PACE

PACE is a 12 week program of intense one-on-one cognitive training, ideal for those who struggle in school. PACE employs fun & simple exercies that serve to retrain the brain while keeping the child stimulated & eager to achieve results.Los Angeles Autism

What are the benefits of the PACE program?

The PACE program foster improvements in cognitive functioning by working on processing speed, attention, focus, problem solving, visualization, & both long & short term membory. PACE additionally imprives the child's self esteem, self image & attitude.

Overview of the PACE Program

1. PACE is based on the best scientific research available and is continually modified to incorporate new scientific data.
2. PACE targets and trains those skills that are most likely to have a meaningful impact on a person's learning and work performance. These skills include attention and concentration, memory, processing speed, problem solving, visual processing, phonetic awareness, and comprehension.
3. PACE is provided individually to a student (child or adult) to achieve significant results quickly. Each student receives his/her own training kit.
4. PACE consists of sequenced procedures to challenge - not bore or frustrate the student.
5. PACE is provided on a one-on-one basis to give the student immediate feedback (error correction and positive reinforcement).
6. PACE will improve a student's self-esteem and confidence by allowing him or her to actually see the difference in his or her own performance.
7. PACE drives new skills to the subconscious so that they become habitual and automatic.
8. PACE procedures appear to be non-academic so that they are different from the schoolwork with which many may have had negative experiences.
9. PACE requires parental involvement or a helper. Practicing at home is cost-effective and help transfer learned skills to your student's everyday activities.
10. PACE develops meaningful skills that are used in your student's daily activities so that there is a high level of retention.
11. PACE produces valuable results that are quickly seen - there is a high return for your student's time, money, and effort.

24 Underlying Processing Skills that PACE Works On

  1. Auditory Processing: to process sounds. The major underlying skill needed to learn to read and spell.
  2. Auditory Discrimination: to hear differences in sounds such as loudness, pitch, duration, and phonemes.
  3. Auditory Segmenting: to break apart words into their separate sounds.
  4. Auditory Blending: to blend individual sounds to form words.
  5. Auditory Analysis: to determine the number, sequence, and which sounds are within a word.
  6. Auditory- Visual Association: to be able to link a sound with an image.
  7. Comprehension: to understand words and concepts.
  8. Divided Attention: to attend to and handle two or more tasks at one time. Such as: taking notes while listening, carrying totals while adding the next column. Required for handling tasks quickly as well as handling complex tasks.
  9. Logic and Reasoning: to reason, plan, and think.
  10. Long Term Memory: to retrieve past information.
  11. Math Computations: to do math calculations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
  12. Processing Speed: the speed which the brain processes information.
  13. Saccadic Fixation: to move the eyes accurately and quickly from one point to another.
  14. Selective Attention: to stay on task even when distraction is present.
  15. Sensory-Motor Integration: to have the sensory skills work well with the motor skills - such as eye-hand coordination.
  16. Sequential Processing: to process chunks of information that are received one after another.
  17. Simultaneous Processing: to process chunks of information that are received all at once.
  18. Sustained Attention: to be able to stay on task.
  19. Visual Discrimination: to see differences in size, color, shape, distance, and orientation of objects.
  20. Visual Processing: to process and make use of visual images.
  21. Visual Manipulation: to flip, rotate, move, change color, etc. objects and images in one's mind.
  22. Visualization: to create mental images or pictures.
  23. Visual Span: to see more/wider in a single look.
  24. Working Memory: Holding information in your memory while deciding what to do with it.