Program Focused on Improved Literacy is Delivering Impressive Results

Brain Jogging is an online cognitive development program that Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley is using as a method to help improve literacy in our Club members. The Brain Jogging program is a patented computer software program that prepares the mind to learn and helps to train and condition areas of weakness for individuals with learning challenges. These learning challenges are typically caused by deficiencies in processing speed, working memory, attention, or retrieval.

Brain Jogging steps in to close that gap, while also spawning growth in literacy and math. Since connections between nerve cells in the brain are not fixed – they can be trained to process information more proficiently. With training through the Brain Jogging software, it can help to: increase attention levels, increase long-term memory and retention ability, build perceptual and processing ability, and improve motor skills.

The outcomes the organization is seeing based on initial assessments in September and midpoint testing in February shows that members participating in regular Brain Jogging sessions are, on average, making significant grade level equivalency gains and an overwhelming majority are making gains of more than a half grade level in four months’ time.

Brayden, a member of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley – Loudon County Club, is a current participant in the program, and has this to say about Brain Jogging:

“At my school, I’ve been Student of the Month and I’ve made the Honor Roll. The Club has helped me with getting on the Honor Roll because of the homework help they give me.

I think the biggest thing that helps me is a program they have at the Club called Brain Jogging. I think it has helped me to remember things that I’ve learned in school and it also has taught me how to focus.”