The Gap School_BrainWare Press Release

A Better Functioning Brain for Kids with
Learning Disabilities at The Thinking Center
and The GAP School
New Category of Software, Brainware® Safari Enhances 41 Key Cognitive Skills to Increase Children’s Learning Abilities and Retention Rates;
Boosts Self-Confidence and Memory

Robin Ahearn, Neuroscience Learning
Specialist @ The GAP School, helps Dylan
Wachob, 13, figure out how to get to
the next level.

From Back to Front: Daniel Piskoty, Dylan Wachob
and Sebi Jimenez intensely concentrate on passing
their levels on BrainWare Safari.

Sarasota, FL – When it comes to developing children’s brainpower, it’s not a nature-vs.-nurture debate. Instead, experts agree that nature plus nurture is critical to learning. Cognitive development experts show that whatever inborn intelligence nature has given a child that is only the beginning of the story. A child’s learning ability and mental capacity can be dramatically enhanced by nurture, motivation and the right tools.

The Thinking Center, Florida’s Educational & Medical Success Team and Cognitive Training Center and The GAP School, Sarasota’s Therapeutic Intervention Day School, have aligned with the Learning Enhancement Corporation (LEC) of Chicago, Illinois, to offer to the community a one-of-a-kind software program, BrainWare® Safari. It sets the bar for electronic learning tools, developers say, because it develops children’s ability to process information faster and more effectively. “BrainWare Safari is like calisthenics for the brain. The exercises ‘tone’ mental ability just as physical exercise tones muscles,” said Jean-Claude Dutes, PhD, psychology section leader at the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University and a member of the LEC Scientific Advisory Board. “The brain, like muscle, responds to exercises designed to stretch it yet not overwhelm it. While muscles gain strength, agility and endurance as they are conditioned, brains gain concentration, thinking speed, reasoning and mental stamina. BrainWare Safari is ‘toning’ for the brain, and we’ve proven that children’s brains can progressively improve.”

From L to R: Cecile Ollar, Clinical Director of The Thinking Center, David Schick, V.P. of Business Development for LEC, and Robin Ahearn, Neuroscience Learning Specialist at The GAP School.

David Schick, Vice-President of Business Development for LEC, visited The Thinking Center and The GAP School in September to meet the teachers and the students currently participating in a study using BrainWare Safari. “All students at The GAP School participate in cognitive training two days a week. However, we wanted to specifically test the outcomes of BrainWare Safari on a specific population over a specific amount of time,” says Amy F. Weinberger, CEO/Founder of The GAP School and The Thinking Center. The GAP School director, Lori Stephens, strongly believes that “by strengthening cognitive functions such as logic and reasoning, visual processing, impulse controls and memory, a student’s overall functionality of learning increases no matter what the student’s I.Q.”

The staff at The Thinking Center believes that BrainWare Safari can help many children either as a stand-alone product for the home or with scheduled check-ups to make sure progress is moving along steadily. By combining years of proven clinical experience and scientific research on the brain with a fun, online, video-game format, BrainWare Safari makes a promise to parents that their children will achieve remarkable results in the shortest amount of time.

BrainWare™ Safari has been awarded the 2006 Parents' Choice Silver Honor! BrainWare Safari is one of a small percentage among many strong entries selected to receive a Parents’ Choice Award in 2006, according to the Parents’ Choice Foundation. Millions of parents, grandparents and educators rely on Parents’ Choice as a guide to the best products for children.

Learning Enhancement Corporation, makers of BrainWare Safari was also recently awarded The Rookie of the Year Award given by The Heller Reports and Quality Education Data, subsidiaries of Scholastic, Inc. The award honors the most promising start-up venture that is less than two years old and has the greatest potential to be a significant player in the education industry in the coming years.

For more information on purchasing BrainWare® Safari from The Thinking Center, call 941.924.6373.

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