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Visual Processing Games: 10 Fun Games to Strengthen Visual Skills

Not all learning happens with words. Many academic and everyday tasks depend on strong visual processing skills, yet these abilities are often overlooked until they begin to interfere with...

How to Help Students with Visual Processing Problems

Many students who struggle academically are often misunderstood. They may be bright, articulate, and motivated, yet reading feels slow, written work looks disorganized, and visually demanding task...

How to Improve Visual Processing: Skills, Strategies & Activities

Visual processing affects far more than reading. It can influence how easily someone copies from the board, finds information on a busy page, remembers what they have seen, interprets maps and gra...

Slow Processing Speed - 5 Ways it Impacts Learning

Dear Friends: Over the next two weeks, I will be writing about processing speed. This week, I will focus on how processing speed can be evaluated, the causes of a slow processing speed, and the 5 w...

7 Powerful Strategies To Improve Processing Speed

Dear Friends: This is my second post on processing speed. Last week, I addressed the definition, causes, assessment options, and revealed 5 ways that a slow processing speed can impact learning. ...

How Can Auditory Processing Be Improved with Fun Games?

Many students who struggle with auditory processing weaknesses can be irritating to teachers and family members because they just don't seem to pay attention or follow verbal directions.  In additi...

Understanding Executive Functions and Processing Speed: A Deep Dive into Cognitive Dynamics

Processing speed and executive functions play pivotal roles in learning, productivity, and overall cognitive performance. For many students, processing speed can be a major factor in academic succe...

Fun, Free Activities That Strengthen Language Processing During School Breaks

The old saying - If you don't use it, you lose it - often describes the cognitive setbacks that many students experience over the summer months. Exercising children's brains with engaging and fun a...

Sensing to Processing: Helping Students Shift from Passive to Active Learning

In every classroom, students are surrounded by a constant flow of sensory input. They hear the teacher’s voice. They see the text on the board. They speak when called on. But here’s the truth: just...

7 Mindful Methods Boost Sensory Processing for Improved Learning

An awesome sunset will likely capture one’s attention for a minute or two, but much of our sensory processing information remains overlooked. Although we are subconsciously processing our surroundi...

Using Visual Tracking To Improve Reading

Many students have difficulties reading text from left to right and from line to line. Although some outgrow this difficulty, others need extra help to develop this skill.        What Exactly ...

12 Free Ways to Strengthen Visual Tracking

Tracking is the ability to move one's eyes smoothly across the page from one word to another, as well as from one line of text to another.  For some learners, however, this is a challenging task.  ...

How to Quickly Improve Visual Tracking for Struggling Readers

Come learn how readers can improve comprehension with tracking skills with apps, visual processing exercises, and activiites.

Visual Perceptual Dyslexia: Symptoms, Causes, and Effective Strategies for Support

This blog explores visual perceptual dyslexia, its symptoms, causes, and strategies for support. It also highlights Dr. Warren's Visual Perceptual Resource Library, offering over 500 activities to ...

10 Free Eye Tracking Exercises and Visual Tracking Activities for Reading

Reading requires the eyes to move smoothly across a line of text and then shift accurately to the next line. For some learners, this happens automatically. Others may lose their place, skip wo...

Remediating Reading Reversals, Tracking Difficulties and Visual Discrimination Weaknesses

Remediating reading reversals can be a difficult task. Not anymore! Good Sensory Learning now has many multi-sensory, digital workbooks that can make the process both simple and enjoyable.    The ...

Boost Reading Comprehension By Exercising Visualization Skills

One of the most common questions I get asked is how to help students improve reading comprehension. There are many books on this topic, and the vast majority of strategies involve a structured and ...

Why Visualization Skills Offer Key Benefits for Students

Explore Dr. Erica Warren's blog on enhancing learning through visualization. Learn how to assess and develop students' visualization skills to improve memory, comprehension, and motivation. A valua...

Audiobooks Can Improve Word Recognition, Pronunciation and Visualization Abilities

Did you know that audiobooks or books on tape can improve word recognition, the proper pronunciation of words, and also develop visualization abilities?  Passive learners may not obtain these perk...

Free Visualization Game: For Improved Reading, Writing, and Memory

I recently finished a publication, Mindful Visualization for Learning,  that reviews the history and research behind visualization and then provides teachers with everything they need to assess and...

Different Ways of Learning: 12 Ways We Process Information

Have you ever wondered why one person remembers every detail of a conversation while another needs to see the information, talk it through, move while learning, or connect it to a real experience ...

The Best Reading Remediation: Tackling the 3 Core Cognitive Skills

There are a plethora of reading programs that walk students through the rules, patterns, and irregularities of our complicated English language; however, many students need to begin their remedial...

Do Learning Styles Exist?

I think everyone will agree that no two people have the same strengths and weaknesses. But because we cannot observe each student’s brain behavior, it’s easy to blindly assume that what helps us l...

Exposing Teachers to the 12 Ways of Learning

Many teachers are aware of the four basic learning styles: visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. But did you know that there are eight more common ways that the brain processes information? A...

The Best Way to Improve Reading Comprehension

When students love to read, they have an enormous advantage over those who don't. Research shows that reading exercises attention, exposes readers to new ideas, and improves knowledge, vocabulary, ...

How to Develop Reading Stamina for Struggling Readers

Discover key strategies to boost reading stamina in children with our blog post. Ideal for teachers and parents looking to make reading enjoyable for young learners.

Key Reason Dyslexics and Struggling Readers Hate to Read

Imagine going to the movies with your eyes closed. How much of the movie would you understand? How much of the storyline would you recall? Not much, and it probably wouldn't be very engaging. In f...

How to Improve Working Memory in Struggling Students

Did you know that a strong working memory is one of the best indicators of academic success?  In contrast, those who struggle with a weak working memory often find learning, accessing prior knowled...

What Can You Do When Your Child Hates to Read?

For many young learners, reading is a tantalizing adventure into the imagination of an author and a fun way to increase knowledge. However, for other learners, reading can be a tedious chore that c...

Games that Benefit the Brain

Most kids love to play card and board games, but did you know that many offer benefits far beyond the obvious social gains? Many games are actually good for cognition and can exercise the...

Dyslexia Help: Reversing Reversals Beginners - New Publication and Free Samples

I'm so excited to tell you about my Reversing Reversals Beginners publication. This digital workbook is the fourth publication in my popular Reversing Reversals Series.  Why Did I Create Reversing...

Letter Reversals - 11 Free Fun Activities for Dyslexics

Almost all elementary students experience some letter, number, and word reversals, but for some, it is a pervasive problem.  Many of these students have symptoms of dyslexia or visual processin...

Announcing Dr. Erica Warren's New Suite of Remedial Assessments: Dr. Erica Warren Assessments!

The Importance of Targeted Assessments in Education and Practice In the realms of education and professional development, understanding the unique needs and capabilities of individuals is paramount...

Quick Individualized Solutions for Struggling and Dyslexic Readers

There is no single reading program or method that will address all the needs of struggling readers, because each learner has his or her own unique strengths and weaknesses. In fact, there are many ...

Teaching Mental Math to All Elementary Students

Many people think that mental math is too difficult for elementary learners, but, in fact, youngsters have wonderful imaginations and capacities to visualize that can be utilized while doing mathem...

Multiples and LCM Made Easy with Millipedes

Over the years, I have noticed that many students find it difficult to remember how to identify multiples and how to determine the least common multiple (LCM). The terms themselves often do not pr...

More Games that Benefit the Brain: A Review

If you have been reading my blogs, you know I'm a big fan of bringing the fun factor into learning. In fact, did you know that many games can improve cognitive functioning?   Some Games Exercise an...

Free Following Directions Sample Activities

Strengthening Direction-Following Skills in Young Learners Many young learners struggle with the complexities of linguistic cues, and following both written and oral directions can be a real cha...

How Can I Improve My Reading Speed and Comprehension?

There are all sorts of companies that are trying to sell “speed reading” programs and a “quick comprehension fix.” I often evaluate these products, and I continually find them too good to be true. ...

Monster Multiplication: A New Multisensory and Mindful Approach to Long Multiplication

Long multiplication is often one of the most challenging math skills for elementary and middle school students to learn and remember. Many children struggle to keep steps in order, line up number...

Educational Therapy Courses for Coaches and Educators

Come learn about Dr. Warren's educational therapy courses for coaches and teachers.

Dysphonetic and Dyseidetic Dyslexia - What is the Difference?

Meeting the needs of a student with dyslexia can be a complicated process because most require an individualized approach. Although two students might struggle with common symptoms such as word rev...

Three Activities that Strengthen Tracking Abilities for Improved Reading

Some students struggle with tracking words across a page. They may lose their place or have trouble scanning from one line of text to the next. Here are three strategies that you can do at home to ...

Building Core Skills: Quantitative and Spatial Puzzles Free Samples

Come learn more about Dr. Warren's Quantitative and Spatial Puzzles and her other fun visual processing exercises.  Come learn more!

Reaching All Types of Learners With Multisensory Teaching

One of the most common issues teachers struggle with is how to accommodate the multiple intelligences and diverse learning needs of their students. With as many as 12 different ways of processin...

Episode 41: Exploring Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic Ways of Processing

In this episode of The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast, Erica and Darius guide us through the dynamic world of visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic processing. As we navigate our everyday live...

Episode 18: Related Areas to Visual Processing - The Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast

In this episode, Erica and Darius explore how vision problems can impact learning—and why checking vision and hearing should come before assuming a learning disability. They break down common visio...

Episode 17: What is Visual Processing on the Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast

In this episode, Erica and Darius break down visual processing—what it is, why it matters, and how it impacts reading, writing, math, and everyday learning. Erica explains that visual processing is...