http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/28/science-or-sciencey-part1/

not sure if this has been discussed here, but I know there are posts from time to time on brain training software. Our psych for ds11 did not recommend this route too much so we never went there (for processing speed). He said about the same as this article: the child/learner would (maybe) learn to do a specific task faster but typically that is not transferable to most other tasks.

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