RaiseYourIQ is now offering FREE brain training for schools and teachers to make kids better learners. Any school can now sign up and get free licenses to what RaiseYourIQ calls “Intervention based Intellectual skills training”.

Following 2 years working with teachers and schools, RaiseYourIQ published studies show that students, who complete the SMART Brain Training course which is based on research into “Relational Skills”, will significantly raise their IQ (10-20 on average) plus also improve on cognitive, problem solving, reading, literacy and language skills.

RaiseYourIQ co-founder and one of the leading researchers into “Relational Frame Theory” Doctor Bryan Roche states that relational skills training has been shown in published research to impact intellectual ability scores (measured using the WISC) and in independent research into relational skills have shown that our ability...

Many traditional theorists on intelligence hold that there are limits set by biology on IQ and memory. However, modern psychologists have shown with published research that IQ can be raised (see Cassidy, Roche & Hayes, 2011) and that these IQ rises are permanent (Roche, Cassidy &Stewart, 2013). We also know that memory is an essential component of intellectual functioning and that this too can be improved (see Jaeggi et al., 2008). These studies show that IQ score no longer has to refer to a number that limits us. Rather, it can be seen simply as a starting point for us to continuously increase our intellectual skill sets for meaningful gains in all avenues of life. Below are 7 ways to raise your IQ and 5 ways to improve your memory.

7 Ways to Raise Your IQ

1. Improve your relational skills
   Psychologists have also discovered that there is a strong correlation between relational...

The use of “Game Based Learning” in schools and the classroom by teachers can have a measurable effect on teaching methods and student success in subjects like math, science, reading and languages. In the modern education system game based learning and brain training solutions have the potential to bolster teaching methods while educational games in the classroom are fast proving an invaluable tool to connect and engage students. Games in the classroom in any form have shown to increase student motivation through engagement.

However to avoid confusion it needs to be pointed out that “Gamification” and “Game Based Learning” in education are not the same thing. So let us dig a little deeper into Gamification vs. Game-Based Learning.

The term “Gamification” within a school context would likely refer to the use of game-like principles when teaching. In a classroom setting this might be a...

Brain training in the form of relational skills training can help kids with autism and asperger’s learn. Psychologists have long suspected that Autistic and Asperger’s children lack what is called “perspective taking”. In simple terms, these children lack the ability to imagine what it is like to have someone else’s feelings or “perspective” on things and so they appear to lack empathy and live in their “own little world”.

Treatments for these conditions are based on best guesses as to how to help kids with this problem. Until recently psychologists have done a poor job at defining exactly what skills are involved in learning how to take someone else’s perspective.

However, in recent years, psychologists have made breakthroughs in identifying exactly how to teach better perspective taking and empathy.

The solution lies in the finding that a very specific “relational skill” is...

Cognitive brain training is about giving the brain a workout or sending it to a brain gym to improve fitness levels. The actual doing of cognitive brain training will entail a series of “brain games” or intellectual tasks the person practices to improve learning and general cognitive functions, such as memory, information processing speed and attention. Psychology and neuroscience perception of learning and learning methods has changed over the years. Today the science community agrees that regardless of age or learning abilities, brain training is a scientifically proven method to acquire new learning skills and improve cognitive functions. This dispenses with the old myth that a person can’t improve IQ at any stage in life or change the way we think and learn.

Thanks to technology, cognitive training has moved out of the psychologist’s office and online where web based software uses...

RaiseYourIQ has launched four new brain training games which come free bundled with the SMART brain training course.

The four games, “Brain Speed”, “Brain Agility” “Brain Memory” and “N-Back” continue the development of psychology led and science based games to improve brain health from RaiseYourIQ. These new brain training games are based on scientific research and clinical data following feedback from both our educational and business customers on what individual games they would use to complement our SMART brain training states Doctor Sarah Cassidy who co-founded RaiseYourIQ.
The “Brain Speed” game has been developed to speed up the brains cognitive speed and improve the ability to thinking on ones feet. It will also help people learn to make logical decisions more quickly.
“Brain Agility” has been developed by psychologists to assist with multi-tasking training to improve...

AT the start of the summer I wrote about SMART, a new online programme, from NUI Maynooth, scientifically proven to help raise IQ. Released in May and accessible to everyone on www.RaiseYourIQ.com, SMART stands for Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training.

It has been developed over the last 20 years by behavioural and educational psychologists as an intervention for those who may have learning difficulties, but also for kids who simply are not reaching their educational potential for whatever reason.

The phenomenal results the programme is producing began drawing public interest after a study was conducted in Rathmore Primary School in Athboy, Co Meath. Fifteen children undertook the training over the course of four months, for periods of around 45 minutes, two to three times per week. The resulting average rise in IQ amongst the group was 23.

Apart from this...

A recent article in The Conversation by Emma Blakey addressed a widespread concern about exaggerated claims made by developers of brain training products.

Blakey correctly pointed out that the evidence for the effects of brain training on children’s performance at school is weak. But there is a real danger that such articles can swing public opinion too far in one direction. The fact is that developments in the science underlying brain training are pretty exciting.

It would be hard to dispute the negative effect of industry spin, or “neurojargon”, on the public understanding and misunderstanding of brain training. It appears that any claim containing the words “brain” or “neuroscience” gains extra weight.

Brain training developers know that to sell their products they need to use these “neuro” terms, provide meaningless images of brains on their web pages, and talk about “laboratory...

At this year’s 2014 Australia/New Zealand annual conference for Contextual Behavioral Science, keynote speaker Dr. Bryan Roche, of Maynooth University, Ireland and co-founder of RaiseYourIQ, outlined the evidence for a new online intellectual skills training programme, called the SMART brain training programme, that can increase IQ or intelligence to a degree that Dr. Roche refers to as “life-changing”. The new system, which is delivered in the format of an online game, may not look too unlike many popular “brain-training” games, but with the important difference that it is based on the latest behavioral science and is the only form of such cognitive or brain training that has been proven to increase general intelligence. “Many of these so called brain training games available on line and on hand held-devices are based very loosely on scientific sounding concepts and they only allude to...

The brain games industry is full of punch lines like “Give your brain a workout” or “Games that sharpen your mind”, punch lines that have little scientific evidence or academic research to support the claims. The brain games industry has been hijacked by software gaming companies hoping to sell thousands of apps leaving the real science based brain health companies wondering should they jump on the bandwagon. Maybe they could use punch lines like “Brain training helps you use 90% of your brain power”.

It would be funny except brain training and brain games have huge real world brain health benefits for kids and adults to raise IQ, address learning difficulties and improve intellectual capabilities. People whether kids or adults who turn to brain games, do so in the vast majority of cases to improve their learning ability or remedy some intellectual skills. They will also be paying in...