A Unique 501(c)3 Nonprofit that helps improve lives

Our Work

Everyone Can Succeed has been engaged in early childhood program development and original neuroscience research for over ten years. Formerly, Responsible Education and Development, our 501(c)3 nonprofit creates, tests, validates and delivers programs that advance young children’s Executive Function and academic performance. We also develop and test non-pharmaceutical interventions to boost cognitive performance in stroke and dementia patients. The objectives of this work are to improve short-term memory, visuospatial processing, and speech.

An Innovative Cognitive Skills nonprofit

From Stroke to Dementia

ECS has created and tested a unique intervention that helped boost cognitive performance in right-hemisphere ischemic stroke patients. It improved short-term memory, visuospatial processing, and sequencing skills. Following the success we experienced with stroke patients in our IRB-approved trial, an MD Gerontologist suggested that we work towards developing a methodology that would be helpful to dementia patients. We are engaged in that work now. It is unfunded, but it has great promise. We've enabled a frontotemporal dementia patient to articulate words she could not say previously. We have also helped her visuospatial processing. For expanded activities and necessary imaging, funding is essential. Comments from a number of patients who were included in our stroke study are shown in the accompanying video.

Stroke Patient Comments

From Stroke to Dementia

Boosting Executive Function and Math Outcomes

America has been mired in a math education crisis since it was first called out by the U.S. Department of Education fifteen years ago. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results show that only 26% of students entering high school are proficient in math. The reading results are just about as awful at 29%. There is more to this than just low math scores. Living in a high-tech STEM world, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, it’s mathematics that is especially important. You can’t have science, technology, and engineering without it. Healthy math outcomes are crucial to America’s competitiveness.

The Power of Math

A little-known fact is that it’s early math skills, not early reading, that is the best predictor of later academic success. This is according to research conducted at eight leading universities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Their work is published in the journal Developmental Psychology. Why is math the best predictor? It’s because of math’s power building children’s Executive Function skills.

Everyone Can Succeed has done years of research and development coupling the neuroscience of Executive Function with the world’s best practices in early childhood math. The result is an effective instructional method that also transforms the Asian language math advantage to a visual system so that American children can benefit too. In ten to twelve hours, the program teaches preschool children advanced knowledge and skills in number identification, addition and subtraction, understanding of Base-10, and place value out to the billions. Educators who welcomed evaluation at their schools speak very highly of the program.

Delivery of the math program is unique because it is provided to children by their parents. Our partner company, Ceremax Inc. teaches parents how to instruct their four-to-six-year-old children to advance both their math skills and cognitive development. Ceremax also provides American parents the free weekly education web show Smart Parents Smart Kids. If you have young children or grandchildren, the show is definitely worth checking out!