| Back to School Brain training for kids | | | | children without disorders also further develop their |
| Though brain training research is still in its infancy, | | | | cognitive skills, such as attention, memory, thinking and |
| increasingly more studies are indicating that brain | | | | reasoning, visual perception, and even executive |
| training games do indeed have positive effects not | | | | functions. Brain training for kids improving all the time |
| only on adults, but children as well. During september | | | | Fun factor key to children’s brain training results on |
| when kids go back to school learning and motivation | | | | their way back to school |
| are primary issues. | | | | The secret to successful training is not only in the |
| What’s long been known is that through proper | | | | science behind these games, but the degree to which |
| training, youngsters can better develop their cognitive | | | | they engage the child. In other words, the greater the |
| skills, and at a faster rate than grown ups. Until now, | | | | fun factor, the more the child will be motivated to train. |
| most research has focused on children with ADD or | | | | Studies also indicate that when a parent “plays” |
| ADHD, especially in areas of concentration, memory, | | | | along with them, the child progresses significantly more. |
| response control, and information processing speed. | | | | As neuroscientists continue to discover the effects |
| While children diagnosed with disorders have | | | | brain training games are having on children, common |
| demonstrated improvements in their abilities, a number | | | | sense suggests that brain training can only help. |
| of brain training games are also on the market to help | | | | |