A COGNITIVE TRAINING SESSION

NeuroMite Program Delivery

The program delivery incorporates intense, repeated experience-based learning as well as one-on-one feedback to ensure that behaviour change is reinforced. Specifically, cognitive and non-cognitive abilities are trained and developed through CogniPlus with explicit coaching strategies and techniques.

The training is adaptive and pitched at the ability level of the student. This means that each student will be trained at the right level of intensity and complexity. A number of other activities are built into the program to complement the computerised training and these activities are designed to engage students as well as reinforce ability development.

       Cognitive Abilities           Non-Cognitive Abilities
CogniPlus Computer Training                     

Directly trained through the specific training module on the CogniPlus Program.

   Developed implicitly through spending adequate time on the CogniPlus training modules.                                 
Explicit Coaching Strategies  

Training-related ability strategies are explicitly taught to students by the Coach. They are designed to be implemented by the student to help them perform well at the training itself, as well as in other tasks outside of training (e.g. visually scanning your environment).

   Self-management strategies are explicitly taught to students by the Coach. They can be implemented during the training but are not specific to the training program itself (e.g. deep breathing).
Implicit Coaching Techniques   Coaching techniques foster and reinforce the use of ability-specific strategies.  

Coaching techniques are used in interactions with students to develop their non-cognitive abilities (e.g. praising student’s efforts to improve their confidence).

 

A Typical Training Session

Cognitive Training Image 11. Instruction phase
Each training program starts with an instruction phase. Simply formulated instructions inform the students of what they need to do. Students spend as much time reading them as they wish, which helps to prevent stress. To make things easier for the student, all CogniPlus training modules are designed along the same lines. In addition,they make use of everyday knowledge; for example,based on traffic-light usage the start button is always green. Guided by the careful use of size and color on the screen, the student absorbs information selectively in accordance with the importance of the various elements.

 

2. Practice phase
The instruction phase is always followed by a practice phase. If the student’s responses indicate that they have not yet understood the task, the system will automatically repeat the instructions. The training phase does not start until the student has successfully completed the practice phase.

3. Training phase
Teachers can use the CogniPlus modules to carry out training at any level of difficulty across the ability range. If a new student commences training, CogniPlus quickly and automatically identifies the student’s ability level and classifies them accordingly. If the student has already completed one or more training sessions, the new session begins where the last one finished.So that students are neither under- nor over-challenged,all the training modules have been designed to be adaptive; that is, they adapt themselves continuously to the student’s ability level.

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4. Evaluation of results
Each student training session concludes with an easily read chart of progress by comparing the session to recent training sessions.