Mini-Guide: Saber’s Edge
Saber’s Edge is a mix of role-playing, card battling, and match-3 game styles. The player unlocks and collects cards in order to gather a pirate crew and enhance their equipment. […]
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The ADHD Parent Palooza
Want to be part of changing the way the world looks at parenting kids with ADHD?
Our friends and colleagues, Linda Roggli of ADDiva.net and Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster […]
Apps and Games That Can Improve Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
There are many strategies that can be used to improve executive functions in the classroom. By definition, many kids with ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Anxiety/Depression experience problems […]
How Do Executive Functions Impact Academic Performance?
How do thinking skills impact academic performance?
Executive functions, or thinking skills, are essentially self-management skills that rely upon the prefrontal cortex and connections to other parts of our brain […]
LearningWorks Live Organizational Skills Workshop
Registration is now open for the next LearningWorks Live Organizational Skills Workshop!
Children will enter a group video conference with our Gamer Guides, where they will learn about Organization, play […]
Four Simple Strategies to Teach Children How to Learn
Traditional American schools are well suited and effective for teaching facts and conveying static knowledge. But how well do most schools teach application of knowledge to new situations, how effective […]
A Teenager’s Guide to Understanding Slow Processing Speed
Do you take forever to do your homework? Are you always the last one to finish tests when you have them in class? Many teenagers and college students have the […]
Can Technology Improve Mental Health?
The field of psychology spent most of the twentieth century focused on the ills of humankind, examining issues such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Psychologists were trained to look for […]
Mini-Guide: Crazy Kings
Crazy Kings is a tower defense game with elements of card-battling mixed in. This means the player collects, levels up, and equips cards before heading into battle. Once in the battle, […]
Is virtual reality (VR) a better way to teach social skills?
Improving social skills is a difficult task for educators and clinicians. It’s difficult to transfer the trained skills to the real world. Traditional methods of teaching social skills involve modeling, […]
