What is the required Cognitive Skill Builder program?
The Cognitive Skill Builder training program used at The Reading Lab is a continuum that begins with
strengthening the foundational cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing, and sequencing and continues
through to the foundational reading skills of vocabulary, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and
comprehension.
This therapeutic program employs patented software especially designed using the principles of neuroscience
to build an individual's learning capacity.
What exactly do you mean by 'designed with neuroscience principles' ?
Neuroscience, or brain research, has made huge strides over the past 30 years. Here are a few of the facts we
currently know:
It is with this knowledge, and more, that the program was developed. By following the prescribed protocol for
its use, this technology is actually rewiring the brain to be more receptive to learning.
How do you know it really works?
We know through the results of continuous research. Since its origins in university labs, scientists have
continuously tracked the gains resulting from students using the program. To date, there are thousands of
research studies tracking students all over the world. And The Reading Lab continues that research by testing
students before and after their training.
In addition, the independent research conducted by Stanford University has used brain imaging to document
that after using the program, areas of the brain that were weak prior to use, were activated (turned on) after
product use.
Who can benefit from training?
Anyone can benefit from the training offered at The Reading Lab, because the programs work to strengthen
cognitive and auditory processing skills, therefore, we can all benefit from its use.
Research has clearly proven that all types of learners benefit from training:
Participants have had profound life changing results from using the programs.
What is auditory processing and why is it important?
Auditory processing is the term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the
sounds around you. Humans hear when energy that we recognize as sound travels through the ear and is
changed into electrical information that can be interpreted by the brain.
How quickly can we expect results?
It depends on the individual's goals. The brain needs a certain amount of repeated stimulation in order to
remember new information and to integrate it for functional use. These frequent, intense training experiences
help the brain to change. Some see results in a few weeks, others require a few months. On average, it takes at
least 40 hours of training to obtain desired results.
Besides reading, what other programs do you offer?
Some children may require preparatory listening training to help make the brain available for more intensive
training. We have added a music-based auditory stimulation listening program for that purpose. This program is
done at home, listening to specially recorded music which uses patented neuro-sonic technology treatments.
In addition, we have programs for developing reading fluency, comprehension, word skills, speed reading, and
math and grammar fitness. All of these additional programs were selected because of their solid research base
and proven results.
The Cognitive Skill Builder training program used at The Reading Lab is a continuum that begins with
strengthening the foundational cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing, and sequencing and continues
through to the foundational reading skills of vocabulary, phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and
comprehension.
This therapeutic program employs patented software especially designed using the principles of neuroscience
to build an individual's learning capacity.
What exactly do you mean by 'designed with neuroscience principles' ?
Neuroscience, or brain research, has made huge strides over the past 30 years. Here are a few of the facts we
currently know:
- The brain can increase its capacity to learn over a lifetime. Which means you really can 'teach an old dog
new tricks'. - Language acquisition at an early age has a direct connection to how your brain develops its ability to read.
- How well you process sounds, or the smallest part of a word (phonemes) such as "ba" in the word bat, will
directly affect your ability to associate sounds with letters. - Certain conditions, such as positive reinforcement, encourage learning.
- Neural circuits are continuously redefined through experience and learning.
It is with this knowledge, and more, that the program was developed. By following the prescribed protocol for
its use, this technology is actually rewiring the brain to be more receptive to learning.
How do you know it really works?
We know through the results of continuous research. Since its origins in university labs, scientists have
continuously tracked the gains resulting from students using the program. To date, there are thousands of
research studies tracking students all over the world. And The Reading Lab continues that research by testing
students before and after their training.
In addition, the independent research conducted by Stanford University has used brain imaging to document
that after using the program, areas of the brain that were weak prior to use, were activated (turned on) after
product use.
Who can benefit from training?
Anyone can benefit from the training offered at The Reading Lab, because the programs work to strengthen
cognitive and auditory processing skills, therefore, we can all benefit from its use.
Research has clearly proven that all types of learners benefit from training:
- Gifted and talented learners
- Average to above average readers
- Below average, at-risk learners
- Limited English speakers
- Language learning disabled
- Children with ADHD, dyslexia, high-functioning autism, CAPD, or other listening, language, or processing
disorders - All grade levels
Participants have had profound life changing results from using the programs.
What is auditory processing and why is it important?
Auditory processing is the term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the
sounds around you. Humans hear when energy that we recognize as sound travels through the ear and is
changed into electrical information that can be interpreted by the brain.
How quickly can we expect results?
It depends on the individual's goals. The brain needs a certain amount of repeated stimulation in order to
remember new information and to integrate it for functional use. These frequent, intense training experiences
help the brain to change. Some see results in a few weeks, others require a few months. On average, it takes at
least 40 hours of training to obtain desired results.
Besides reading, what other programs do you offer?
Some children may require preparatory listening training to help make the brain available for more intensive
training. We have added a music-based auditory stimulation listening program for that purpose. This program is
done at home, listening to specially recorded music which uses patented neuro-sonic technology treatments.
In addition, we have programs for developing reading fluency, comprehension, word skills, speed reading, and
math and grammar fitness. All of these additional programs were selected because of their solid research base
and proven results.
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Paula A. Tallal, Ph.D., a director of Scientific Learning Corporation,
is also a Board of Governors’ professor of neuroscience at Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey, where she helped found and
currently co-directs the Center for Molecular and Behavioral
Neuroscience.
is also a Board of Governors’ professor of neuroscience at Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey, where she helped found and
currently co-directs the Center for Molecular and Behavioral
Neuroscience.
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