Individualized Cognitive Enhancement
Individualized Learning Enhancement Programs
Learning is a cognitive process. Cognition is malleable. Every learner has a unique cognitive profile. Our individualized programs allow partner organizations to receive training in our proprietary methodology, which targets cognition, develops metacognitive awareness and teaches students to learn effectively. Schedule an appointment to explore if COGx can benefit your organization.
Academic Research on Student Learning
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Building Skills to Improve Learning Ability
Our individualized programs target cognition, develop metacognition and teach students to learn effectively. Each program is unique but all programs aim to develop sophisticated learners. We develop learners who understand the architecture of how they learn, possesses a “tool-box” of strategies and techniques to reliably store and retrieve information and knows how to supervise and monitor their own learning.
Our Results: How We Enhance Learning
We measure the impact of our programs through independent clinical pre and post evaluations which we publish
Have a specific learning difficulty in mind? See how we customized our approach and measured the outcome for other students
See how cognitive skills drive learning and how we strengthen these cognitive domains for students
COGx Programs Target:
- Following Multi-Step Directions
- Shifting Between Tasks
- Attention to Detail
- Organizing Thoughts & Ideas
- Comprehension
- Self-Regulation
- Initiation
- Metacognition
- Storing & Recalling Information
- Visualizing Information
- Linking & Associations
- Problem Solving
- Effective Study Skills
- Pattern Recognition
- Processing Speed
- Impulsivity
- Articulating Information
- Math Fluency
- Sustaining Focus
- Creative / Divergent Thinking
- Listening Skills
The COGx Approach: Developing Successful Learners
Teach: the science of learning
COGx programs include a curriculum that teaches students the scientific principles that underpin learning success. This allows students to master evidence-based techniques and strategies specific to learning and memory, in addition to raising their metacognition to become more sophisticated and independent learners.
Train: develop skill and ability
Training involves drill and practice of cognitive exercises that adapt and evolve as skills improve, which is essential to improving one’s underlying skills. Improved ability is a prerequisite to better learning but insufficient in isolation.
Transfer: generalization to real-life
The transfer component of the programs ensures the generalization of cognitive gains to real-life in a way that is individualized and meaningful to the trainee. It is important that coaching only occurs after underlying cognitive skills have been improved
Learning is a Cognitive Processs
While learning is a science that must be taught, learning also depends on the strength of our cognitive skills. Fortunately, these skills are malleable, which means they can be improved. COGx distills the foundational skills required for learning into a framework (depicted in the pyramid). PROCESSING refers to the ability to receive, hold, and make sense of information. This includes Attention, Working Memory, and Processing Speed. These skills work interdependently to integrate information. When one or more of these skills are weak, inefficiency can occur that often undermines a learner’s managing skills. MANAGING refers to the ability to supervise learning & monitor goal-directed behaviors. This includes Executive Functions like cognitive flexibility, impulse control, organization, planning, initiation, time management, and goal setting. It also includes Metacognitive Skills, including a learner’s knowledge of learning principles, their self-awareness, and ability to monitor, control, and assess their own learning. ACQUIRING & APPLYING refers to the ability to store and retrieve information (Long-Term Memory). It is through Long-Term Memory that we accumulate knowledge and apply what we know to learn efficiently, think critically and creatively.
See how COGx approach stands unique in comparison to other programs.
