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Bright Minds, a New Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training (PBCT) is an evidence-based program that improves executive function and self-regulation skills and works on core cognitive skills, including Sustained Attention, Response Inhibition, Speed of Information Processing, Working Memory, Category Formation, and Pattern Recognition. Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable individuals to properly plan, remember instructions, focus attention, and balance various tasks. The brain requires this collection of abilities to filter distractions, prioritize work, create and achieve goals, and control impulses. As a result, individuals can think, learn, reason, remember, read, and pay attention more efficiently.
The effectiveness of this technique has been proven through clinical research that was published as a scientific article in the Iranian Journal of Psychiatry. The training is play-centered and contains more than 40 different games founded on a series of cognitive tasks that require active maintenance and simultaneous manipulation of visual, spatial, and verbal information.
Through Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training, we build Executive Function skills in individuals. Executive Function is the management system of the brain. It is a set of cognitive skills that are necessary for self-control and managing behaviors.
The executive function manages a wide range of skills, including:
The signs of executive function problems include:
problem controlling feelings or impulses
difficulty starting and/or finishing tasks
difficulties in organizing and planning
trouble organizing their thoughts and keeping track of their items
difficulty organizing their time
problems transferring their attention from one work to another and becoming too emotional
problems paying attention or listening
difficulties with short-term memory
Forget what they have just read or heard
trouble setting priorities
inability to balance or multitask
improper social behavior
failure to learn lessons from the past
problem-solving challenges
trouble receiving or understanding new data
problems following a set of instructions or tasks
The Warning Signs of Executive Function Problems in Children Include:
Being easily distracted
Lack of concentration
Difficulty starting, completing, or switching tasks
Missing deadlines and homework
Having trouble predicting how long a task will take
Inability to recall names and other important information
Having trouble remembering and implementing multi-step instructions
Difficulty understanding and implementing directions
Having trouble locating things
Lack of self-control
Difficulty controlling feelings
Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training (PBCT) improves cognitive skills that are critical for learning and daily life performance.
The difference between this method and other brain training methods is its significant long-lasting effects on brain functioning. The effects of this method are automatically generalized to academic learning. Individuals can apply the skills that they learned through cognitive training in their daily life. At the end of the training, through published research by Lia Khalili (Registered Child and Youth Psychotherapist), it is demonstrated that students' academic performance improved significantly and participants achieved higher scores, especially in mathematics and dictation.
Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training has an added advantage in improving the client’s attention, leading to better results in intelligence testing. As a result, the IQ test score of participants improved significantly.
Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training (PBCT) improves cognitive skills that are critical for learning and daily life performance.
Children who have the chance to receive Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training and practice executive function and self-control skills profit for the rest of their lives. These abilities are essential for learning and development. Additionally, they encourage good behavior and let individuals choose what is best for their families and themselves.
Executive function and self-regulation skills are not pre-developed in children, but they do have the potential to develop them. For the learning of these skills, some kids might require more assistance than others. In other cases, children's skill development can be significantly slowed down or impeded if they do not receive the support they require from other people and their environment, or if those influences are sources of toxic stress.
Cognitive skills are necessary for learning and development in every period of life, especially in the early years. Surprisingly, there is a big difference between academic and cognitive skills. Academic skills include knowledge about different subjects like math, science, and history. Cognitive skills are the mental capabilities that are critical for successful learning, thinking, understanding, reading, remembering, prioritizing, planning, and solving problems. Weak cognitive skills make learning difficult, even after multiple learning opportunities. Weak Cognitive Skills make Academic Learning a struggle. However, with STRONG Cognitive Skills, Academic Learning is fast, easy, and fun!
Everyone can benefit from Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training since cognitive training helps to develop necessary skills to improve performance in our daily lives and result in better learning.
In addition, cognitive training is a good choice for those who have:
Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training is applicable for different ages. However, younger children can get more benefits from this training because of their brain flexibility.
The important point is that weak cognitive skills have adverse effects on learning and demanding effects on mental health and behavior.
Children with low cognitive skills may experience a lack of success in many areas due to difficulties in completing ordinary and age-appropriate tasks. They believe that they cannot overcome obstacles or even they do not have the capabilities to do some ordinary tasks. This often leads to low self-esteem and low self-efficacy. Starting cognitive training at an early age can prevent these negative effects on children's mental health. It helps children to develop healthy beliefs towards themselves.
Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training is a play-based therapy, which improves clients’ participation in therapy through fun activities. It also leads clients to maintain increased attention toward therapy. Building positive adult-child interactions is another benefit of Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training.
While Tutoring focuses on renewing information, Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training works on brain function and develops skills to help individuals more effectively learn the information in the first place. In fact, Play-Based Cognitive Training / Brain Training addresses the root of the problem and improves the capabilities of individuals. Overall cognitive training:
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