Captain’s Log MindPower Builder

The Complete Mental Gym!

Your clients of all ages will discover how exciting it is to improve their thinking skills. Based on extensive scientific research and clinical experience, the Captain’s Log MindPower Builder’s 50 programs provide you with over 2000 different exercises to train twenty different cognitive skills. At the same time, you can target behavioral tracks, such as patience, focus, listening, response control and mental processing speed. The easy-to-use wizard helps you to quickly create a customized training plan for each client. The depth of the content provides you with a wide variety of challenging tasks to assure success in training whatever cognitive skills you select. The Captain’s Log MindPower Builder is truly the world’s most powerful and complete mental gym.

The MindPower Builder has 18 cognitive skill tests that can be used to automatically create customized training plans. There are nine basic tests for children or adults with cognitive impairments and nine advanced tests for ages 13 or older. Trainers can administer just a few tests and then quickly create an individualized training plan. These tests can also be re-administered to show a player’s progress after completing a training plan.

Included in the MindPower Builder are fun and motivating cognitive skill video game breaks that provide a built-in reward system to encourage players to “do their best.” Players can now work in the office or school setting and also in their home settings using the new Cloud system and all computers that have the software installed automatically stay in-synch. Trainers can now oversee home training and modify it “on the fly.”

The new BrainPower system is unique to the MindPower Builder and combines two powerful types of brain training: brainwave biofeedback and cognitive skill memory and attention training (described below). Getting started is very easy with the Wizard setup, as simple as 1-2-3.

The MindPower Builder trains 20 unique cognitive skills and is designed to be used by a wide variety of professionals. It provides the flexible options, controls and ease of use needed to create a cognitive rehabilitation or cognitive enhancement training program that works with individuals with differing cognitive deficits, including learning, memory, or neurologically based disorders.
And the Trainer is always in control; being able to start, stop, customize, skip and structure all of the training exercises. It can also be incorporated into a healthy brain exercise program for all adults, because if you don’t use it, you lose it.

Many professionals and their clients or students of all ages (6 to 96) will enjoy and be challenged by the over 2000 different exercises. Progress is automatically measured and available in both data and graph formats. Context relevant help and a 200+ page detailed manual are always available for those Trainers who want to explore and master the more advanced features of the MindPower Builder.

For older adults the MindPower Builder takes advantage of the new Windows 8 Touch Screen technology. All Win 8 Touch screens work automatically with it and make cognitive rehabilitation fun and easy for any clients with motor impairments or who have difficulty using the mouse. MindPower Builder also has built-in support for a wide variety of USB input devices for individuals with various handicaps.
MindPower Builder is a true professional cognitive rehabilitation system based on the proven Captain’s Log technology that is currently used in all 50 states and in over 50 other countries.

The 2000+ cognitive skill exercises are divided into nine modules. These modules are briefly described below.

The best way to learn more about the MindPower Builder is to take a hands-on approach and download the free fully functioning trial version. Test drive the MindPower Builder for two weeks free, there is nothing to return and you have no obligation to purchase — the trial version is FREE. Just click HERE and sign-up today.

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Attention Skills Developmental Module

These eight programs begin with the simple exercises you need for clients with head injuries or developmental disabilities.

Visual Motor Skills Module

These seven popular programs play like video games but work to train hand-eye coordination. visual processing, and fine motor control.

Attention Skills The Next Generation Module

Enhance higher level attention skills and memory. These three challenging programs build on the skills addressed in Attention Skills Developmental.

Use your problem-solving skills; classify by
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Conceptual Memory Skills Module

Train the ability to classify, discriminate, and apply abstract rules to specific decisions. Target impulse control, memory, processing speed, and reasoning.

Logic Skills Module

This module features five engaging programs to help improve executive functioning and reasoning skills.

Numeric Concepts/Memory Skills Module

These five challenging programs train working, immediate, and short-term memory, reasoning, visual discrimination, categorization and sequencing.

Real Life Working Memory Module

These five programs are both practical and entertaining. Clients learn to put their working memory to work for them in real-life situations.

Working Memory Skills Module

Help your clients learn to “think on their feet.” The five programs in this module train memory for names and faces, sequential pattern recognition, list recall, and more – skills that are vital for success in school and life.

Auditory Working Memory Module

These five programs help clients with attention deficits improve both working memory and listening skills.

Featuring BrainPower™

A positive relaxed attitude is a key component in building confidence and improving cognitive skills. You can include simple brainwave training in conjunction with the video game breaks in the Captain’s Log MindPower Builder. The optional BrainPower System helps clients to develop “C.H.A.R.M.”, a Calm Happy Alert Relaxed Mental state, while they play the games.

The Captain’s Log MindPower Builder is research-based.

In a $1.3M Duke University study funded by the Department of Education, 64% of students who began the study in the first grade with six or more inattentive symptoms were symptom-free (0 or 1 symptom) in the 2nd grade after only 20 hours of attention training using this software.

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Does it generalize?

Research overwhelmingly supports the benefits of cognitive training and its generalization to meaningful improvements for real-life functioning. As an example, in a research study done specifically with older adults, brain exercises clearly paid big dividends. Three groups of volunteers (mean age 73.6 years) received 10 sessions of cognitive exercises to boost reasoning skills, memory, and mental processing speed. The adults who did the activities were 3 times faster than controls when performing activities of daily living such as reading medicine ingredients, reacting to road signs, or finding contact information. Five years later, when compared to a control group, participants with memory training did 75% better on memory tasks, participants with reasoning training did 40% better on reasoning tasks and those with speed training did 300% better than the control group. Summing up the results of this study, Shankar Vedantam wrote in the Washington Post, “That would be as if someone went to the gym Monday through Friday for the first two weeks of the new year (2007), did no exercise after that for five years, and still saw significant benefits in 2012.” People are living longer than ever before. According to statistics, 45% of the aging population will develop some form of dementia by the age of 85. Cognitive training is the only treatment that appears to help mitigate this problem. Can we afford not to use it?

Billing Codes

Insurance coverage varies according to insurance company and state, but all major carriers now cover Cognitive Rehabilitation. It is billed in 15 minute units with fees paid at $35 to $55 per unit, depending on the region of the country. A treatment plan is required and progress must be documented. In addition, the patient needs to be qualified to show that he or she can possibly benefit from this form of treatment. Currently, neurological disorders, strokes, cancer treatment (medicines used to treat cancer are toxic to the brain) and traumatic brain injuries are covered. Alzheimer's is usually not covered. It is recommend that a prescription for cognitive rehabilitation be obtained from the treating physician and that the clinician also call the insurance company involved if there are specific concerns regarding the client’s policy.

Code: 97532: Development of cognitive skills to improve attention, memory, problem solving (includes compensatory training), direct patient contact by the provider, each 15 minutes.

Code: 97533: Sensory integrative techniques to enhance sensory processing and promote adaptive responses to environment demands, direct patient contact by the provider, each 15 minutes.

Captain’s Log MindPower Builder

The Complete Mental Gym!

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