Can Brain Training Really Help a Child With a Learning Disability?

If we want a healthy brain we must stimulate and use it. Brain exercises are important for anyone who wants to think clearer and faster. Moreover, there is specialized training to build areas of the brain through intense one-on-one training that will yield lifelong results. This intense training targets strong and weak areas of brain development. In practical terms, cognitive processing training takes abilities such as concentration, long and short-term memory, visualization, visual memory and other abilities that we all have in measure, and improves and enhances them. Without these skills operating at peak performance, children have difficulty learning. Anyone can benefit from cognitive training but children particularly need this training to improve learning capacity.

A disability is defined in Websters dictionary as a limitation or restriction. A child with a learning disability is restricted and limited in learning capacity when one or more learning skills is underdeveloped. For example, memory is an area of the brain in which we all would like to see improvement. Memory is a cognitive skill or ability that can be developed and improved with proper training. Targeted training, pinpoints the areas of the brain that need improvement and works on the weak areas while strengthening the higher functioning ones, such as the following examples:

Timmy reads so slowly that the text has no meaning and he never finishes his work on time
Amy is a fast reader but skips words and lines when reading and lacks comprehension
Jake lacks concentration, has poor memory skills and a short attention span
Steve goes to tutoring for several months each year and catches up with class and then falls behind in school again.

These problems will never go away and will only get worse over time. An intervention of intense training will lay a strong foundation for success. One-on-one training can be done in a clinical setting or at home or school. After an evaluation is made and the weak areas of cognitive development are identified, training should begin. In only a few weeks children can improve processing speed by 2 to 4 years.