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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

The Key to Improved Attention and Memory for Optimal Learning

Did you know that visualization can be the key to unlocking memory abilities, attentional skills, and enjoyment for learning? Surprisingly, the use of mental imagery for learning is not a new conce...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

Excellent Reading Comprehension: Developing the 3 Core Cognitive Skills

Every teacher would love to ignite a love for reading and nurture voracious readers, but simply teaching your students how to read and asking them to read each night isn't necessarily going to help...

Fine Motor & Dysgraphia Challenges: Support, Strategies, & Freebie

Does your child or student have difficulty holding a pencil, forming letters, or staying within the lines while drawing? These common struggles may indicate underdeveloped visual-motor (VM) or fine...

Multisensory Angles PowerPoint Lesson that Makes Geometry Come Alive

Many students find geometry abstract and disconnected from real life, especially when first learning about angles. When math is taught through memorization alone, children often struggle to retain ...

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...

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...

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 ...

What are the Best Strategies For Reading Comprehension?

Helping your students to develop excellent reading comprehension skills can help them to succeed in academics as well as life. However, simply learning to decode words is not enough.    How Can Re...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Improving Spelling for Students with Dyslexia

Not all students require the same remedial process even though they struggle with the same academic difficulties. Diverse combinations of cognitive processing weaknesses and deficits can unite to c...

How to Address Spelling Needs and Nurture Student Success

This week, I am thrilled to share a case study of a fabulous teacher named Kim from Cape Town in South Africa. Kim teaches a 3rd-grade class at a special needs school. The children range from 10...

Memory Strategy: Hooking's a Fun and Memorable Way to Learn

As an educational therapist and learning specialist, hooking is one of the most valuable memory strategies that I teach my students. In fact, tedious study sessions can be transformed into a memora...

Why Multisensory Meditations Promise Student Success

Over the last 20-plus years as a learning specialist and educational therapist, changing demands have inspired new directions in my continuing education and practice at large. During this period o...

How Can Books on Tape Improve Reading Speed and Reading Comprehension?

Listening to books on tape or to someone reading aloud can improve reading comprehension because the brain does not have to work on decoding the words but can simply focus on the content. But mere...

Cognitive Remedial Therapy for Student with Learning Disabilities: What is it?

The brain is much like the body. If we exercise areas that are weak or underdeveloped, we can overcome significant difficulties. In fact, we may even be able to turn a weakness into a strength.  J...

Free Text to Speech Software Can Help Students Edit Papers

🗣️ Why Every Student Should Use Text-to-Speech for Writing and Editing Text-to-speech (TTS) software is no longer just an accessibility feature — it’s a powerful learning and editing tool for st...

Educational Therapy Courses for Coaches and Educators

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

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...

Episode 2: How Can We Exercise and Improve Visualization Skills? The Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast

In this episode, Erica and Darius explore practical ways to exercise and expand visualization skills so learners can use mental imagery as a powerful tool for memory, comprehension, and focus. Eric...

Episode 1: What is Visualization and How Can it Help Struggling Learners? The Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast

In this episode, Erica and Darius explore visualization as the mind’s ability to create mental images. This essential learning skill supports reading comprehension, working memory, focus, and long-...

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...