Training the Brain

  • Anita Jaswal
  • India
  • Oct 25, 2014

 

 

I’m happy that you’re my teacher

 

 

I enjoy each lesson you teach

 

 

As my role model you inspire me

 

To dream and to work and to reach.



There are more than a few children who struggle with reading and basic math skills, despite academic supports and after-school tutorings. These children and their teachers periodically fall through one of the largest and most pervasive cracks in the educational system–the slow learner trap. Consequently, these children lose academic motivation, and the education system and the students themselves assume that they are destined to fail in school. However, suitably trained teachers can help prevent this cycle and promote the success of slow-learning students, by recognising that the exhibition of any ‘borderline intellect’ is but another challenge that needs to be overcome – of course with some help. It does not connote ‘failure’ in any manner. Just like other adolescents, who exhibit some or the other ‘not normal’ behaviour, students with borderline intelligence can also develop resilience skills and overcome their ‘shortcoming’. 

Ruchi Sehgal (B.Ed., MBA) has been a teacher and co-ordinator in schools in Gurgaon and overseas. When she moved to the Middle East a few years ago, she underwent the Brain Rx training program and became an Advanced Cognitive Skills Trainer. She has trained children and adults between the ages of 6 and 47 years. She has successfully trained children having ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Difficulties and Asperger Syndrome. She has also worked with borderline Autistic Children who had weak cognitive skills. Ruchi loves to work with children and has a natural ability to bond with them as well as teenagers. While abroad she has witnessed the transformation in scores of children of all ages - from being low performers to becoming high achievers, in not just academics but all areas of their lives. “You cannot even imagine how gratifying it can be to see the joy and happiness in both the child and the parents when they begin to experience the transformation. There is new hope, aspiration and a completely new level of confidence in them. Further, helping differently abled children to learn (in Oman) has changed me completely as a person,” she says. “I think God always knows what you want at heart and hence begins to close all other doors, so that your mind does not take you in the wrong direction,” is how she looks at her ‘career’ choice. Initially, after completing her course, she had been hugely sceptical about how playing games with children was really going to help their academic performance; but withIn a few weeks all her doubts were laid to rest. The children she was training began to show dramatic changes in their capabilities on all the learning skills. The overjoyed parents reconfirmed the positive changes in their children. “The transformations in the children were dramatic. Not one, not two, but every single child that came in for the training had benefitted. This was such a heart-warming experience. I was now completely convinced that I would make this my life mission.” On returning to India after 7 years, she felt that there was a need to introduce clinically proven methods of Brain Training, which can make a huge difference to a child’s learning capabilities. She has opened her centre in Gurgaon under the name, ‘Quick Minds Skills Development Centre’. “This concept of enhancing the learning skills through Brain Training is quite new for parents. They instinctively feel more comfortable with the ‘tried-and-tested’ tuitions route. What parents really need to ask themselves is why their child did not learn at the first go itself. It’s like continuing to treat the symptom of a fever, rather than addressing the root cause that has caused the fever in the first place. But I am happy with the outcome so far, and more parents are approaching us to find out how we can help their children,” she says. The key learning is that all children can be ‘positive and intelligent’, if their leanings and environments are fine-tuned appropriately.


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