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Is your child learning to their potential? Are there cognitive gaps that are standing in their way of academic and life success? BrainWare Learning’s solutions can support and strengthen your child’s cognitive capacity and improve the outlook for your child’s future.
Cognitive skills are the foundation for learning, whether literacy, STEM, or social-emotional skills. Our solutions address Pre-K through college and a broad range of abilities from students needing interventions to gifted. Understanding and improving students’ cognitive skills transforms learning, especially for struggling students.
BrainWare Learning’s solutions integrate multidisciplinary clinical techniques in flexible applications that support home and office use, and provide measurable cognitive growth across cognitive processes that is sustainable and transferable.
The modern workplace runs to a significant degree on the cognitive abilities of its workers. Identify and strengthen the cognitive skills that keep employees from reaching their potential. Enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, and social-emotional skills for the workers and leaders of tomorrow.
Is your child learning to their potential? Are there cognitive gaps that are standing in their way of academic and life success? BrainWare Learning’s solutions can support and strengthen your child’s cognitive capacity and improve the outlook for your child’s future.
Cognitive skills are the foundation for learning, whether literacy, STEM, or social-emotional skills. Our solutions address Pre-K through college and a broad range of abilities from students needing interventions to gifted. Understanding and improving students’ cognitive skills transforms learning, especially for struggling students.
BrainWare Learning’s solutions integrate multidisciplinary clinical techniques in flexible applications that support home and office use, and provide measurable cognitive growth across cognitive processes that is sustainable and transferable.
The modern workplace runs to a significant degree on the cognitive abilities of its workers. Identify and strengthen the cognitive skills that keep employees from reaching their potential. Enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, and social-emotional skills for the workers and leaders of tomorrow.
Cognitive development refers to the evolution, growth and improvement of a person's cognitive skills (mental processes or intelligence) over time. In general, children’s cognitive skills improve as they get older, allowing them to think more complex thoughts, to reason in a more adult fashion, and to solve more difficult problems. The obvious difference between a child’s thinking processes and those of an adult have been the basis of investigation and have led to various theories of cognitive development.
Many researchers have characterized the cognitive development of children as stages in which the ability to think in certain ways and the quality and nature of one’s thought processes change in consistent and significant ways. Jean Piaget’s theory of the stages of development has been one of the most influential.
From the work of Piaget and others evolved the notion that, if child development follows a particular trajectory or sequence of stages, then one can measure the attainment of milestones and find children who are ahead of or behind a "typical" pace in their development. This theory of cognitive development has been supported and extended by research on intelligence and the evidence that individuals become more intelligent – that is better at solving problems or thinking in certain ways – as they get older – at least up to a certain age. Thus, assessments of intelligence involve comparison to a peer group of some kind.
Research and debate on the nature of intelligence has been extensive, particularly on the relative contributions of nature (genetics) and nurture (the environment) and on whether intelligence represents a single capacity or multiple capacities.
The nature vs. nurture argument, as it relates to cognitive development, has been largely put to rest. The broad consensus is that the interaction of genetic and environmental contributions both influence an individual’s level of intelligence, and that nature and nurture interact in complex ways.
Efforts to define intelligence have yielded significant diversity of opinion. Characterizing intelligence as one thing no longer has the support it once did. The idea that intelligence comprises multiple capacities is broadly accepted. Since the evidence supports the role of many different cognitive skills in learning, we generally refer to cognitive skills rather than using the term "intelligence." Thus cognitive development can be thought of as the development and maturation, through interaction with the environment, of the cognitive skills that make us effective in school, work and our daily lives.
Understanding my son's cognitive skills transformed our conversations about learning and schoolwork. Then cognitive training filled the gaps
Research showed remediation of cognitive skills for students with specific learning disabilities to the level of typically developing students.
Students at Ivy Tech Community College in Muncie, IN improved their performance on an adult IQ test by 6 to 21 points, following cognitive training.
Students in 2nd through 8th grades experienced significant cognitive and academic growth at Glenwood Academy, a residential school in Illinois.
3rd Grade Students at Pope John Paul II in Lecanto, FL, saw average scores jump 14 percentile points on verbal, quantitative and nonverbal tests.
Students in Harbor Beach, MI working with Curtis Boehmer, SLP, achieved gains that matched growth from cognitive training seen in prior research.
Cognitive training in a new hire training program in an oil refinery helped more trainees successfully complete the requirements of the training.
79% of the students at Maple Crest Middle School in Kokomo, IN, who used BrainWare SAFARI along with their reading intervention had a year of growth by December.
The Knowledge Center is the archive of studies, commentary, news, both serious and fun, that we encourage you to explore to learn more about how brains work and how to make them stronger, and how learning can become deeper and more enduring.
Cognitive skills are the mental processes our brains use to take in, organize, understand, and retrieve information. Cognitive skills include mental processes such as visual processing, processing speed, attention and working memory. Cognitive skills enable us to learn, to think and to solve problems.
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