2. Learning Process
• The learning process is like
the construction of a
building.
• Most schools are currently
implementing academic
and remedial programs
that only affect the roof.
• Struggling students have
weak foundations and wall
structures, so just fixing
the roof is ineffective.
3. What do struggling students need?
• Stabilize the walls and learning foundation by
boosting sensory processing skills like:
• vestibular and proprioception
• perceptual-motor skills
• visual and auditory processing skills
• actual speed of processing (thinking speed + decision-
making speed)
Once students strengthen these areas,
they can achieve permanent success.
4. Who Can Hardy Brain Training
Help?
Hardy Brain Camp Training is designed to help all kinds of
students find success. We have experience helping students who are:
AND Students who have:
ADD/ADHD
High functioning autism
Asperger's syndrome
Dyslexia
Learning disabilities
Feel chronically tired
A little behind in class
At the bottom of the class
In special education programs
Average kids who want to excel
Gifted kids not at potential
5. Why Hardy Brain Training Works
when Tutoring Does Not
• Hardy Brain Training Program improves the
way the brain processes.
• While tutoring helps children memorize the
information presented in class, often the
information is not understood. The Hardy
program trains the brain to learn. This allows
the students to not only memorize the
information, but also apply it.
6. How Hardy Brain Training
Helps the Brain
The brain has a variety of timing systems. This program
works with the brain’s millisecond timing which impacts:
•focus
•attention
•organization
•cognition
•reading
•math
•language processing
•auditory processing
•coordination
•thinking speed
•decision making
speed
8. How Hardy Brain Training Works
1. Child puts on headphones and uses hand and foot sensors.
2. The program sends a tone to the headphones and shows a
symbol on the computer screen.
3. The child attempts to clap her hands at the same moment as the
next tone is heard and seen.
4. As the child claps and taps to the beat, visual feedback on the
screen and auditory feedback in the earphones give exact
information about the accuracy of each response
5. After each clap/tap, the computer screen shows the child the
current score.
Photo with child using the progam-need this from
sherrie
9. How Hardy Brain Training Works:
Auditory Feedback
The program gives immediate auditory feedback through
the headphones indicating the degree of the child’s
accuracy.
There are five different sounds:
• A rewarding sound for high accuracy
• A rubber band twang for medium accuracy
• A buzzer for low accuracy
The sound is held for a few seconds in the child’s working
memory and helps her adjust her accuracy for the next
tone.
10. How Hardy Brain Training Works:
Visual Feedback
The program gives instantaneous visual feedback on the computer screen
indicating the degree of the child’s accuracy.
There are three different colors:
•A green dot appears in the middle of the screen
showing high accuracy.
•A yellow dot appears off to one side of the screen
showing medium accuracy.
•A red dot appears way off to the side of the
screen showing low accuracy.
This information is held for a few second in the child’s working memory and helps
her adjust her accuracy for the next tone.
11. How Hardy Brain Training Works:
Feedback Increases Accuracy
More accurate timing increases:
• Thinking speed
• Decision-making speed
• Brain organization
• Communication
This helps students to pay attention better, learn
more easily and keep up with grade level work.
12. Results
Typical improvement in 4 to 6 weeks:
• One Year or More in:
• Reading
• Math
• Processing Speed
• Noticeably Improved
– Focus and attention
– Organization
– Ability to control behavior and impulsivity
– Coordination
– Communication, auditory and language processing
13. Research
Study worked with boys with ADHD
Trained for 15 sessions with the Metronome Technology
Findings
Statistically significant improvement:
•Attention
•Decrease in aggressive behavior
•Motor control and coordination
•Processing speed
•Language processing
•Reading
•Consistency of responses
Published in :
The American Journal Of Occupational Therapy
ADHD Study
14. Additional Research:
Elementary School Level
Post test scores showed improvements of:
•20% in Letter Naming
•18% in Sight Word Recognition
• 12% in Math Calculation
•10% in Math Fluency
Presented by Taub, McGrew & Keith (2005)
These 2 studies looked at early reading and math skills.
Students took a pre-test, were trained with the Interactive
Metronome technology and took a post test.
15. Additional Research:
High School Level
Presented by Taub, McGrew et al.
High School students trained with the Interactive
Metronome technology for 4 weeks and showed
the following improvements:
Reading Fluency 7%
Broad Reading 7%
Math Calculation 7%
Math Fluency 7%
16. Comments from Parents About
Hardy Brain Training
Debby Mensa: “It is like removing a block or removing an
obstacle. It doesn’t create something that isn’t there. It just
helps them be who they’re supposed to be in an easier way.”
George Culp: “If we only got a fourth of the results, we
would be deliriously happy.”
Diane Solomon: “Here I have this little boy, a year and a
half ago who could barely read at a first grade level, and
now he’s reading at grade level 5…and I’m not worried
about him anymore.”
17. Hardy Brain Training
Contact Info
If your child is struggling in school, we would like
to talk to you about how our program can
make a life changing difference in his/her life.
Please contact us at:
sherrie@hardybraintraining.com
805.389.8144
