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Can Brain Training Games Make You a Better Driver? Allstate Insurance to Test Them : Brain Training

Article by Michael Segers

Do you feel frustrated by the lack of your child’s or students’ progress? Have you spent large sums of money on trainings, products, and programs to help your struggling child or students, but see no great gains from all your efforts? Did you know that differentiating instruction through using brain-based Superlinks learning style methods has proven to help struggling learners from grades pre-K-12 or college in regular or special education, ELL, or those with ADD/ADHD improve… Continue reading

Can Brain Training Games Make You a Better Driver? Allstate Insurance To Test Them : Brain Training

Article by Alvaro Fernandez

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Insurance company Allstate just announced a very intelligent initiative. According to the Chicago Tribune:

-“Allstate, which called the Posit program (brain training games) “potentially the next big breakthrough in automobile safety,” said it expects its software exercises to reduce risky driving maneuvers by up to 40 percent and improve stopping distance by an average of 22 feet when traveling at 55 miles per hour.”

-“We’ll look to see whether over the next… Continue reading

Improve Short And Long Term Memory – Eliminate Test Anxiety

Many bright schoolchildren get classroom grades that really do not appear to indicate their intellect. These kids do their schoolwork, work hard in the classroom, but still get lousy test grades. Parents typically misinterpret lousy scores on exams as failure to study and prepare, but this usually is not accurate. Often, test anxiety is a primary reason for low grades.

Young people who experience test anxiety typically study in private until they know the information to be tested backwards and… Continue reading