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Welcome back to Twin Cities Live. Okay parents you got to listen
up to this.
Chris I know you will be able to relate to this. Imagine that your
child got forty detentions in one school year. That would have to
be so difficult.
I can relate, i can relate but he hasn't forty yet.
No, he hasn't forty but you can relate to being a parent.
But he was able to actually go on and earn an academic letter just
months later. That actually happened to a Woodbury teen and his
family is thanking LearningRx, a program that focuses on brain
training with intense mental exercises.
Twin Cities Live producer Kelly Hanson shows us how the
program isn't just helping students with better grades but also
helping them focus in the classroom.
When Killian Wilson was six years old, he was diagnosed with
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. And for him
that means school, no matter the subject, wasn't easy.
It starts with a teacher intervention, meeting with counselors in
school, trying to modify behavior, these went on for years.
I would just always forget to turn in homework and/or forget to
do it or not know or learn something and not know what we did
so I'd do it wrong on the homework.
He is not focused and he is out of his seat and you know, teachers
don't know what to do with it so they just provide him a form and
give him detention but none of that is working.
You need a red and a blue...
This one...
By the time Killian started high school, his mom knew they had to
try something different.
I was kind of like, at some point I hopefully it just kicks in and I
do well but then I started realizing that's not going to be possible
and I got to do something about it.
Yellow...yeah
Then Killian found brain training at LearningRx.
Were requiring what's called sustained attention where we're
exercising the brain creating more synapses stronger connections
and one of the benefits it can do is that it sticks.
LearningRx isn't a tutoring center. Instead here you work on the
root cause of the learning problem.
You get commendations in the school where because they
struggle with attention they are considered differently classed so
they are not as distracted. Or they can take their tests where it's
quieter. Those things help them get through school but it never
addresses the underlying issues. And at some point in their life,
whether high school, college or pursue their career they'd be
able to focus and stay on the task.
Killian met with a trainer here at the Woodbury Center for
twenty-four weeks and with intense mental exercises his brain
got stronger.
Now it's more like I don't have to push myself as hard as I did and
I don't have to set aside extra time to take breaks and focus extra
hard.
At the beginning of his freshman year, he was earning C's and D's.
At the end of 9th grade, thanks to LearningRx he came home
with an academic letter.
He has continued to be in the academic honor roll and has done
very well.
Now as a junior, he is thinking about the future playing lacrosse
and thanks to a high ACT score, he's looking forward to studying architecture.
He went through this one and really did an amazing so much so
that he really doesn't have to take again, he can get into the
schools that he's looking at.
I think they are so inspiring over there and you can find a center
near you on our website. We posted more information at
twincitieslive.com and thanks to LearningRx for sponsoring Twin
Cities Live.
"Tutoring Woodbury"
http://www.LearningRx.com/Woodbury/