Budding Brilliance is dedicated to creating a tailored educational home and school environment for every child, starting between 2 and 6 years old. Cognitive psychologists know that during this crucial stage in development, it is possible to learn a person’s intellectual capabilities. It’s also paramount during these years to create a supportive space where children are free to learn about the world in ways that are actually complementary to their mental preferences.

How The Edge Learning Toy Gives Your Child an Edge

The Edge Learning Toy opens the door to understanding how extremely young children think and learn. Most teenagers or adults have taken cognitive assessments or standardized testing which shed some light into their personal strengths, weakness, traits, and preferences. It’s easy to do this as we get older because we are so much more capable of following complex directions and expressing ourselves to someone qualified to analyze our responses. Asking very young children to try to verbalize how they are thinking, feeling, and understanding the world is not reliable or accurate.

The Edge Learning Toy is more effective than any other widely available early childhood cognitive assessment tool because it naturally appeals to young kids, and is designed to work with their rudimentary expressive abilities. Children are entertained by a computer-animated cat on The Edge Learning Toy app who invites them to perform different kinds of tasks with colored objects of varying sizes. 

This combination of modern and simple technology is crucial. At the level of development, it’s been proven time and again that children need to be able to physically manipulate objects in the real world for their minds to become engaged and responsive. It’s how they process information and communicate with the reality outside of themselves. The app registers everything they do, and computes their actions to prepare a detailed report of where they showed the greatest and lowest levels of proficiency. 

A Dynamic View of Intelligence

The important thing to remember is that The Edge Learning Toy does not measure intelligence as it is typically thought of on a linear scale, such as a traditional IQ test. It doesn’t care how many cultural facts they have memorized, or how well they articulate them. Your child’s interactions with The Edge Learning Toy show us how they interpret information, instructions, and sensory input.

​The best way to think about this is how psychologist Howard Gardner outlined his theory of multiple intelligences in the book Frames of Mind. He posits that intelligence should be measured in many distinct, but related, frames for interpreting sensory information. He categorized human intelligence into many groups, among them spatial, musical, logical/mathematical, kinesthetic, and linguistic. With this information, you will be in a position to help him or her build proficiency from their strengths, and fortify their weaknesses.

​No two children have exactly the same skills or learning styles, and that’s why an individual learning assessment that measures your child's learning channels is so important to paving the way for a life that is easy, rewarding, and meaningful for them. The Edge Learning Toy will guide you toward playful and educational activities for child/parent interaction, child self play and group play with other children. You will also receive direction on toys and services that are already available for purchase by other companies. You will be able to directly impact and improve your child’s competitive advantages in life with Budding Brilliance.