Our Comprehensive Program

Step 1

The Assessment

To MEASURE is to KNOW.
Trusted by parents, teachers, and clinicians worldwide.

If your child struggles with any attention or behaviour problems, our FOCUS assessment is the place to start.

Our FOCUS CPT (Continuous Performance Test) was co-developed by Biolink Attention Training, is unique in the field and is used to customise your child’s skills development program fully.

FOCUS scientifically measures the performance of key cognitive skills: attention, processing speed, impulse control, and the ability to filter auditory and visual distractions. The results are 100% objective – removing any chance for bias.

Administered more than 15 000 times, the FOCUS assessment has been standardised and validated twice since 2015. The assessment has strong psychometric properties that meet and even exceed the standards for educational assessments.

From the FOCUS results you will:

Get a detailed, objective look at your child’s strengths and weaknesses
Experience an “Aha!” moment
See in writing which of your child’s weak skills are responsible for their poor attention skills and poor behaviour
Have answers to make informed decisions regarding interventions or treatment for your child

We conduct an hour long one-on-one session with parents to discuss the results from the FOCUS assessment, in-depth.

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Step 2

Our Comprehensive Skills Development Program

We are the only company with a product that provides feedback technology WITH cognitive skills training AND behaviour shaping, and our armband is the only one out there that can monitor brain activity below the head. No one else can provide this combination – and that’s what makes us unique and the best.

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Neurocognitive Training

Our fully customised skills development program includes Neurocognitive exercises. During these exercises, your child needs to be fully focused (totally engaged) for the exercises to commence and continue. So, attention is key!

Each exercise develops and strengthens specific cognitive skills:

Sustained Attention
Brain Processing Speed
Impulse Control
Emotional Control
Memory (short-term, long-term, spatial, and working memory)
Filtering of distractions (auditory and visual)
Processing (visual, auditory, and discriminatory)
Visual Tracking
Hand-Eye Coordination
Fine Motor Skills

What are the results?

Improved academic performance
Increased occurrence of positive behaviour
Strengthened Cognitive Skills (helps with reading, writing, listening, paying attention, and memory
Strengthened Executive Functioning skills (helps to process information faster, filter / ignore distractions that impact attention and to develop mental flexibility and problem-solving skills)
Enhanced social interaction skills

Active Listening

Active listening is a vital skill in your child’s development. It is a skill that can be acquired and developed and we have the technology to do just that – Audio Lab.

Our Audio Lab application is ground-breaking technology that teaches, strengthens, and improves active listening as well as comprehension skills.

The Results:

A better understanding of concepts
Staying focused while listening
Improved storing of information in memory
Better recall of information
Ability to start assignments right away
Making fewer mistakes

Transfer of Skills Learned

The whole purpose of teaching your child new skills is for them to be able to use them in real-world situations, right? What’s the use of learning a new skill without intending to be able to use it in real life?

One of the most exciting features that we offer is our Academic Transfer Lab application, which allows us to monitor a student’s attention while they are working on real-life tasks or activities.

A typical example of how our Academic Transfer Lab works: Thandi will sit, BodyWave Armband monitor attached, and do a math worksheet. Thandi is “told” by the computer and BodyWave Armband when her attention drifts so that she can re-apply her attention to the work. With repetition, Thandi starts to learn how to focus on her work for longer periods (because she practiced it through our Neurocognitive exercises) and she learns to ignore distractions like noises or people talking.

Academic Transfer Lab follows a specific protocol to transfer skills learned to practical situations. Academic Transfer Lab is played in addition to the other exercises, not as a substitute.

Mindfulness Training

Mindfulness plays an integral part in minimising anxiety and increasing happiness in your child. Being mindful is when your child pays attention to the present moment (not daydreaming) in an accepting emotional manner.

Our skills development program incorporates ways to eliminate daydreaming in your child while they are busy with the Neurocognitive exercises as well as other real-world activities.

Several of our Neurocognitive exercises have built-in distractors to which your child must respond or ignore. This ensures that your child is not thinking about other things (daydreaming) and forces them to focus only on the task at hand; forces them to be mindful.

Self-Regulation

Self-regulation is your child’s ability to monitor and manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviours in ways that are acceptable and produce positive results.

When your child acts out or melts down while busy with one of our Neurocognitive exercises, the exercise will stop, because they are not fully focused anymore on what they are busy with. This teaches your child that when they have a melt-down, they are no longer self-regulating and is unable to produce acceptable ‘work product’. They realise that a melt-down is not conducive to positive results.

Behaviour Shaping

During each of our Neurocognitive exercises, we apply behaviour shaping. This means if your child is not fully focused, starts to fidget, or displays any behaviours that are distracting them from what they are busy with, the exercise will stop. This helps your child to realise that their ‘distracting’ behaviours has a direct influence on their ability to sustain their attention.

For example: your child is busy with one of our exercises and they start to tap their foot. All of a sudden, the exercise stops, because their foot tapping is actually distracting them from paying full attention. For the first time, they will realise that this type of behaviour is distracting them. They are then able to make the correlation between their ‘distracting’ behaviours and their ability to pay attention in the classroom or while doing their homework.

Individualised & Customised

At our Biolink Attention Training centres we ensure that each student’s program is individualised, customised, and streamlined. This is done with our Sheer Genius™ technology.

Sheer Genius™ sits in the background and gets to know your child. He keeps track of your child’s ability to pay attention, how fast they can process information, how impulsive they are, and what the effect audio and visual distractions have on their ability to pay attention.

Once Sheer Genius™ has gotten to know your child, he will set challenges and behavioural goals for them. Your child becomes part of his challenging program but is never allowed to fail or become frustrated. This is done through the Sheer Genius™ auto-adjust algorithm, so each session is custom-tailored for each child.

Step 3

Continuous Support

Workshops
We offer educational workshops (online and in person) to develop the skills and increase the knowledge of parents to help them to actively support and guide their children with academic and emotional challenges.
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Webinars
We host free, monthly, educational webinars to help parents and teachers on topics such as routine, reading comprehension, ADHD, Anxiety, etc.
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Educational Library
We provide an array of digital content in the form of Checklists, Fact Sheets, eBooks, eMagazines, fun activity books, to name but a few. We also have an informational and educational weekly blog. All our content is created with parents and teachers in mind to help increase their knowledge with practical information to use at home and in the classroom.
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SACE
We are an accredited service provider for the South African Council of Teachers (SACE). We contribute to the continuous professional development of teachers and offer SACE accredited workshops (online and in person).
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