What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition? We are Brain Trainers! Our program offers solutions for students struggling with learning difficulties as well as those who simply want to sharpen their mental skills. As the largest one-on-one brain training company in the world, our programs consist of a series of targeted mental exercises—done with a personal brain trainer or clinician over the course of 12 to 54 weeks. We are quite different from tutoring, as training is very game-like and non-academic. We do it through a series of intense (but fun!) mental exercises that work on the way the brain thinks, learns, reads, and remembers.

Do you provide any materials? What should your students expect to bring? Find out "Why" your child struggles with reading and learning today! Did you know that many struggles with thinking, learning and attention are caused by weak cognitive skills? We start with a Comprehensive Cognitive assessment to find the cause. Just as headaches can be caused by several things such as stress, sinuses, blood pressure and eye strain to name a few...you must first find out what is causing the headache to properly address the problem. Our brain training programs target those very skills identified.

What was the inspiration to start or run this business? I got involved in LearningRx after seeing the transformative results of cognitive skills training. I heard parents talk about their children who no longer needed a remedial class, lost the “dyslexic” symptoms, improved memory skills, developed increased confidence academically, socially and athletically. I was awed learning about soldiers who struggled with traumatic brain injuries and were able to progressively strengthen mental skills toward greater levels than that onset with TBI. My passion for changing lives through education grew out of my own “then unrealized” learning struggles as a high school graduate with significant scholarship and financial support opportunities on the table. I enrolled in a local Ivy League College but within my first year, I failed miserably. First academic probation and eventually suspension. Even though I graduated high school with Salutatorian Honors as #2 of my class of more than 200 students, I struggled with underlying learning skills. For me, it was reading comprehension, memory, procrastination and study skills. It seemed as though I was smart because everything came so easy to me. I also struggled with an “all or nothing” attitude in which I believed that I must be the absolute best or nothing at all. This attitude prevented me from even trying to learn things that did not seem to come easy to me. Like many others simply having a high GPA and being smart was not enough.

What do you love most about your job? My personal philosophy is to live life to the fullest, reach for the stars, strive for excellence and empower others to do the same through teaching, training, mentoring, inspiring, leadership and pseudo counseling. As both a pioneer and leader in the field of brain training, not all cognitive training programs are alike! Foremost, LearningRx programs are 1-on-1, comprehensive; targeting and training seven key cognitive skills and multiple sub-skills. It is also highly intensive, including an average of 60 to 120 hours of cognitive training over several months. Our brain trainers know exactly how to encourage and challenge clients past their comfort zones and into the thrill of new accomplishments.