GEIST helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Working Memory: Recalling and retaining information in our minds while working.

Many of the games that are available to play on GEIST deal with improving the user’s working memory. There are games where you are matching tiles once they are flipped over, remembering the order of items on a shelf, or remembering the order of colored lights on a grid. For players who struggle with working memory, this app can be a good way to practice this skill a little at a time. Each day you can complete your workout which will include a memory game. But then you can go on to play additional memory games if you would like to get some extra practice. 

Focus: Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks. 

There are games on GEIST that are specifically designed to improve your focus and concentration. For example, the game Signs in the Sky presents a bunch of differently colored shapes and asks the user to find the shape that doesn’t have a match on the screen. The user needs to focus and eliminate the matched shapes quickly while searching for the odd shape and clicking on it. As the levels progress, more shapes with similar patterns are added, making it harder to focus. 

The guided meditation and sleep portions of the app can also help the user with focus. Each talk is short, helping users who struggle with focus practice this skill in a short and sustained manner.