require specific training. Just as an unfit person can become more fit through strength training, an “untrained” brain can become stronger and more efficient through cognitive skills training! Thereby enabling the student to become a far more effective learner and achieve significantly greater academic success!
In fact, until a student's cognitive skills are improved tutoring can offer only very temporary help. A parent may end up paying for tutoring year after year, with no lasting or future success.
What is Brain Skill Training (BST) and How Does It Work?
Once specific weaknesses have been identified through accurate cognitive skills testing, a specially customized training program is developed using a series of exercises that are focused on the skills that the student needs strengthened.
Depending on the individual needs of the student, the training can focus on the any/all of the following areas:
BST is designed to challenge, not bore or frustrate the student. Although the training may seem non-academic (since so many students have had negative experiences with schoolwork), the procedures are designed to work on a subconscious level so that they become automatic and habitual, enabling the student to develop skills that they can utilize in their daily activities allowing for high retention levels.
BST gets at the cause of the problem and quickly improves the student's ability to read and to learn; thereby increasing their self-esteem and positive attitude toward learning. The training can turn an unhappy struggling student into a happy, successful, proficient one!
Training the skills that are the foundation of learning results in an almost immediate improvement in academic performance! The student also has the necessary skills to learn more effectively, efficiently and successfully in the future!
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40% of students either can't read or have problems reading; and 
BST is based on scientific research and is continually incorporates the latest scientific findings. BST targets and trains the following skills: attention and concentration, memory, processing speed, problem solving, visual processing, phonetic awareness, and comprehension. Improvement in these skill areas has been found to have a great impact on a person's learning and work performance. 
One-on-one attention is provided to each student to provide the student with immediate feedback (positive reinforcement or error correction) so that significant improvements are quickly realized. Since the student will see the dramatic difference in his or her own performance and abilities, the student's self-esteem and self-confidence will be greatly enhanced. 
By improving and developing visual and auditory processing and processing speed, logic and reasoning, and memory, cognitive skills training quickly and significantly helps both struggling students and those students already doing well in school that simply wish to excel even more! 