The Thinking Center_Mastering Cognitive Skills

PACE
(Processing And Cognitive Enhancement)
The Thinking Center is one of only three national training facilities in the country!

PACE (Processing And Cognitive Enhancement) was developed by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals to quickly and significantly build the mental skills that are so vital to academic success.

The Thinking center has seen well over 1300 students since it began in 1991. Since the inception of using the PACE program, we are now able to make more concrete, long lasting changes for students and their families.

Pace includes 36 hours of hands-on training by a Thinking Center educator and another 36 hours of home procedures with family members. The procedures are intense, challenging, fun, and leveled so success can consistently be measured. It also includes auditory processing training.

Training is the key to the difference between this type of training and standard tutoring. We train a student to process, to use the memory more efficiently, attend to tasks better, and use logic more regularly. PACE does not train in math, English or other academic subjects. Tutoring does that well, and we do continue to offer those services. PACE programming trains a student's underlying skills so that academics can become easier.

If your child is disorganized and/or frustrated when studying, makes frequent "careless" errors, does written work slowly, needs instructions repeated or has difficulty comprehending and remembering, PACE can have a direct impact on his/her school work. The Thinking Center screening includes evaluation of attention, short-term memory, long-term retrieval, processing speed, and visual and auditory processing.

PACE has advantages for those labeled as dyslexic, ADD, ESOL, at-risk, or students falling through the cracks who don't seem to qualify for services. Autistic, down syndrome, brain damaged students and senior adults also benefit.

We use the PACE programs for children (starting age 6) through adults. Not only do we use it for our students with learning issues, but we also use it in our speech program and cognitive rehabilitation for children, teenagers, adults, and senior adults. PACE strengthens mental abilities by training and exercising working memory, processing speed and attention skills. All of these skills are required throughout life. By improving and automating these skills, the key to learning fast and efficiently is discovered.