1. Processing Speed: How rapidly and correctly the brain can move through written material to find what it is looking for. How quickly the brain processes information.
2. Active Working Memory: The brain’s ability to make a protein print (called an engram) and retrieve that piece of information from its memory.
3. Visual Perception/Processing Skills: The brain’s ability to handle information from pictures, drawings, and shapes.
This deals with our ability to use maps, graphs, charts, or set up word problems and can help students who struggle with math.
4. Central Auditory Processing: The brain’s ability to blend, interpret, and use the 44 sounds of the English language.
Problems in this area are one of the best indicators of Dyslexia.
Issues in this area result in difficulty concentrating, listening, reading, remembering, writing paragraphs and papers, spelling and following directions.
5. Word Attack: The brain’s ability to sound out words.
This allows you to successfully sound out and pronounce any word in the English language regardless of the length or difficulty of the word.
6. Logic and Reasoning: The brain’s ability to break down complex projects into a sequence of steps.
Students who are strong in logic and reasoning like to figure things out on their own, but if they have a short attention span, this can become very difficult and frustrating.
Logic and reasoning exercises train the brain to focus, pay attention and concentrate and can help with ADD/ADHD.