What Is Audiblox?

Learning is like building a house. The first step is to lay a foundation. Unless there is a strong and solid foundation, cracks will soon appear in the walls, and with no foundation, the walls will collapse. In the same way one needs to lay a proper foundation before it becomes possible for a child to benefit from a course in reading, writing and arithmetic. If this foundation is shaky, learning "cracks" will soon appear. Audiblox develops and automatizes the foundational skills of reading, spelling, writing, mathematics, and the skills required in the learning of subject matter.

Simply put, Audiblox is a system of cognitive exercises, aimed at the development of foundational learning skills.

A foundational skill is not the same as a process, strategy or technique. The difference between these can be explained by using the game of basketball as example. In order to be a basketball player, a person first has to master the foundational skills, e.g. passing, dribbling, defense, and shooting. Only after that can he be taught strategies or techniques.

Audiblox develops and automates the foundational skills of reading, spelling, writing, mathematics and the skills required in the learning of subject matter. A list of the most important foundational skills addressed by Audiblox includes:

• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Working memory
• Concept of numbers
• Reasoning
• Logical thinking
• Fine motor coordination
• Gross motor coordination
• Sensory-motor integration

Audiblox Is Multisensory

Each person has a preferred learning style. We call a person a visual learner if he remembers best the things that he sees, an auditory learner if he remembers best the things that he hears, and a kinesthetic learner if he remembers best by doing. Audiblox is multisensory and teaches learners to use more than one sense to acquire and retain information.

People not only learn at different rates, but also in different ways. Some students want their teacher or lecturers to write everything on the board. Others prefer to listen. Some like to sit in small groups and discuss a question; others like to listen to a lecture, translating it into pictures or doodles in their notebook. Such individual learning preferences are known as learning styles.

Learning styles are generally divided into three categories: (1.) visual learners, who need to see it to know it, (2.) auditory learners, who need to hear it to know it and (3.) tactile/kinesthetic learners, who prefer a hands-on approach.

Although there is some value in adjusting to a preferred learning style, we should not overlook that a child must be prepared for the real world and real time. "In the real world, and real time, learning styles theory is often an academic luxury," writes James Atherton in an article entitled Learning styles don't matter. Therefore it is essential to teach a child a versatile learning approach from a young age, which means that he will be able to use multiple senses when learning. We must not improve only his strengths, but also his weaknesses.

There is no doubt that a person's weaker senses can be improved. A blind person, being deprived of sight, usually develops all the other senses to a remarkable degree. To learn to read Braille, for instance, his tactile sense must be developed to a remarkable degree. This fact is important because it shows without the help of complicated tests that every sense can be developed and improved.

By learning to use all his senses, the learner's ear will eventually come to the aid of his eye, and his hand to the aid of his ear, thereby opening three channels to his mind instead of only one.

Audiblox is multisensory and addresses the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic skills of a learner — all at once.

Based on Solid Learning Principles

AUDIBLOX WORKS! A recent, independent study in the U.S. achieved significant and dramatic results in 67 students, aged 5 to 18, with ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia and non-specific learning disabilities. Results were as follows: ADHD (35 students): 52.45% combined increase 37.24% pre-test avg/ 89.96% post-test avg Dyslexia (13 students): 46.76% combined increase 41.31% pre-test avg/ 88.06% post-test avg Dycalculia (2 students): 57.38% combined increase 39.76% pre-test avg/ 97.62% post-test avg Non Specific LD: 64.14% combined increase 30.40% pre-test avg/ 94.55% post-test avg

The first learning principle is that human learning does not take place on a single level, but is a stratified process. This characteristic is worldwide accepted as a didactic principle. The way in which the school system throughout the whole world is organized is an acknowledgement of this. One cannot send a child to university first. He must start in the first class and then progress year after year to the higher levels of education. Unless he has mastered a sufficient amount of the learning material presented to him in one year, to form a firm enough base on which to build the knowledge of the following year, he will not make progress in the next class.

Another simple and practical example is the fact that one has to learn to count before it becomes possible to learn to add and subtract. Suppose one tried to teach a child, who had not yet learned to count, to add and subtract. This would be quite impossible, and no amount of effort would ever succeed in teaching the child to add and subtract. This shows that counting is a skill that must be mastered before it becomes possible to learn to do calculations.

In the same way, there are also certain skills and knowledge that a child must have acquired first, before it becomes possible for him to benefit from a course in reading.