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Spring / Summer 2015

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ADHD Center | Revolutionary Brain Training
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Revolutionary Brain Training

In our clinic, we  use a computerized program, called  ACTIVATE. Activate Program is based on more than twenty years of research. It was created by Bruce Wexler, MD, Jinxia Dong, Ph.D. and Yale University neuroscientists and funded by the National Institute of Health at Yale Medical School.

https://www.c8sciences.com/about/neuroscience/

ACTIVATE dramatically improves working memory, self-control, sustained attention, cognitive flexibility, and other executive function skills. ACTIVATE provides early cognitive intervention designed to help identify the causes of student cognition problems.

ACTIVATE develops and strengtens brain’s eight cognitive capacities:

  1. Sustained Attention
  2. Response Inhibition
  3. Speed of Information Processing
  4. Cognitive flexibility and Control
  5. Multiple Simultaneous Attention
  6. Working Memory
  7. Category Formation
  8. Pattern Recognition and Inductive Thinking

 

Most video games for kids actually weaken their ability to sustain attention – while our games strengthen the child’s own ability to sustain their attention. Although we start out with dynamic short games and lots of visual and auditory feedback – as the student progresses, those game elements fade away, until eventually the child can focus on long work sessions with very little additional stimulation.

 

Students perform a wide range of cognitive tasks – like memorizing sequences, completing patterns, task-switching, and putting things in categories. Our unique program not only recognizes when the child makes an error, it figures out why and coaches the children in real time how to improve their thinking strategies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpfoT7q9Row

WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT ACTIVATE:

  • The computerized training task stands out for being easily the most sophisticated ever attempted with ADHD (or any other cognitive disorder), due in particular to its ability to titrate difficulty to the individual’s performance, thus maximizing its learning benefit. If any computerized program could work, this one should. Therefore, a strength of this study is the extremely impressive computer training module. Another strength is the idea of incorporating physical training as part of the therapy; there are many reasons to think this is a good idea, yet it has scarcely been tried. Overall, if one is going to do an in-school intervention to train children with ADHD, this one is imaginitive, well justified, and novel.

    - Independent NIH Reviewer

  • It was like they designed the exact program I’d been dreaming about. By the beginning of the 2012 school year, language proficiency has risen to 52% and math to 76%, bringing PS316 from the bottom third to the top third in school performance in New York City Public Schools.

    - Olga Maluf, Principal

In comparison to the control group, children who participated in C8Kids had greater improvements in working memory.

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Student achievement on NWEA standardized assessments of reading and math were also measured before and after the program.  58% of C8Kids increased their reading scores more than 10 points (an equivalent of about one year of growth), while only 33% of the control group raised reading scores more than 10 points.  Similarly, students in C8Kids outperformed their peers on the NWEA math assessment.

 

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