bryan roche
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 to
understand abstract relations corresponds to scores on standard IQ tests
(e.g., the WAIS and Kaufman’s brief intelligence test). One published
research paper (Cassidy, Roche & Hayes, 2011) described how a range
of different children (four normally developing and eight educationally
challenged) were provided with a fully automated relational skills
training method on a computer in once to twice weekly sessions lasting
approximately 90 minutes across several months. IQ tests (WISC III) were
administered before the relational training and several weeks following
the completion of training.
At the outset of the study, the four normal children had an average
IQ of 105 (ranging from 96-119). This is typical of normally developing
children. Nevertheless, this average IQ was raised to over 130, which
is called high functioning or exceptional. Children in this
intellectual range are often referred to as gifted. The lowest IQ among
the normally developing students following the intervention was 128 and
the highest was 137. This means that these children’s intellectual
ability was moved from average range to within the top 2 percent of the
population concludes Doctor Roche.
The affordable and easy access to educational interventions to hone the
foundational educational skills of any child has the potential to
democratize education states RaiseYourIQ Director of Learning, Doctor
Sarah Cassidy.
This is why we want to offer any and every school free access to our
SMART Brain Training. It can be quite impractical for a school to try to
bring up to speed a child who is years behind in educational attainment
due to a lack of investment in that child in their earlier years, by
parents or otherwise. The identification of relational skills as the
basic building blocks of intelligence, however, offers the possibility
of re-mediating these deficits in a very efficient way so that
educational efforts will be more effective and so that any child whether
gifted, disadvantaged or with normal IQ can reach their educational
potential in an expedited fashion.
To sign up to SMART Brain Training for free, please visit RaiseYourIQ Brain Training.