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Brain -Training and Premature Children

There's a growing field of cognitive brain training researchers investigating new methods of "training the brain".

Learning skills testing reveals that some children have cognitive deficits, specifically in working memory.

Most children can actually strengthen their attention skills with an intense cognitive training program.

Does your child have difficulty organizing activities?

Does your child feel that learning is too hard?

Is your child distracted by other activities?

Does your child take a long time to complete tasks?

Does your child often ask to have things repeated?

Attention and memory skills can be improved by using daily brain training exercises.

Make Your Child Brilliant: On UK Five TV

Bernadette Tynan

Make Your Child Brilliant is a brand new TV show, launching on Channel Five Thursday night

10-01-08 at 9PM.

Bernadette will travel nationwide and visit a different British school each week. Looking beyond exam results, Bernadette will select children whose gifts and abilities can slip under the radar in today’s education system.

Using brain-training techniques, Bernadette will teach children to have confidence in themselves and their gifts, encouraging them to achieve.

Bernadette will share the secrets of her brain-training techniques and will demonstrate how to identify and unlock hidden gifts. With information on taking the fear out of tests and top tips on how to work with your child’s school.

Bernadette Tynan, said: “The ideas, innovation and creativity of our children are Britain’s future. In an exam-crazed system, not every child’s gifts can be captured on pen and paper tests. Every child deserves an opportunity to be brilliant.”

A Paediatrician on Helping your Child with ADD or ADHD

" I am afraid that many schools are too quick to diagnose ADD/ ADHD and consider drugs as the only potential intervention. The label itself can be misleading and counterproductive. School psychologists have wonderful expertise in evaluating subject-related problems and describing attentional deficit symptomatology, but are not trained or asked to complete neuropsychological profiles of a child's cognitive functions. Up to a point, many kids with attention problems would benefit from educational, not medical, interventions to improve cognitive functions such as working memory. I am seeing it first hand, having used a Working Memory Training program with 15 pre-screened kids: 80% of them presented a substantive improvement. With 50%, the results we have seen have been dramatic."

Cognitive Fitness Ten Debunked Myths

Neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramon y Cajal claimed in the XX century, "Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor his own brain", and that may well become reality in the XXI. Let's now debunk 10 myths, still too prevalent, that prevent us from seeing the full potential of this emerging cognitive and brain fitness field.

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