Brain-Savvy Cognitive Skills

Brain-Savvy cognitive skills program by BrainWare SAFARI is an award-winning software program that incorporates decades of proven clinical approaches to cognitive skills development into an engaging video-game format. The program contains 20 exercises comprising 168 progressively challenging levels that develop and strengthen 43 cognitive (mental processing) skills. 

Scientific research has demonstrated that the brain is plastic (it can change) and that the right kind of training develops new and stronger neural connections. Research is also showing the importance of skills like working memory, visualization, and visual-auditory integration to academic and life success. [Read More]

Brain-Savvy cognitive skills program does not teach reading or math or any subject matter. Rather it trains the underlying skills that enable students to learn and demonstrate learning. The skills developed in the program were selected because they are critical in the learning process. While the purpose of the program is serious and challenging, the program is designed to provide the inherent engagement and motivation of a video game. The 43 target skills fall into seven categories:

• Attention
• Memory
• Visual Processing
• Auditory Processing
• Sensory Integration
• Core Executive Functions
• Higher Order Executive Functions [Read More]