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  • LearningRx Announces Executive Leadership Transition

    LearningRx Announces Executive Leadership Transition

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    updated: Jan 25, 2017

    ​LearningRx, the largest one-on-one brain training organization in the world, is pleased to announce the transition of the organization’s founder and CEO Dr. Ken Gibson to the position of Chairman of the Board. Effective immediately the new leadership of LearningRx is as follows:

    ·Kim Hanson, Chief Executive Officer

    I am thrilled by this appointment and am dedicated to seeing my father’s vision fulfilled, which is to help hundreds of thousands of people think faster, learn easier and perform better

    Kim Hanson, CEO LearningRx

    ·Dean Tenpas, Chief Operating Officer

    ·Tanya Mitchell, Chief Recruitment and Research Officer

    ·Dr. Ken Gibson, Chairman of the Board

    Dr. Gibson opened the first LearningRx center in August 2002 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. By 2003, market research and requests from program graduates prompted him to begin franchising in order to serve more clients in more cities. Today, LearningRx has grown to nearly 80 centers in the U.S. and locations in 40 countries around the globe. Their one-on-one brain training programs have helped over 95,000 individuals and families learn easier, think faster, perform better, and improve IQ. Graduates range in age from 4 to 84 — from kids with diagnoses of ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and learning struggles; to career and senior adults who wanted to improve mental skills; to victims of stroke or traumatic brain injury.

    “This is an exciting day for our family-operated business. Today, I turn my focus toward guiding the new executive team as it deepens its efforts to grow our franchise base both in the United States and across the globe while increasing the depth and results driven from our research group, The Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research,” said Dr. Gibson. “This 18-month transition process is now complete and I am excited to support LearningRx and its leadership as its board chairman while enjoying more time with my grandchildren, family, and friends.”

    “We often joke in the family that I was my father’s first one-on-one cognitive brain trainer when I was a teen,” said Kim Hanson. “However that work at an early age was my initial preparation to take the reins as CEO of LearningRx. I am thrilled by this appointment and am dedicated to seeing my father’s vision fulfilled, which is to help hundreds of thousands of people think faster, learn easier and perform better with our unique brain training programs, while also supporting our team as we delve into new and exciting research and franchise markets across the United States and throughout the world.” 

    The one-on-one nature of the training relationship allows LearningRx brain trainers to focus on results by customizing each training session and encouraging their clients to work past their comfort levels. Brain trainers focus on attitude by challenging clients to recognize and pursue their potential, learning to see failure not as something to be avoided at all costs, but as a temporary stepping stone to greater success. LearningRx trainers focus on confidence by encouraging struggling children and adults to engage, embrace challenges, recognize improvements, and celebrate gains.

     “My father, Dr. Ken Gibson, is a true visionary who spent a majority of his career helping those with cognitive learning and reading struggles better themselves,” said Tanya Mitchell. “The training methods we use are built on over 35 years of research, and we have cognitive test results on tens of thousands of clients. I am energized by our company’s new chapter and I am personally dedicated to my role which is growing our base of franchises in the U.S. and abroad while also supporting the groundbreaking research at The Gibson Research Institute, where we are currently conducting many studies on LearningRx cognitive training programs with several industry thought leaders.”

    In 2016, LearningRx reached a milestone by opening centers in three more countries, while also launching collaborative research studies through The Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research, focusing on ADHD, Traumatic Brain Injury and Mild Cognitive Impairment/Early Alzheimer’s with a timeline of releasing its results to the public beginning in the spring of 2017.

    “Our team’s work is critical to improving the lives of those struggling with learning and reading,” said Dean Tenpas. “From my perspective, our programs give clients new opportunities in learning and in life; advancements and experiences that they may have never achieved because a weak cognitive skill was holding them back. I am honored to lead the operations of such an important company and am dedicated to ensuring that our extended team has the tools it needs to grow our organization each and every year in both revenue and positive impact on people’s lives.”

    About LearningRx:

    LearningRx, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the largest one-on-one brain training organization in the world. With close to 80 Centers in the U.S., and locations in 40 countries around the globe, LearningRx has helped more than 95,000 individuals and families sharpen their cognitive skills to help them think faster, learn easier, and perform better. The company’s on-site programs partner every client with a personal brain trainer to keep clients engaged, accountable, and on task — a key advantage over online-only brain exercises. Their pioneering methods have been used in clinical settings for 35 years and have been verified as beneficial in peer-reviewed research papers and journals. To learn more about LearningRx research results, programs, and their 9.6 out of 10 client satisfaction rating visit http://www.learningrx.com/.

    Source: LearningRx

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  • July Is National Make a Difference in a Child Month LearningRx Brain Training— Local Girl Named Student of the Year Finalist in LearningRx National Contest for Exceptional Brain Training Results

    July Is National Make a Difference in a Child Month LearningRx Brain Training— Local Girl Named Student of the Year Finalist in LearningRx National Contest for Exceptional Brain Training Results

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    LearningRx Student Of The Year Finalist changed her attitude about school and reading after her brain training program at LearningRx’s Chattanooga center.

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    Jul 13, 2016

    Chattanooga, Tennessee student Lauren Sims has been named one of five finalists in LearningRx’s national competition celebrating real life changing stories across the country. Lauren’s parents enrolled her in personal brain training after they noticed she was having trouble sounding out words and reading out loud, as well as struggling with math, confidence and memory-related tasks.

    Before LearningRx, Lauren avoided reading. Now her parents say she reads voluntarily! They also witnessed her confidence soar, her math and memory skills improve, and her nightly struggles with homework practically disappear. For the summer break, Lauren set a goal to read more than 26 books. “Before LearningRx, I didn’t want to go to college,” she says, “but now I think that could be another challenge that I could do for myself and that I could overcome.” Lauren’s mother says Lauren has talked about becoming a surgeon.

    “Before LearningRx, I didn’t want to go to college,” she says, “but now I think that could be another challenge that I could do for myself and that I could overcome.”

    Lauren Sims, LearningRx Student Of The Year Finalist

    Lauren’s improvements mirror those of a recent study in which students made statistically significant gains on tests of Word Attack, Spelling Sounds, Sound Awareness and Passage Comprehension after completing LearningRx personal brain training. A compilation of recent research studies on LearningRx programs can be found in the 48-page 2016 edition of “Client Outcomes and Research Results,” which can be downloaded here: http://www.learningrx.com/our-programs/learningrx-results/. The winner of the contest will be announced at the LearningRx national conference and on www.LearningRx.com on August 1.

    LearningRx, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the largest one-on-one brain training organization in the world. With 80 Centers in the U.S., and locations in 40 countries around the globe, LearningRx has helped more than 95,000 individuals and families sharpen their cognitive skills to help them think faster, learn easier, and perform better. Their on-site programs partner every client with a personal brain trainer to keep clients engaged, accountable, and on-task — a key advantage over online-only brain exercises. Their pioneering methods have been used in clinical settings for 35 years and have been verified as beneficial in peer-reviewed research papers and journals. To learn more about LearningRx research results, programs, and their 9.6 out of 10 client satisfaction rating visit http://www.learningrx.com/.    

    Source: LearningRx

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  • LearningRx – Brain Training -Reading Study Showed Brain Training Improved State Reading Achievement Tests

    LearningRx – Brain Training -Reading Study Showed Brain Training Improved State Reading Achievement Tests

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    Training weak cognitive skills with a sound to code reading program improved state achievement scores for LearningRx ReadRx students in new study.

    – A study of LearningRx’s (www.LearningRx.com) ReadRx personal brain training program results found that after training, the group of students made statistically significant gains on tests of World Attack, Spelling Sounds, Sound Awareness and Passage Comprehension. Additionally, 91% of students who completed the ReadRx program showed improvement on state reading achievement tests. The results have been published in LearningRx’s 48-page 2016 edition of “Client Outcomes and Research Results,” which can be downloaded here: http://www.learningrx.com/our-programs/learningrx-results/.

    For the group of 65 students in the study, the mean gain across reading achievement tests was 3.6 years. Prior to training, the mean percentile for the group was 33. After training, the group jumped to the 47th percentile in reading. The study, “Achievement Outcomes for LearningRx Students: Math and Reading Achievement Before and After Cognitive Training” is currently in preparation for publication but can be downloaded here:

    . “With 95,000 students having graduated our brain training programs, we have plenty of data for independent researchers to study our unique cognitive training methodology and results.

    Tanya Mitchell, Vice President of Research & Development

    http://downloads.learningrx.com/Achievement-Results-LearningRx.pdf

    LearningRx programs are based on 35 years of research and input from a team of psychologists, educators, speech and language pathologists, and occupational therapists,” says Tanya Mitchell, Vice President of Research & Development for LearningRx. “With 95,000 students having graduated our brain training programs, we have plenty of data for independent researchers to study our unique cognitive training methodology and results. We not only encourage independent research, but we also actively seek it out. We are eager to share our results, and independent research helps validate our work among the scientific community in an industry that is still relatively young, and therefore under constant scrutiny. It’s part of the reason we created the Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research (www.gibsonresearchinstitute.org).”

    LearningRx (www.LearningRx.com) has a network of 78 centers across the United States and locations in over 35 countries (www.BrainRx.com). The company’s average customer rating is 4.9 out of 5. In addition, when asked how likely customers were to recommend the company to someone, 19,000 of 21,836 customers rated LearningRx a 9 or 10. LearningRx specializes in identifying and correcting the underlying cognitive skill deficiencies that keep people from achieving their full potential in school, business, or life. Using a comprehensive skills assessment test and intensive one-on-one training, LearningRx  programs enhance weak cognitive skills such as attention, memory, auditory & visual processing, processing speed, and problem solving. The company has garnered countless awards, including Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500 lists multiple years in a row.

    Source: LearningRx

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