Age: 11 Gender: Female Location: Bedfordview, South Africa This is a letter from a mother from Bedfordview, South Africa. The woman’s daughter is eleven years old and recently completed Cogmed training. This is a letter from the mother to a local Cogmed Practitioner about her daughter’s training. I would like to express my gratitude as [...]

Age: 12 Gender: Female Location: Los Angeles, California Background: This twelve year old girl suffered from a very poor working memory. She simply could not hold on to information long enough to do anything with it. In class, she never took notes because the information would be gone by the time she tried to write [...]

Age: 8 Gender: Male Location: Naperville, Illinois Background: This boy was diagnosed with ADHD when he was young and at the beginning of his 3rd grade year, was only reading at a 1st grade level. He suffered from attention problems that were present both at school and at home. He would often trail off when he was [...]

Age: 11 Gender: Male Location: San Francisco, California Background: As a hard worker and a good student, this eleven year old boy had an above average IQ and got good grades in school, but he had significant executive function deficits and it set him at a big disadvantage from his peers. He had to work [...]

Age: 15 Gender: Female Location: Stockholm, Sweden This fifteen year old girl from Stockholm never gave her parents or teachers reason to think that she had attention problems or was being held back by any cognitive deficiency. As an intelligent girl, she received good grades in school and although she would sometimes struggle to stay [...]

Age: 12 Gender: Male Location: Los Angeles, California Background: This boy’s family had put a lot of time, effort, and money in trying to find an intervention for their son’s attention problems and working memory deficits. The summer the year before, his parents drove over an hour each way to a nearby university for a [...]

Age: 12 Gender: Male Location: South Bend, Indiana Background: Diagnosed with a Learning Disability and ADHD, this young boy had significant trouble staying focused in the classroom and at home. The boy also had motor difficulties and was never able to sit still long enough to read or focus on his homework. The boy was [...]

Age: 14 Gender: Male Location: South Bend, Indiana Background: This young man from Indiana went to an academically challenging private school. He excelled at sports – baseball in particular, but struggled to keep up with the high expectations of his school. The boy had significant attention problems; he didn’t know how to study and was [...]

Age: 8 Gender: Male Location: Wichita, Kansas Background: This eight years old boy suffered from a very poor sequential memory – so much so that it affected his speech. The boy struggled to say multi-syllabic words, often tripping over his tongue as could not hold onto information long enough to process it and express his [...]

Age: 14 Gender: Male Location: Wichita, Kansas Background: Despite being a smart and capable, this young man from Wichita wasn’t able to retain the information he needed in school and his grades were suffering as a result. It wasn’t that he wasn’t trying; he would just plain forget things. His mother said that he would [...]

Age: 11 Gender: Female Location: Columbus, Ohio Background: This young girl, although bright and interactive, had a lot of trouble remembering things. She struggled to follow directions and remember homework assignments. Despite trying really hard in school, these problems spilled over into the classroom as she experienced trouble with reading and spelling, which required her [...]

Age: 10 Gender: Male Location: Exeter, New Hampshire Background: By the time this young boy completed fourth grade, he was struggling to read at a first grade level. This young man had a long history of ADHD, language based learning disabilities, and an anxiety disorder. Despite years of intensive individual teaching intervention, he still struggled [...]