Brainfit Studio - Discussion

[kiasu--carer]

Yeah, program work so well that they close Jurong East location at 200 jurong east avenue 1 less than 1 year later. Take at look at your first post show 4 locations.

TeacherDaddy:

4) There are currently 4 centres in Singapore and they incorporate MOE English syllabus. The latest one is run by a former MOE Teacher in a Hokkien Huey Kuan School at Bedok Reservoir.

Now only 3. Sorry, I share my advice too for fellow members to see for themselves. Many better programs around without computer problems all the time.

[TeacherDaddy]

Sigh. I can’t answer for that maybe boss there decided to close for personal reasons. I am not sure if you realise computers have been used by educators to improve learning hand in hand with good teachers. Were you ever told that your child was weak in English and was advised to read more but he wouldn’t? If so, like me you would be more appreciative of how technology like this has helped. My friend’s child was recommended to try it and he is autistic. Told me his child scored above 90 percent in Pathlight. He is on the home use programme. He just told me the reason for computer failure is because the host in USA does maintenance but it’s usually up and running in a day. I think we all know technology isn’t perfect. Maybe you can try to be more rational and not see things so negatively. Are you a parent?

[mummy1901]

hi kiasu-carer, i do not know much about brainFit classroom, but i must say they do use some programmes with pretty strong research proof and which are very well-designed from a neuroscience point of view.


i am a big fan of Dr Michael Merzenich's work http://merzenich.positscience.com/ , he was part of the team that invented the first cochlear implant to help hearing impaired individuals and also part of the team that created Fast ForWord, the programme brainfit classroom uses. you can read all about him and the programme in a book i highly-recommend \"the brain that changes itself\", available at kinokuniya. v easy to read for the layman and also has many other amazing real-life stories of people having their brains improved!

anyway, while it is true that computer-based educational programmes can be a pain when there are IT issues, we cannot deny that using computers and technology is the best way forward in education, since technology can adapt to the pace of each individual student while traditional one-teacher-to-many-students instruction caters only to a select group of students. i strongly believe teaching must adapt to the students and not have students adapt to curriculum!

[BrainFit Studio Singapore]

KohLL:

NOT Good. A waste of $ I have tried a package. Very nice when asking u to sign up but when $ paid .....different face. Cannot book weekends must pay extra and mons also cannot. I think if you buy those books outside from United Square can do at home. Nothing really fantastic. IMHO.

Dear KohLL,

Thank you for sharing your experience. We are disappointed to hear that you did not have a positive experience with us. At the same time, we are surprised to hear about your experience because from our parent feedback forms, parents generally give very positive feedback about our frontdesk scheduling experience and many have in fact highlighted our \"non-salesy\" approach.

Regarding additional weekend charges, we have resisted doing this over the past 10 years we have been in operation, and only just put this in place last year. As you can understand, weekends are the busiest for us and we have responded over the years by opening on both weekends. Unfortuantely, the demand for weekend sessions continue to grow hence we had to put that in place to encourage parents who can attend weekday sessions to do so. This has in fact helped eased our waiting list for weekend sessions.

As a significant proportion of our clients come from parent and professional referrals, we do take our students' progress and parent satisfaction very seriously. We will be sending you a private message and hope that you can get in touch with us to help us understand better how we may have lapsed in our service so that we can improve and also for us to see if we can assist you further.

Many thanks,
BrainFit Studio Singapore

[Enmum]

troubled:

GabyEn:

[quote=\"troubled\"]Like to know any difference between BrainFit Studio & BrainFit Classroom?

Hi
BrainFit Studio does only brain fitness training. BrainFit Classroom is another unit under their program which offers English enrichment and they incorporate some form of Brain Fitness training which supposed to boost the learning ability of the child.

I believe you can find more info from their respective websites.

Hi, thanks!

Anyone with children in their program, can give some comments or review?

How accurate is their mind mapping?
Is their report detailed?[/quote]Hi troubled (I hope you are not troubled anymore! ),

My girl has been to BrainFit at Novena and has improved a lot. I am especially happy because she focuses much better now and I have a much much easier time teaching her. Also less forgetful and school results had a big jump end of last year although I did take leave to help her prepare. My girl really enjoyed her sessions there. This is important because school has so much homework which she dreads! I really don't know why the school must give so much homework, it is quite crazy. Anyway, it is good to see her have some fun, which is also helping her brain develop. I think it has been worth it. Good luck!

[limchen]

Hi TeacherDaddy


Thanks for sharing your experience with Brainfit Classroom. I may not have checked it out otherwise although I have heard of Brainfit Studio.

The computer component of their English program uses Fast ForWord which is also used in Dyslexic Association of Singapore (DAS) as part of DAS education program that all dyslexic kids need to take.
http://www.das.org.sg/education-programme.html

I think it's a great program for kids who are poor in phonics, spelling and/or reading. My DD just went for the half hour free assessment and it's consistent with what we observed. I think for parents who suspect their kids may be dyslexic but are taking a wait-and-see attitude, check out this program to see if it will work for your child.

I will be signing her up soon once we work out the logistics. Thanks again for sharing your experience and taking the effort to maintain this thread. I will be leaving a PM for you. Please check later.

:thankyou:

[Coolkidsrock2]

My DS had been attending the Brainfit Classroom for the entire last year. He is in p3 now. He has visual processing difficulties and has short attention span.


The Fast Forward program is used interchangeably with the Reading Assistant program, ie one term of each program. I will pay to subscribe for access to the Fast Forward program during the Reading Assistant term so I want him to have daily practises. I had spoken to medical practitioners and have my own beliefs in how the brain works and I also notice that it is useful for him.

I am undecided if I should continue beyond p3. To be clear, it is not because it is no good. Rather it is because his weakness is in open-ended Comprehension and essay writing and given the limited time that we have on weekend, it may perhaps be better if I send him for writing class instead. That said, I will continue with my Fast Forward subscription as I am happy with the progress in terms of his visual processing.

I subscribed for both programs last year (1 term for Reading Assistant and 2 terms for Fast Forward) when my DD was sitting for her PSLE. She has her normal enrichment class so this is supplementary.

[glendt]

Is brainfit any different from mind champ, mind edge?

[leo88]

Hi,

I am new to this forum and after reading so many pages of queries and comments by all. I decided to share my experience here.
My child has learning difficulties and has not been doing well in school since P2. In June last year, I decided to give Brainfit Classroom a try as traditional tuition won’t really help him due to his very short attention span. I would like to share that I see improvements in my child’s academics since he attended Brainfit Classroom @ Kovan. First of all, before attending the class, he was not able to express himself well in terms of speech. His sentences were in broken forms like puzzles and we would have to piece them up and prompt him in order to understand what he wanted to tell. At about 3 months into the programme, we noticed significant changes in him as he was "suddenly" able to structure his sentences better when speaking although there are still short pauses in between. He is now one year into the programme and we begin to see improvements in his academics as well although he still has a lot of catching up to do. In our recent meet up with his school teachers, his teachers also agreed they see improvements in him. I am going to let him continue at the center. And most important of all, he enjoys the programme and looks forward to attend and do his Fast Forward practices at home whenever he has time in the evening.

This is the experience I have with Brainfit Studio. Hope it helps.

[kiasu--carer]

kiasu--carer:

Yeah, program work so well that they close Jurong East location at 200 jurong east avenue 1 less than 1 year later. Take at look at your first post show 4 locations.

TeacherDaddy:

4) There are currently 4 centres in Singapore and they incorporate MOE English syllabus. The latest one is run by a former MOE Teacher in a Hokkien Huey Kuan School at Bedok Reservoir.

Now only 3. Sorry, I share my advice too for fellow members to see for themselves. Many better programs around without computer problems all the time.

Another year later, seems the Brainfitclassroom centre at Bedok closed too. Just heard Brainfit Studio at East Coast will be closing end of this month. Seems the Studio only open for 1 year too. Not sure I'd believe in a business that keeps closing their businesses after 1 year or constantly has computer problems. Something definitely wrong.