Concentration and Memory

 

A student with attention, concentration, or memory, difficulties may experience problems in one or more of the following areas: following a lecture, timed reading, spelling, and short term memorizing. The student may also appear to day dream or fall asleep in class. The disability is often not visible. (Lissner, 1992).

Commonly Associated Disabilities of Attention, Concentration, or Memory Difficulties:

Attention Deficit Disorder.

Learning Disabilities.

Clinical Depression.

Seizure Disorders.

Head trauma.

Narcolepsy.

Increasing our information processing capacity and efficiency is more important today than ever before. The rate at which we need to process information in today's high-speed, information-packed, competitive environment can be overwhelming. Children are faced with challenges previous generations would have never imagined. Many adults feel that they are losing the ability to remember facts, figures, phone numbers, important dates and names--or simply where they left their car keys. Making matters worse, many children and adults must work unusually hard to do normal tasks, due to processing inefficiencies. In addition, the natural aging process--now impacting an increasingly older baby boomer population --erodes memory, even in the sharpest of minds.

Our clients make use of this at-home Brain Builder Program in addition to our other modalities to improve concentration and memory. Brain Builder can be purchased through a Brain Breakthrough practitioner.

Brain Builder is simple, easy-to-use software which can bring lasting changes in auditory and visual sequential processing skills and short term memory. Better sequential processing enables us to take in more of what there is to see and hear. If sequential processing is limited, it’s a little like not having enough RAM in your computer. Some things work just fine. Others work, but s-l-o-w-l-y, or more crudely. And certain things become impossible, resulting in frustration. with Brain Builder, you play up to 7 different 2-3 minute activities every day. By doing these exercises, you increase the number of pieces of information that you can take in sequentially, hold, process, and recall.

Improving your visual base digit span will help you:
• improve general comprehension
• follow written directions and instructions better
• increase your attention and decrease distractibility
• visualize and solve problems faster and more efficiently
• understand your visual world better
• increase your math and reading ability
• expand your visual short-term working memory
• discover your hidden intelligence

Improving your auditory base digit span will help you:
• improve general comprehension
• follow directions and instructions better
• increase your attention and decrease distractibility
• improve your communication skills
• increase your reading ability
• expand your auditory short-term working memory
• unleash your potential

By using Brain Builder regularly, you will experience an increase in your auditory and visual sequential processing capacities. This means you will increase the number of pieces of information that you can sequentially receive, hold, process, use and recall in short-term working memory without straining or using mental "tricks." As the pathways of your neural network proliferate and deepen, so too will your ability to absorb and process information more quickly and easily.

We encourage our clients to incorporate more than one of our techniques and tools to enhance concentration and memory and improve self esteem.

 

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