Edublox Online Tutor houses a number of cognitive training programs that enable learners to overcome learning obstacles and reach their full potential. Edublox Online Tutor is founded on pedagogical research and 30+ years of experience demonstrating that weak underlying foundational skills account for the majority...
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Within the motor milestones exist two forms of motor development: gross motor development and fine motor development. These two areas of motor development allow an infant to progress from being helpless and completely dependent to being an independently mobile child....
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New research reveals how a week in the dark rewires brain cell networks and changes hearing sensitivity in adult mice long after the optimal window for auditory learning has passed. With further study, cross-modal learning -- the manipulation of one sense to induce change in...
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Too much time glued to a screen could damage your kids' brains, doctors have warned. A new study reveals more than an hour a day on tablets, smartphones and TV can cause speech, thinking and reading problems in children under six....
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To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. If you're always scoring 100%, you're probably not learning anything new. But what's the right amount of failure? Research found that the 'sweet spot' for learning is 85%. ...
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New research has found that people who are illiterate, meaning they never learned to read or write, may have nearly three times greater risk of developing dementia than people who can read and write....
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Why do some people learn music more quickly than others? Intelligence could play a role, according to a new study that investigated the early stages of learning to play piano....
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October was Dyslexia Awareness Month, and many educational providers shared helpful and relevant information on this common problem (including Edublox!). We take a look at a few lesser known facts about dyslexia to add to the wealth of knowledge available on the subject....
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Visual memory is the ability to remember or recall information such as faces, pictures or words that have been viewed in the past. Researchers have subdivided visual memory into three main subsystems: visual sensory memory, visual short-term memory, and visual long-term memory....
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The cerebellum, a brain structure traditionally considered to be involved in motor function, has been implicated in the reading disability and developmental dyslexia. New research shows that the cerebellum is not engaged during reading in typical readers and does not differ in children who have...
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When learning to read, children may mistake certain letters for other similar ones, especially those that can be reversed or appear the same when seen in a mirror. The child may read “dog” as “bog” or look at the written word “was” and read it...
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