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Real Moms Discuss LearningRx Success

“Has anyone had successes/failures at LearningRx?”

It was a simple question posted on a local mom’s online network, but the responses were more than enthusiastic. Almost immediately, the woman who raised the question received responses from moms who raved about what LearningRx brain training had done for their children.

Here’s what these real-life moms had to say:

“YES! LearningRx will help your child…LRx is VERY different from anything else you can do. It’s not tutoring, but cognitive training. Retraining the brain…will make all the difference. We didn’t have the money at the time, but felt we couldn’t put a price on our child’s success and found a way to do it. Absolutely NO regrets.”

Another mom responded, “Yes! Yes! Yes! I agree. Both my sons have participated in the LearningRx program and…it has made all the difference in the world! The Director of LRx did EVERYTHING to help us fit this training into our budget. I am so grateful for her kindness. It is expensive, but having an unorganized unhappy child that just ‘gets by’ in school vs the happy, confident engaged learners we have now??? Priceless.”

Yet another mom wrote, “YES I AGREE, LearningRx is the best thing that happened to my son. He is a strong reader but always struggled in math [and] has ADHD on top of it. I’m a stay at home mom and we live on my husband’s income so I too was skeptical about spending the extra money. But I was looking at what my son needed. Needless to say, he is more organized, deals with his ADHD better, we rarely have homework (no more argument!), his grades are better and he brought home his first A ever in math. All I have to say is thank you LearningRx.”

A fourth mom added, “My son started the program in December and I am so glad we did this. He is already happier and more confident. He raises his hand in class eager to tell the teacher the answer. We no longer struggle on homework for hours. My son actually thanks me for taking him to LearningRx because now he doesn’t not have to struggle to get good grades.”

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Brain Training Success

What do you do when your child is performing poorly in school and, as a result, can’t sleep at night? Dreads school? Has low self-esteem and chronic headaches?

One mom, a doctor, looked to tutoring, neurologists, therapists and even biofeedback. She explains, “I was doing all these things from a medical standpoint, even though I knew deep down [the problem] was rooted in her learning disability and anxiety over that.”

After hearing about cognitive training at LearningRx, this mom says, “As a physician, it made sense to me that this was the route we had to take.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Personal Thanks – A Mom’s Journal

Thank you for following this story. The family whose story is told in this “Mom’s Journal” is a real family, and the details and improvements made by “Jake” are true. Here is a thank you note that was written by the real Mom behind the Mom’s Journal, to the people at the center where Jake was a student.

Thank you, LearningRx, for helping our son, not only academically, but for giving him the self-confidence he well deserves. This has been the greatest milestone of our lives. We love all of you so much! It just shows that when you have an army of caring people to help and the right tools, anything is possible! God bless all of you who dedicate your lives to helping others.

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Better Than Normal – A Mom’s Journal

“The center Director said that he had never seen these kinds of results…”

Received shocking news today: the results of Jake’s post-assessment came in from LearningRx, and the results stated that Jake had improved in 20 out of 21 areas. On average he went up 6.1 years per skill!! The center Director said that he had never seen these kinds of results since he has been there. The average gain is about 4.8 years, he told me – and that’s still extraordinary – but to think that Jake did even better than normal! I would never have expected this. When I told Jake he said “This is the biggest accomplishment of my whole life!”

The above is based on a true story of a LearningRx family. For more about the story behind these journal entries, click here.

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Exceeds Expectations – A Mom’s Journal

“Jake was released from all special education services.”

It has been a while since I wrote in here, there are so many exciting things going on I can hardly keep up!

Jake completed his LearningRx training a few weeks ago. The improvements I’ve seen have been so many and so amazing! I had to write this one down though…

This morning I was called in for a meeting with Sandy, at Jake’s school, to talk about his IEP and other services. I thought we were going to talk about next year’s goals, but when I got there, a whole group of folks met me – all of them people who have been working with Jake ever since he was in kindergarten. People who have gone through everything with us.

They sat me down and told me that none of them could believe what was happening to Jake. Each individual therapist showed me their goal and evaluation reports, Jake’s amazing new scores, and how they have never seen such a drastic change in an individual. He had completely exceeded their goals and expectations!

At the end of the meeting, Jake was released from all special education services. Sandy said she would check in on a regular basis to make sure he wouldn’t fall behind.

We certainly received our miracle!

The above is based on a true story of a LearningRx family. For more about the story behind these journal entries, click here.

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Free Evenings – A Mom’s Journal

“Mom, I can do it by myself, I don’t need help tonight.”

It has been two months since we started LearningRx, and the time Jake spends on his homework has been cut in half! Yesterday I sat down with him to help him, like I always do, and he said – get this – he said “Mom, I can do it by myself, I don’t need help tonight”.

What is this?? I have to admit I went back later after he was asleep to check his work, and he did get a few things wrong, but overall he got more correct answers *by himself* than he ever got when I was sitting there prompting him and helping him. This is amazing!

I have to say LearningRx is really helping Jake. And the program isn’t even half over! What am I going to do with my free evenings? :-)

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The above is based on a true story of a LearningRx family. For more about the story behind these journal entries, click here.

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First Day of Training – A Mom’s Journal

“LearningRx is our last try”

We met with Mandy today, she’s going to be Jake’s trainer at LearningRx. I feel comfortable with her, she was reassuring and really seems dedicated to what she does. Also, Jake seemed okay with her, which is great. He usually doesn’t take to strangers. Read the rest of this entry »

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Signing Up – A Mom’s Journal

“You can’t put a price tag on your child’s happiness.”

After lots of consideration, we signed Jake up for LearningRx. The biggest hurdle was the price – but it is one-on-one training, and that is bound to cost something, like a personal trainer at the gym. And I guess it isn’t much more than braces or lots of other medical things some kids need. Read the rest of this entry »

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What the Test Showed – A Mom’s Journal

“John explained that the weak skills are like shorted-out connections in Jacob’s brain.”

Wow. Today was fascinating. We had our consultation and cognitive skills test for Jake at LearningRx. Jacob was a little nervous, but when he met John, and John told him that LearningRx wasn’t like school, he brightened up. Ha ha! And then they went through the test, which didn’t seem too painful – there were a few times Jake got frustrated because he couldn’t get the answers John was looking for. But John just backed off and said “that’s okay” and I could tell that helped Jake feel better.

The consultation was the best part. We got this neat report that showed us Jacob’s cognitive skills. He was low in Read the rest of this entry »

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Brain Training – A Mom’s Journal

“I kept seeing a lot about brain training video games online…”

Mike and I had an appointment this morning with John at LearningRx. It was very encouraging. I was a little hesitant because while we were searching around the internet for stuff about LearningRx, I kept seeing a lot about brain training video games online, and that got me down because I know that Jake needs something more intensive than that. Read the rest of this entry »