Each individual has unique cognitive strengths and weaknesses. Wherever an individual starts on the spectrum of ability, his/her mental performance can be improved. The following 6 principles will help you discover how the brain develops and applies what it learns:
- An individual's learning ability is not genetically predetermined in the way that physical attributes like red hair or blue eyes are determined.
- The plasticity of the brain is greater in children, but the brain exhibits the ability to change and develop throughout life.
- Human learning is hierarchical and starts with the simplest of neurological processes.
- Processing skills are highly integrated in effective brain functioning.
- The brain can only perform one skill consciously at a time.
- Researchers estimate that 80% of what we learn involves our visual system.
The Learning Lab is offering BrainWare Safari which is a computer program that looks and feels like a video game, yet it is serious brain training that contains twenty exercises which reinforce the others' effectiveness. Building cognitive skills may be a goal for your child. These skills include attention, visual processing, auditory processing, sensory integration and memory. These activities help children to:
- See the big picture while getting the details.
- Remember a specific structure.
- Become more proficient at recalling a series of details.
- See relationships between information.
- Make inferences
- Pull out important points in a "maze of details."
Students draw on these cognitive processing skills throughout their school day and in the evening working through their homework. Cognitive strengths empower learning and enhance memory.
The Highlands Ability Battery is a career and aptitude test for High School Students and Adults.
Many high school and college students don’t know how their talents, abilities and interests relate to their academic and career objectives. Learning Lab offers the Highlands Ability Battery, which measures natural aptitudes that relate to “best fit” career planning.
Students take the Highlands Ability Battery on their own, on a home computer.
A report is immediately generated, describing individual abilities in a wide variety of areas including problem solving, communication, spatial relations, visual reasoning, creativity and memory.
Learning Lab supplements the Highlands report with a two-hour consultation with a counselor trained to interpret the test findings and interpret how they relate to career choices.
