LearningRx, a Colorado-based one-on-one brain training center, opened in May 2017 in downtown Owatonna. Pictured from left to right: Darci Stanford, Owatonna LearningRx owner, and Sonja Harris, Owatonna LearningRx director.
On Wednesday April 25th we heard from Darci Stanford. Darci is from Learning RX of Owatonna. Learning RX specializes in cognitive skills. Basically, a work out for your brain. Like your body and muscles, the more active the better. The brain is the same way.
Darci touched on different areas of brain development. Firing, attention, processing speed, long term and short-term memory, visual processing and audio processing. She had us pair up for a couple of simple brain testers and finished up with a couple of simple at home games to test yourself. Sort cards, with a group or by yourself. Sort simply by color, then again by color and number, and again by color number and suit, etc. and try to increase you speed as you go. another fun game is to open the fridge for 20 to 30 seconds trying to take a mental inventory, then write it down, check your memory. To make it harder take your 20 -30 second peek, after 30 min, write down what you saw and then check it with the contents of the fridge.
Thank you so much for speaking to us Darci, and making our brains work too!!