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I'd be skeptical too, since there's so much in the way of possible snake oil, or unproven wacky therapies, out there these days.

But I do have kiddos with low processing speed, among other things, and I'd love it if that could be fixed. However, my sense is that it's something that possibly could be improved temporarily but not necessarily permanently (a la the research on listening therapy, etc. that showed gains going away over time).

Do tell more though - every so often, I think, there must be a way around this processing speed thing - but for my kids it's really linked to motor issues. Their motor output is slow (coding subtest), really slow - for one of them, the disparity between WM and the coding subtest scores is in the area of 90 percentiles (four standard deviations??).

I wish I'd stop trying to "cure" my fidgety kiddo; query: why is it that he has such slow motor output when he needs to move constantly in order to think? LOL, but seriously there must be something to that...like a switch needs to be re-routed in his brain.