Cognitive Skills Training
Learning Like a Champ!
Cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason and pay attention. Working together, these skills take incoming information and move it into the bank of knowledge you use every day at school, at work and in life.
Each of your cognitive skills
you may be experiencing if that skill is weak.
Attention/Sustained
What it does: Enables you to stay focused and on task for a sustained period of time.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Lots of unfinished projects, jumping from task to task.
Attention/Selective
What it does: Enables you to stay focused and on task despite distractions.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Easily distracted.
Attention/Divided
What it does: Enables you to remember information while doing two things at once.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Difficulty multitasking, frequent mistakes.
Memory/Long-Term
What it does: Enables you to recall information stored in the past.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Forgetting names, doing poorly on tests, forgetting things you used to know.
Memory/Working
What it does: Enables you to hang on to information while in the process of using it.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Having to read the directions again in the middle of a project, difficulty following multi-step directions, forgetting what was just said in a conversation.
Logic & Reasoning
What it does: Enables you to reason, form ideas, and solve problems.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Frequently asking “What do I do next?” or saying “I don’t get this,” struggling with math, feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
Auditory Processing
What it does: Enables you to analyze, blend, and segment sounds.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Struggling with learning to read, reading fluency, or reading comprehension.
Visual Processing
What it does: Enables you to think in visual images.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Difficulties understanding what you’ve just read, remembering what you’ve read, following directions, reading maps, doing word math problems.
Processing Speed
What it does: Enables you to perform tasks quickly and accurately.
Common problems when this skill is weak: Most tasks are more difficult. Taking a long time to complete tasks for school or work, frequently being the last one in a group to finish something.
Will cognitive skills training help my child?
Cognitive skills training is about exercising the brain to think faster and learn easier. Movement and visual skills activities integrate the senses, improve body and attention control, spatial orientation and internal timing.
Cognitive Training works for children with:
- Dyslexia
- Math and/or reading issues
- Sensory processing disorders
- Auditory processing delays
- Neurodevelopmental delays
- ADD/ADHD
- Learning and attention challenges
Different students have different needs and no two children are exactly alike. That’s why we only use research-based, clinically tested programs customized for individual students’ needs. Our sessions are delivered by experienced, degreed specialists in a fun, caring 1-on-1 environment.
Contact Us
San Antonio
Northwoods Shopping Center (281 & 1604)18130 U.S. HWY 281 Suite 102
San Antonio, TX 78232
1-844-TX-LEARN
1-844-895-3276
Boerne
215 West Bandera Rd., Ste. 105Boerne, TX 78006
1-844-TX-LEARN
1-844-895-3276
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