Toca Lab: Elements is a science education app from Toca Boca. As with all of Toca’s “digital toys,” Toca Lab: Elements offers kids a traditional learning-through-play experience in a mobile […]

Your child could spend all day in front of their favorite video game but when it’s time to sit down and do homework, that ability to sit still and pay […]

Processing Speed describes how efficiently a child can perform a cognitive task. It accounts for the speed at which the child takes in information, processes it, and then acts on […]

Summer vacation may be weeks away, but most kids are already there in their minds. As soon as school lets out for the day, they want to shed their books […]

Many parents and teachers who see capable kids falling behind in their schoolwork find that slow processing speed is the underlying cause. In the recent past, many educators and parents […]

Parenting children with slow processing speed can be an agonizing experience. Waiting for them to get ready for school, wondering how it could take so long just to pick up […]

Slow processing speed and executive function disorders are two of the most common reasons children have trouble in school. While processing speed and executive functioning are two distinct neuropsychological constructs, […]

Raising kids in the digital age is a tough job. It can be difficult to parent around technology and social media. You don’t want screens to dominate your child’s life, […]

There’s a reason empathy is a buzzword these days, and it isn’t just because the world needs more kindness and understanding. For critics of the memorize-and-regurgitate style of learning, empathy […]

Parenting a child has never been a simple task. But in a society so dominated by technology, with the outside world so easily brought into our homes by the Internet […]