Brain Training Program

Improve Your Child’s Cognitive Skills & Academic Abilities

Brain Training reflects a hypothesis that cognitive abilities can be improved by exercising the brain, in a similar analogy to the way physical fitness is improved by exercising the body. Cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention. In addition to these, cognitive skills are needed for daily functioning at school, work, and day-to-day life. Brain training trains an individual to use their cognitive skills effectively to think and learn. 

Each of your cognitive skills plays an important part in processing information. Grasping, retaining, or using information is affected even if one of these skills are weak. Generally, most learning struggles are caused by one or more weak cognitive skills.

How do we do it? 

Assumption Learning is a one-on-one Therapy centre that targets the underlying skills of learning and performing. We help kids and adults with reading struggles and dyslexia, attention struggles and ADHD, memory decline, learning disabilities, and much more.

Brain Training at Assumption Learning is a program of regular mental activities designed to engage all 5 core functions: Speed; Memory; Focus; Adaptability; and Reasoning. The program comprises of repetitive cognitive activities that gradually increases in complexities as the child’s skills and abilities improve. This series of repetitive mental activities works on one’s speed, problem-solving, and memory capabilities. Once strengthened, these skills not only enhance one’s capacity to learn, but also leads to naturally increased confidence, improvement in self-esteem, internal self-motivation, and a lifetime potential for achievement. 

Prior to the start of our Brain Training program, a pre-assessment will be personally conducted by one of our Certified Therapists. You or your child will be given a simple cognitive exercise designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of your child’s cognitive skills. Based on the assessment results, the trainer will recommend the appropriate program to enhance your child’s foundational learning skills.

Ultimately, we want to maximise your/ your child’s cognitive abilities. Complexity and intensity will increase as your capabilities are strengthened to ensure your/your child’s progress is moved to higher level functioning. Post-evaluation assessments will be conducted periodically to determine your improvement and/or re-assess your program delivery. 

How will Brain Training benefit you or your child?

Brain Training develops cognitive skills through a series of exercises and activities to enhance and strengthen each cognitive skill: Processing Speed, Visual Processing, Auditory Processing, Working memory, Logic and Reasoning, and Attention skills: Sustained Attention, Selective Attention, Divided Attention.  

1. PROCESSING SPEED

   the pace at which someone perceives visual or auditory information, makes sense of the perceived information, and then respond. Basically, processing speed is the amount of time taken to complete a task. 

2. VISUAL PROCESSING

   The ability to make sense of information taken in through the eyes. Visual processing is not a problem with eyesight but an inability of the brain to process the visual world such as and not limiting to symbols and pictures. Weaknesses in these areas of the brain are called visual processing disorders which heavily impacts learning. 

3. AUDITORY PROCESSING

   The process of the brain recognizing and interpreting of sounds taken in through the ears. Auditory processing disorders are caused when the ear and brain do not coordinate fully to make sense of the hearing. Auditory processing disorder is usually identified as the underlying cause for speech and language delays and learning issues in classroom settings. 

4. WORKING MEMORY

   A cognitive system is also known as the short-term memory bank. It temporarily holds and manipulates information. The overall working memory accounts for how we temporarily manipulate and store information during thinking and reasoning activities in our daily life. Working memory is an underlying skill for reasoning, decision making, and behaviour. 

5. LOGIC AND REASONING

   This can be simply understood as rational thinking and an integral component required for critical thinking/analysis. 

   • Propositional Reasoning

     Perceived as the key to solution finding, this skill is ubiquitous in daily life and it is a form of logical reasoning at the stage of formal thinking. Propositional reasoning describes a child’s understanding of words and/or statements and the ability to reason out between two or more related assertions. 

   • Spatial Reasoning

     Known as a subgroup of reasoning skills that basically determines your ability to mentally re-arrange objects without physically touching them. This reasoning ability allows you to visualize three-dimensional images in your mind and mentally manipulate them and aids in the conceptualization skills involved in engineering, technology, mathematics, and science.

   • Fluid Intelligence/Analogical Reasoning

     Our brain works by patterns and associations and an analogy is a comparison two or more ideas/things that are quite different and the identification of similarities between these. Analogical reasoning is the ability to explain the identified commonalities and generating further inferences driven by these commonalities with other situations. It is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and is a key element in problem-solving, categorization, and decision-making. 

   6. Attention Skills

   Attention is the ability to stay focused on a particular task. There are three types of attention skills that our Brain Training program works on: Sustained Attention; Selective Attention; Divided Attention. 

   • Sustained attention

     The ability to stay focused on a given task for a required period of time.

     • Auditory attention/ Auditory sustained attention - Auditory attention is the ability to take in important auditory information whilst filtering the unnecessary. It is the ability to focus on the important information and more importantly, shift focus when required. And, auditory sustained attention is characterized by the selectivity and intensity of information processing.

     • Visual Attention/ Visual sustained attention – Similar to auditory attention, visual attention is the ability to take in, focus and comprehend visual information (information perceived through vision). Similarly, visual sustained attention is the ability to focus on visual information without distraction, the ability to sustain and/or focus and shift focus when necessary.

• Selective Attention

  What to pay attention to and what to ignore? Selective attention is the ability to tune out unimportant details whist focusing on a particular object or required task. An individual with selective attention issues will find it difficult to engage, focus, or work in an environment with many distractions such as classroom settings or shopping malls. 

• Divided Attention

  A higher-level attention skill where you have to do two or more activities at the same time and attention is required for all activities at that given time. For example, listening to the teacher, writing down notes, and questioning unclear information. Sometimes even as simple as writing a short story and keeping in memory the punctuation and grammar rules. 

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