Schools Facing New Challenges
The world has never encountered the new myriad challenges that have resulted from the pandemic, and schools are feeling the pressure like never before. Brain Power has solutions to alleviate these stresses.
Brain Power provides:
- Educational software for hybrid and distance learning
- Professional development courses to help teachers
- Goal Tracking made easy
Brain Power Solutions
Innovative products for the new world of schooling.
Empowered Brain™
Based on years of research and clinical testing by doctors and neuroscientists from Harvard and MIT, Empowered Brain™ is the world’s first wearable system that helps students with autism, ADHD, and other social-emotional challenges learn the life skills crucial for happy self-sufficiency.
Empowered Brain™ is ideal for distance learning over video links such as ZOOM or for in-classroom use, and has been tested in multiple environments.
Brain Power Academy
Brain Power Academy’s PowerPD are short and practical Professional Development opportunities that will empower your teachers to help students meet their social-emotional needs, both in the classroom and remotely.
Created by our team of educators, doctors, and neuroscientists with your concerns in mind!
fastIEP
We know that IEP goal tracking is a huge challenge for schools, especially with hybrid or distance learning models! Our fundamentally new software is making it easier than ever before.
Log events in a single click, create progress reports automatically, save and time.
What is Empowered Brain™?
Based on years of research and clinical testing by doctors and neuroscientists from Harvard and MIT, Empowered Brain™ is the world’s first wearable system that helps students with autism, ADHD, and other social-emotional challenges learn the life skills crucial for happy self-sufficiency.
Empowered Brain™ is ideal for distance learning over video links such as ZOOM or for in-classroom use, and has been tested in multiple environments.
How it Works
The general concept of Empowered Brain is simple but powerful:
Your child looks through a wearable computer screen and gets points for performing social behaviors with you and others.
The real-time reinforcement builds social-emotional skills and self confidence, and creates data for progress reports.
What is Brain Power Academy?
In 2020, we entered a new era of education, and many schools were given a huge task to update their learning models, but were given no resources for how to accomplish this. Brain Power Academy helps to bridge that gap. We provide online, self-paced educational courses for teachers and school districts; from distance-learning to stress management to goal tracking.
Brain Power is an approved Provider of Professional Development in Special Education and Comprehensive Health. Our PowerPD units are designed to help you teach social-emotional skills to your students and guide them to reach their full potential.
Benefits
- Earn PDPs for license renewal
- Self-paced learning to meet your COVID-19 era needs
- Evidence-based professional learning
- Practical, ready-to-apply strategies for you and your students
What is fastIEP?
One of the most frustrating aspect of an educator’s job is goal tracking. Completing IEP reports is essential for schools, yet the tools available for accomplishing this are incredibly poor.
fastIEP is the solution. Finally, goal and progress tracking made simple. Our software is simple, flexible, and ideal for distance learning as well as in-classroom setups.
fastIEP is currently in Beta development. Contact us for access to our VIP preview!
Benefits
- No more spreadsheets!
- Track IEP progress quickly in an easy-to-use app
- Use our built-in goals, or customize your own
- Automatically send progress reports to parents and administrators
Empowered Brain™ School Case Studies
Identifying Indications of ADHD Using Data from Gamified Software on Google Glass
New Bedford High School
Brain Power has supported New Bedford High School and its commitment to academic excellence for special needs students since forming a partnership in 2018. Excited by the school’s openness to innovative technology and scientific exploration, Brain Power approached New Bedford High School to initiate a pilot research study, with the goal of exploring how behavioral data collected through gamified software on Google Glass could provide insight about autistic members of the student population.
Empowered Brain Social Skills Intervention in Plymouth South Middle School
Plymouth South Middle School
Early in its company history, Brain Power developed a partnership with Plymouth South Middle School (PSMS) due to a mutual commitment to serving special needs students. In Fall 2017, a student on the autism spectrum at PSMS and his mother were drawn to Brain Power’s Empowered Brain technology and its ability to facilitate social-emotional learning through novel approaches.
Reducing the Effects of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Student Success Using Heads-Up Technology
Chandler Elementary School
Near the close of 2017, Sara Gaynor, an Early Childhood/Special Needs Educator at the
Chandler School, reached out to the Brain Power team to initiate a relationship between the
school and Brain Power. Having witnessed marked improvements in her own son’s social skills
following his use of Brain Power’s social-emotional learning software in his middle school
curriculum, Sara sought to explore using the software with her students. She introduced Brain
Power to the Chandler School’s administrative and special education teams to launch a
research initiative at the school.
“This could be a game changer for people in the spectrum all over the world!”
– CBS News TV: Lisa Hughes, anchor
Empowered Brain™ Evidence
Empowered Brain really works, but don’t take our word for it. Learn what educators and real scientific research have to say! As we are all being reminded these days – the science really matters. Brain Power has always taken this seriously. Careful clinical studies in the first 4 years of our company have revealed data showing that Empowered Brain works – for autism and ADHD.
Testimonials
Research
Empowered Brain supports full Inclusion
Brief Summary: Daily sessions of Empowered Brain were conducted both in a dedicated special-education (pullout) classroom, and in a full-inclusion general-education classroom. Improvement in student symptoms of autism and ADHD were observed in both.
Specific domains of improvement included social communication, behavior, motivation, and cognition. Sessions lasted 10 minutes and took place once in the special-education classroom and once in the full-inclusions classroom, each day for two weeks. Multiple educators completed standardized clinical assessment questionnaires to assess the improvement.
Desirability of technology for home and school
Brief Summary: Children with autism rated the Google Glass hardware of Empowered Brain to be desirable and acceptable for both home and school use as an assistive aid.
The 8 children in this study, who had a wide range of autism severity and age, all rated Google Glass as desirable. Parents found the experience of testing and trying Google Glass to be surprisingly positive in 75% of cases.
This is the first paper in the academic literature with Google Glass 2nd edition, which Brain Power received a year before release, as a Google partner.
Teachers rate smartglasses-based therapy as practical, non-distracting, & effective
Brief Summary: Educators found Empowered Brain technology to be easy to use, practical, and efficacious for student learning.
A special education teacher, general education teacher, and paraprofessional used the technology with a student in a real-world classroom for 2 weeks. Student verbal and non-verbal skills were described as being improved with the use of Empowered Brain.
6-Week in-school study showing feasibility & efficacy
Brief Summary: Elementary Students had less hyperactivity, irritability, and social withdrawal following use of the Empowered Brain.
Four students clinically diagnosed with autism took part in this 6-week controlled study. Teachers reported that students with the highest usage of Empowered Brain had the greatest benefit. The technology was found to be feasible and efficacious.
Get Empowered!
Interested to learn more about how you can empower your students to learn social-emotional skills through distance learning? Schedule an online demo with our distance learning experts today!
Brain Power for Schools includes:
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Priority shipping
- You own the hardware (Google Glass and accessories)
- Lifetime updates to apps
- Lifetime access to all future apps
- Lesson plans and curriculum made for you by teachers and physicians
- Professional development tools for teachers
- IEP integration for school
- Teacher/Administrator accounts
- Technical support for school
- Available for shipping worldwide
