Hi Mark,

Thanks for your response and questions.

We did a control group study on reading problem students a couple years ago because an independent researcher asked for it to help with his NSF grant. If we can help a researcher get a grant by doing a control group study, we would certainly do it, but doing our own clinical control group doesn't really make sense.

I completely agree that personal training adds accountability and would more likely get results because students show up to sessions, but in studies with digital programs like posit science (when student do show up) personal training still gets much greater improvements and in many more areas.

We train the directors how to do testing and administrate the WJ3 (cognitive and achievement testing). We have an agreement with Riverside Publishing to use this testing. We do not diagnose, but use the tests to measure the program results. We use the same tests that many brain researchers use to measure interventions. In the 15 years I have been with the company we have used many tests including TONI4, DTLA, LACT, etc.

If you would like to look at the difference between TBI students and other students that go through our training, I suggest you download our 2009 results report. It lists many group of students that we work with including, ADHD, Dyslexia, TBI, and Autism. **.

We have over 70 exercises which are very different from our tests. We do not test the student on exercises to measure the results of our program.

The gold standard right now for TBI soldiers would be the training that Tricare covers, which is speech therapy. The speech therapy would provide different types of cognitive therapy but is not specific.

I understand that losing the "fog" could be seen as anecdotal but I find it interesting. Some of our TBI students have been walking around in a "fog" for years. They had been through speech therapy and digital cognitive training and still had the "fog". It was only after our intense training that they felt it was lifted. I have many comments and testimonials from TBI students. Our student of the year 2010 had a major TBI, was in a coma for 70 days and in the hospital for 340 days. He went to the same TBI treatment center as Gabrielle Gifford. He went through speech therapy and the digital programs. He said that LearningRx changed his life. He has a video up that he created **

I have had a very personal experience with TBI in the last year with a close family member. He was extremely sharp before his infection and months after his infection he still had working memory and executive function loss. I was very worried that he might never come back completely. A couple months ago he started LearningRx training. He is almost completely back. Before training he had good days and bad days, now he rarely has a bad day.

I wish you the best.

Tanya