Hardy Brain Camp Pilot 5 – November 2011
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme
Twenty students in grades 2 through 8 were selected by the Boys and Girls Club staff and teachers at the Rio Real Elementary School clubhouse because of observed difficulties with attention, learning and/or behavior. Students were pre- and post- tested using the Woodcock-Johnson and Stroop tests to measure reading fluency, math and processing speed and were rated by parents, teachers and Boys and Girls Club staff on 11 traits that impact school success.
The students trained for 20 sessions on the Hardy Brain Camp training program as well as had 20 sessions of “ball training”. The “ball training” program combined bouncing a small racket ball to the same metronome beat heard during the Hardy Brain Camp training along with recitation of the times tables.
The results so far show a dramatic increase in math post-test scores compared to math post-test scores from Pilot projects 1, 2 and 4.
In the one month of training (20 sessions) the students gained an average improvement of:
Reading improvement of 9.1 months
Math improvement of 7.7 months
Processing Speed improvement of 13.7 months (1 year and 3.7 months). Processing speed is the combination of thinking speed and decision-making speed.
If your child is struggling in class with paying attention, learning and working at grade level the Hardy programs can help. The Hardy Brain Camp program is not a tutoring program that just works on the teaching the information that your child isn’t learning in class. Hardy Brain Camp develops the communication in the brain that makes students successful, independent learners who can keep up with the information their teacher is teaching because their brain is processing the information quickly and they can absorb what is being taught without extra help. Contact us at 805-389-8144 to learn if we can help your child.
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