Brain Blueprint Assessment
See Exactly How Your Child’s Brain Learns
The Student Brain Blueprint helps you and your child’s coach understand how your child learns. It’s included in the Student Foundation Program and is completed with the coach in session 2. You receive a detailed report, and the results help finalize the coaching plan.
Scientifically Valid Assessment
Completed Online in 1 Hour
Included in Every Coaching Program
If Your Child Is Struggling, Stop Guessing Why
Stop
Forcing a square peg into a round hole.
Stop
The learning gap from growing wider.
Stop
Feeling frustrated and helpless.
Truly Understand and Support Your Child’s Learning Needs
The Kaizen Brain Blueprint Assessment is designed to help identify why your child may not be reaching their full potential.
It’s a gift to truly understand how your child’s mind learns.
Experience the “Aha!” moment of realization and relief that puts your child on the path to success in school and beyond.
Simple Insights:
Helping parents, teachers, and students quickly discover how their brain works best to take immediate action.
Match Teaching to Learning:
Harmonize your child’s learning environments so educators understand how to support their needs.
Unlock Their Full Potential:
Reduce learning frustration, anxiety, and inefficiency to help your child realize their goals in school and beyond.
Success is Knowing Who You Are As A Learner
Children who find the most success in life are not always the ones with the strongest skills. They are the ones who know their strengths, how to use them, and how to ask for help when they need it.
Kaizen’s Brain Blueprint Assessment helps families identify areas of giftedness, learning challenges and cognitive strengths to support their child who might otherwise be struggling in and out of school.
Brain Blueprints Administered
Kaizen Certified Coaches
Strategies to Help
Students, Parents, and Adults Coached
The Brain Blueprint is built on a research-validated online cognitive test developed by neuroscientists at a leading U.S. medical school, validated in peer-reviewed research, and normed on more than 100,000 people ages 8 to 21.
It is the heart of how Kaizen coaches: objective cognitive data on how your child learns best, translated by our team into plain language and a coaching plan.
In the Student Foundation Program, the Brain Blueprint helps turn insight about your child’s learning into practical strategies to use at school and at home.
The underlying cognitive test is evidence-based, valid, reliable and norm-referenced, with peer-reviewed research behind it.
Fun Fact: The science behind the Brain Blueprint was used in NASA’s Twins Study.
Now that’s out of this world!
“The assessment gave me practical insight...”
“The assessment from my Brain Blueprint gave me practical insight around my cognitive strengths and areas to support which helped me immensely in tailoring my approach to learning”.
“I immediately improved my academic performance...”
“The level of detail and personalized feedback from the assessment allowed me to make adjustments in my study habits that immediately improved my academic performance”.
“Yep, this is me on paper...”
“Yep, this is me on paper. I always knew I had some difficulties, but I didn’t understand why”.
We Assess The Following 10 Skills To Uncover How Your Child Learns Best:
Reasoning
- Abstract
- Verbal
- Spatial
Speed
- Speed
- Visual Motor
Memory
- Verbal
- Visual
Executive Functions
- Attention
- Working Memory
- Flexible Thinking
Getting Started is as Easy as 1-2-3!
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Start the Conversation
Book a free consultation and tell us what you’re seeing. The Student Foundation Program includes the Brain Blueprint in coaching session 2.
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Complete the Brain Blueprint with your coach
Your child completes the assessment with their coach in session 2 of the Student Foundation Program. “It’s like a series of puzzles and actually really fun.”
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Get Your Results!
Kaizen’s Director will review your assessment with you so you have a clear understanding of the results.
Imagine If You Had An Instruction Manual For Your Child’s Brain!
As luck and science would have it, the Brain Blueprint provides you with a guide to the inner workings of your child’s uniquely amazing brain.
It identifies how your child learns by measuring ten underlying skills across the four domains of complex reasoning, executive functions, memory and processing speed.
These ten underlying skills drive all areas of learning and the four domains act as the legs of a chair. If one or more legs are wobbly, the chair becomes unstable.
Knowing which legs need support and using the right tools for the job, that chair can support a moose!
Through careful analysis, Kaizen’s Director provides personalized strategies by subject matter, approaches for improving homework efficiency, and recommendations to share with your child’s learning team.
You will also gain access to a toolkit of more than 500 research-based learning strategies to provide ongoing support for your child in the way they need it most for an entire year.
Once your child unlocks their new learning superpowers, they will be on their way to becoming confident, capable and self-directed learners. That’s a win for everyone!
Without data-informed insight into your child’s learning variability, you are left guessing or using a frustrating trial-and-error approach.
Every student learns differently. The Brain Blueprint helps your child’s coach build on their strengths and choose strategies that fit the skills they’re working on.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a list of answers to our most commonly asked questions. If you can’t find the answer to your question, please contact us and we’ll get right back to you.
Is this the same as a psychoeducational assessment?
No. The Brain Blueprint does not replace a psychoeducational assessment, but it provides valuable information in plain language so that parents, coaches, and teachers can understand your child’s unique learning needs and how their strengths affect school. Many families use it as the practical first step, and we help you decide if a full psychoeducational assessment is a smart next move.
What exactly is the Brain Blueprint Assessment?
The Brain Blueprint is Kaizen’s cognitive assessment. At its core is an hour-long online assessment developed by neuroscientists at a leading U.S. medical school, measuring 10 cognitive skills across 4 categories: reasoning, executive functions, memory, and speed. Just like a fingerprint, every result is unique, and it shows how your child learns most efficiently and what support they need to succeed.
Why is this assessment the most efficient option for cognitive screening?
A full cognitive evaluation from a psychologist often has wait times upwards of 6 months and costs between $1,500 and $5,000. The Brain Blueprint, included in the Student Foundation Program, where it is completed with the coach in session 2, is a practical first step: it can guide support right away, and it can help identify which practitioner specialty might be most appropriate if a full evaluation is needed later.
Will this assessment indicate if my child is gifted?
No. The Brain Blueprint measures 10 cognitive skills and will show if your child excels in one or more areas. That information can be shared with educators and other experts on your child’s support team to decide whether further exploration for giftedness is warranted.
Will this assessment indicate if my child has a learning disability?
No. Only an evaluation by a licensed clinician can lead to a diagnosis of a learning disability. The Brain Blueprint shows where your child is struggling relative to peers, which gives you solid information for next steps and informed decisions, and we will point you to the right professionals if that is what the data suggests.
What is the difference between a learning difference and a learning disability?
Clinicians and schools usually use “learning disability” to indicate a diagnosis that qualifies for accommodations. Many parents, students, and teachers, including our team at Kaizen, prefer “learning difference” because it conveys your child’s ability to succeed.
What is involved in completing the Brain Blueprint Assessment?
Your child completes the Brain Blueprint online with their coach in session 2 of the Student Foundation Program. There are NO reading passages and NO math computations; students describe it as “a series of puzzles” and usually say it was actually fun. It takes about 45 to 60 minutes with brain breaks built in, and it is followed by a one on one results review with our team.
What is included in this Brain Blueprint Assessment?
As part of your Kaizen coaching program you receive: the full cognitive assessment across reasoning, executive functions, memory, and speed; a plain-language learner summary for your child’s learning team; a one on one results consultation with specific recommendations for your child; and personalized strategies your coach builds the program around.
How does this assessment improve academic outcomes (grades)?
The Brain Blueprint shows how your child learns best, where they need support, how that plays out subject by subject, and which evidence-based strategies fit. Your child’s coach then builds those strategies into weekly coaching, which is where grades start to move.
How was this assessment developed?
The underlying cognitive test was developed by physicians and researchers at a leading U.S. medical school and has been tested with more than 100,000 participants worldwide. It is normed and validated, which means results are interpreted against an appropriate peer group for an accurate picture of strengths and needs.
How is this different from free online quizzes?
Most online quizzes are neither normed nor validated, so their results can be misleading. The Brain Blueprint’s underlying test is fully normed and validated for ages 8 to 21, with peer-reviewed research behind it, and your results come with an educator’s interpretation, not just a score.
Are my results confidential?
Yes. We are committed to the confidentiality, integrity and security of your family’s information. Results belong to you, are never sold or shared, and are used only to support your child’s coaching.
Empowering Brains for Learning & Life
We help kids, teens, and adults reach their true potential through neuroscience and coaching their unique strengths and needs for lifelong success.