Adults

Who We Help · Adults

the brain you have isn’t the brain you’re stuck with

NACD works with adults, not just children. A neurodevelopmental assessment maps how you process, hold, and use information, and an individual program improves it. This is your own program, for your own brain, at any age.

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Be smarterRaise the processing your thinking runs on.
Think more clearlyHold more of the problem in mind at once.
Learn more quicklyStore information systematically, retrieve it fast.
Think more conceptuallyReason at a higher level of complexity.
Parent and child learning at home
For Adults

You’ve tried the usual. Here’s what’s different.

Every adult seeks ways to improve his or her ability to function. We seek ways to be more efficient, more productive, and more in control of our lives. Today we hear about many different approaches utilizing nutrition, exercise, and various relaxation and concentration strategies. Although many of these factors help us to feel and work better, they often fail to meet our hopes and expectations. In our demanding and often stressful lives, we really need a better way to improve our lives.

NACD teaches adults how to improve their cognitive function itself. Think of the vast changes that could occur if it were possible to be smarter, think more clearly, learn more quickly, and think more conceptually.

In the past, it was not believed to be possible to improve someone’s cognitive function. We know now that it is quite possible to do so.

The implications of this discovery are enormous. Teaching the brain to work more efficiently, store information more systematically, and retrieve information more quickly and accurately is no longer a dream but a reality.

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Whatever brought you here, the approach is the same

Whether an adult is having extraordinary difficulties functioning due to trauma or underlying causes, or is simply trying to cope with a demanding lifestyle, NACD offers services that can truly elicit change in a unique way.

Rebuilding function

Adults recovering from brain injury, or living with lifelong difficulties they were told to accept, from learning disabilities to processing problems. The brain remains changeable across the lifespan, and an assessment-first program targets exactly what needs to develop. NACD has worked with adults since 1979.

Raising the ceiling

Professionals, parents, and lifelong learners with nothing “wrong,” who want more: sharper focus, better memory, faster learning, clearer thinking under a demanding load. Your program targets the processing your work and life actually run on.

NACD provides neurodevelopmental assessments and individual programs that allow adults to improve their cognitive function, drawing on a toolbox of more than 1,000 techniques. NACD provides strategies to bring about fundamental improvements in an adult’s ability to think and reason. What could be more life changing than that?

Recovering from a brain injury? NACD has worked with brain-injured adults for decades. Told years ago to live with a learning disability? That label is developable too.

How To Get Started

Three steps, starting free

1 · Free application and interview 2 · Evaluation and your program 3 · Coaching and follow-ups, three times a year
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Questions

Common questions from adults

A set of daily activities designed specifically for you after an assessment maps how you process auditory and visual information, hold and use working memory, and think through problems. You run the program yourself, with coaching and support from NACD, and it is updated as you progress.
No. The brain remains changeable across the entire lifespan. In the past it was not believed possible to improve someone’s cognitive function; we know now that it is quite possible to do so, at any age, with the right input delivered consistently.
Yes. Many NACD adults come with nothing “wrong”: professionals and parents coping with demanding lives who want better focus, memory, and clarity. The assessment finds where your processing is now, and the program raises it from there.
Yes. NACD has worked with brain-injured adults for decades, with programs built from how you are functioning now and what the next developmental step is. Your medical team stays your medical team, and NACD’s program coordinates with the care you’re receiving.
Programs are built to fit a working adult’s real life. What matters most is consistency: focused daily activities, done with intensity, compound over time. Your program is designed around your schedule, your goals, and your starting point.
Two things: individualization and coaching. An app gives everyone the same games; NACD builds your program from your own assessment and adjusts it as you change, with real staff who know you and answer your questions. The target is your overall function, not your score on the app.
How you take in and hold auditory and visual information, your short-term and working memory, your processing speed, and how you think and reason, along with your goals. You leave with a clear picture of your own function and a program targeted at improving it.
No. NACD works with adults across the world. Evaluations happen at evaluation sites and remotely, and your coaching and program support are available wherever you live.
Every adult is different, and we do not make promises. What we can say is that input compounds day after day, and progress is measured concretely at follow-up evaluations, so you always know what is moving and what the program targets next.
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