Tutoring re-teaches material that should already have been learned but was not. Before investing in tutoring you should ask, “Why didn’t he learn this the first time it was presented?” Unless the answer is obvious (such as missing school for an extended period of time), tutoring will likely be a frustrating and expensive choice. BrainRx is radically different. We answer a different question: “How strong is his or her ability to learn?” Our testing and training strengthens the key underlying mental skills that are essential for easy, fast learning instead of trying to compensate for skill weaknesses. If skills weakness is a root cause of your child’s learning struggle, tutoring simply cannot correct it.

The answer is no, not in most cases. Learning, reading, or attention difficulties rarely go away with time. If you sense that your child is struggling, you must take action. People who struggle to learn or read do so for a reason, and new brain science shows individual cognitive skill weaknesses are the most likely reason. Yes, you could accommodate his or her problem by changing the environment, creating lower expectations, or focusing only on strengths; however, these choices limit your child’s future potential. Only through professional testing and training can you identify and overcome the exact cause of a learning struggle and create a strategy that will produce both immediate and lifelong change.

Most reading struggles happen as a result to a weakness in auditory processing. This is the cognitive skill that the brain uses to identify, segment, and blend sounds. However, other weak skills can contribute to reading struggles too. For example, poor memory skills can make it difficult to recall sounds and their associations, poor attention skills can mean a reader is distracted frequently, and poor visual can lead to poor comprehension as it can keep a reader from creating the mental pictures that help them comprehend and engage with what they just read. Our brain training strengthens each of these weaknesses.

Not at all. Many of our clients are, in fact, adults of all ages and stages of life, from the college-bound, to career builders, to seniors.