Cognitive Enhancement

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Cognitive Enhancement

At TLC, we provide personalized 1:1 cognitive enhancement therapy tailored to build the underlying processing skills needed for academic success. We understand that every student has unique learning needs, and our approach focuses on honing cognitive skills essential for academic achievement in students.

Through regular individual sessions, we target areas such as memory, processing speed, divided and sustained attention, problem-solving, and critical thinking. By enhancing these cognitive abilities, we empower students to thrive in school, enabling them to grasp complex concepts confidently with independence.

Our highly trained clinicians work closely with each student, identifying specific challenges and crafting specialized strategies to overcome them. We believe that a strong foundation in cognitive skills is the key to unlocking academic potential, and we are dedicated to providing the support and guidance needed for students to thrive in their educational pursuits.

Some of the cognitive processing areas developed are briefly described here:

AUDITORY PROCESSING
how one processes sounds; helps one hear the difference, order, and number of sounds in words faster; a basic skill needed to learn to read and spell; helps with speech defects.

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION
to hear differences in sounds such as loudness, pitch, duration, and phoneme.

AUDITORY SEGMENTING
break apart words into separate sounds.

AUDITORY BLENDING
to blend individual sounds to form words.

AUDITORY ANALYSIS
to determine the number, sequence, and which sounds are within a word.

AUDITORY-VISUAL ASSOCIATION
to be able to link a sound with an image.

COMPREHENSION
to understand words and concepts.

DIVIDED ATTENTION
to attend to and handle two or more tasks at one time such as taking notes while listening and carrying totals while adding the next column. Required for handling tasks quickly or tasks with complexity.

LOGIC AND REASONING
to reason, plan, and think.

LONG-TERM MEMORY
to retrieve past information.

MATH COMPUTATIONS
to do math calculations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

PROCESSING SPEED
the speed at which the brain processes information.

SACCADIC FIXATION
to move the eyes accurately and quickly from one point to another.

SELECTIVE ATTENTION
to stay on task even when distraction is present.

SENSORY-MOTOR INTEGRATION
to have the sensory skills work well with the motor skills — such as with eye-hand coordination.

SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING
to process chunks of information that are received one after another.

SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSING
to process chunks of information that are received all at once.

SUSTAINED ATTENTION
to be able to stay on task.

VISUAL PROCESSING
to process and make use of visual images. Helps one create mental pictures faster and more vividly; helps one understand and “see” word math problems and read maps; improves reading comprehension skills.

VISUAL DISCRIMINATION
to see differences in size, color, shape, distance, and orientation of objects.

VISUAL MANIPULATION
to flip, rotate, move, change color, etc. of objects and images in one’s mind.

VISUALIZATION
to create mental images or pictures.

VISUAL SPAN
helps one see more and wider in a single look. Improves side vision. Enables faster reading and better, faster decisions in sports.

WORKING MEMORY
to retain information while processing or using it.

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The Learning Skills Continuum approach ensures that we can identify and treat all of the underlying skills that are at the root of learning and attention challenges.

Our vision is to create permanent changes in the lives of students who have experienced failure or frustration transforming their experience to confidence and independence.

Whether it’s specialized tutoring, educational therapy, cognitive enhancement therapy, alternative schooling or support for homeschooling families, we are committed to providing high quality, tailored solutions.

Our vision is to create permanent changes in the lives of students who have experienced failure or frustration transforming their experience to confidence and independence.

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