Cognitive training for Learning Differences
One of my boys, currently 14 and homeschooled, is samrt as a whip, but the way he learns is kinda quirky. He doesn't process things sequentially. His whole file cabinet of thoughts is filed in a disordered 3-D way rather than in a straight little line that rivals a queue of obsessive compulsive Type A people waiting to get into the latest Lord of the Rings Movie. Hmm. I sense your confusion. Okay, go look under your kid's bed. That's what it looks like in Erik's brain. He knows every nanomolecule in every object under that bed, but he can't quite figure out where it is--at least not right away. So I was surfing the web in my never ending search for an answer to his struggles when I stumbled upon a couple of cognitive training programs: One is Brain Builder and the other is called PACE. I think I'm going to give it a whirl. What am I thinking? I need the training worse than he does! Who, in their right mind, requires a Palm Pilot to run their life, puts her daily to do list on an index card for backup and even enters things like "bathe kids and self," "open mail," "Write in blog"? So sad. And I've been that way since I was 18, so I can't blame senility. Saints preserve us and Holy mother of God I hate to think what'll happen when that sets in. I think God got bored one day and started experimenting with different materials in his quest ot hone his material engineering skills, and used Teflon when he made my brain. It's a miracle I remember to breathe. So, Erik, my apologies for passing along that defective genetic material. Palm Pilot buddies to the end! Let's just hope we can remember to look in it from time to time. So...anyone know anything about these two programs or any others? I'm kinda desperate here. If I don't act soon I may forget there's a problem with our brains to begin with.