First semester is coming to an end and many parents need to find a solution to help to their children succeed in school. For many families like the Gutierrez’, tutoring, special education programs and a clear homework schedule at home didn’t bring the results they desired for their son Carlos.

Watching a child struggle in school year after year makes parents feel powerless. Ask Bertha Rodriguez. Her son Carlos Gutierrez was put into a full time Special Education classroom due to his language issues and poor academic skills. She knew her son was bright and capable, but these qualities were not reflected in his school work. Although Carlos attends a great school with teachers who care, he was not succeeding.

Many parents left Parent-Teacher Conferences this October feeling similarly. Their child’s frustration is high, the self-esteem is disappearing and a clear solution is elusive. They have tried remedies like tutoring, stricter homework schedules, medication and special education programs without the desired success. Now there is only a half a year left, what can be done?

In order for these remedies to be successful, they require students to have a strong learning foundation. Many struggling students do not have that.

The learning process is like the construction of a building. Tutoring works on the roof. This does not improve the overall structural stability if problems exist in the foundation and walls. Student’s struggles are due to a weakness in one of the processing skills of the learning foundation. Once students strengthen these areas, they can find permanent success.

Nico Dosenbach, Neurology Resident at Washington University in St. Louis, further details that "In typical kids, certain connections in the brain grow stronger over time, while others are pruned away. That process seems to get delayed or derailed in children with [ ]some [ ] developmental disorders."

Brain Training provides a solution that works directly with those connections and helps students repair all levels of their learning. This program works to improve the brain’s most precise timing: millisecond timing. It is involved in many of our daily functions like thinking speed, organization, speech and attention. By refining this timing, students see improvements in activities that use it. This includes: reading, math, focus, organization, memory, keeping up in class, and following directions. It can improve processing speed, reading and math skills by about a year and a half.

Carlos tried brain training and it was the catalyst to reaching success. Within a year, he mainstreamed out of his special education program-only the fourth child in the history of the school to achieve this. Also, he earned the title of Valedictorian at Rio Lindo School and is now a peer tutor for other struggling students.