BrainWare is the most comprehensive and affordable program available designed to develop an individual's ability to take in, process, understand, and apply information. For the first time, scientifically based and clinically grounded methodologies have been combined with multimedia graphics, characters and sound into an online interactive software program.
BrainWare's fun and challenging video game format provides motivation and feedback to drive the devleopment of mental capacity. The skills developed by BrainWare are called cognitive skills -- the basic mental skills that enable us to learn.
BrainWare incorporates models of brain function that originate in work published in 1949 by Dr. Donald Hebb of McGill University. Dr. Hebb's book The Organization of Behavior describes the hierarchical nature of human learning, starting with the simplest of neurological functions. Skills build in a learning pyramid, in which basic skills enable higher-order skills to develop. If any fundamental skills are missing or deficient, more advanced skills cannot develop.
Exercises that incorporate the current scientific understanding of brain function to improve basic cognitive skills have been used by clinicians in one-on-one therapies for decades. Over time, various clinicians gradually assembled and integrated different regimens of exercises that provide measurable improvement in cognitive skills. BrainWare incorporates the methodologies developed by practicing clinicians, including auditory and vision development specialists, speech and hearing pathologists, and clinical psychologists, to deliver specific results over a specific period of time.
LEC's first BrainWare product is called BrainWare Safari and is recommended for children ages 6 to 12. Additional BrainWare products are planned in the future.
