This intervention program includes a series of paper and pencil tasks that gradually increase in levels of difficulty and abstraction. Each series focuses on a different cognitive skill, creating systematic, persistent and structured conditions to engage learners in problem-solving by developing their ability to understand and elaborate information.

FIE aims to close learning gaps, helping learners to avoid mistakes by enhancing their learning skills. Students are taught new ways of thinking by completing tasks in areas such as comparison, classification, analysis and synthesis, orientation in space and time, and hypothetical reasoning. Through the use of FIE, students gain language and knowledge about their cognitive processes that help them make better decisions, in the classroom and throughout their lives.

Cognitive Enrichment I, II, III Courses (formerly Standard I, II, III)

FIE’s Cognitive Enrichment training program is designed generally for ages 10 through adult. Participants receive training in the theoretical basis for Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment. and in the materials and didactics of the first four Instruments from the IE Program: 

Cognitive Enrichment I (formerly Standard I) includes Organization of Dots, Comparisons, Analytic Perception, and Orientation in Space. The foundational theories of Structural Cognitive Modifiability, Mediated Learning Experience, Cognitive Map, and the Goals of Instrumental Enrichment.

Cognitive Enrichment II (formerly Standard II) provides training in the mediation of Categorization, Illustrations, Family Relations, Temporal (Time) Relations, and Instructions. These tools help students and adults with important academic and job skills.

Cognitive Enrichment III (formerly Standard III) offers Orientation in Space II, Numerical Progressions, Transitive Relations, Syllogisms, and Representational Stencil Design. These five tools are cognitively challenging and help create new neural networks for life and learning.

CogniKey: Basic 1, 2 (formerly Basic I and Basic 2)

The CogniKey: Basic cognitive intervention program is designed for younger learners or for learners who are not yet ready for Cognitive Enrichment instruments. CogniKey: Basic is deliberately free of specific subject matter, yet the tasks are intended to be readily transferable to all educational and everyday life situations. These instruments may be taught in the classroom, in an after-school enrichment setting, or used as a part of a clinical therapy program.

The CogniKey: Basic instruments are unique. Not only do they teach vitally important cognitive strategies – such as how to gather information, strategize, compare and problem solve – but they also teach children cognition behind emotions. Thought-provoking and creative, this course delves into topics such as how to move from feeling empathy to turning it into action and how to prevent violence. CogniKey: Basic not only teaches how to learn, but also how to infer, act, and behave with thoughtful intelligence – even how to be a friend and a contributing member of society.

CogniKey: Basic consists of 11 Instruments:

CogniKey: Basic 1: Organization of Dots, Compare and Discover the Absurd 1, Orientation in Space, Unit to Group, and Identify Emotions

CogniKey: Basic 2: Compare and Discover the Absurd 2, Empathy to Action, Think and Learn to Prevent Violence, TriChannel Attentional Learning, Know and Identify, and Learn to Ask Questions for Reading Comprehension. 

Tactile Course

Students with ADHD often struggle with processing excessive amounts of information, leading to difficulty accurately receiving and processing information.

Tactile Instrumental Enrichment is a powerful educational tool that utilizes touch and movement to aid students in comprehending their surroundings in a systematic and comprehensive way. It encourages the development of critical thinking abilities and improves overall cognitive growth.

FIE Tactile provides a solution by utilizing touch and movement to help retrain the brain to systematically and logically explore, structure and process information. This is achieved by developing skills to create mental images and comparing new images to pre-existing images, which enhances cognitive abilities such as exploration, logical reasoning, and hypothetical thinking.

Ultimately, this approach fosters more structured and efficient learning processes. Further, the visualization skills that are developed in Tactile positively impact reading comprehension and listening comprehension.

Pre-requisite: FIE Standard 1 or FIE Basic 1

Digital Course

Digital Instrument Enrichment: Modern Tools for Mediators is designed for graduates of FIE Standard I who are interested in learning the new digital version of the FIE Standard I tools and how to effectively integrate them into classroom and clinical practice. The training offers an overview of the FIE Digital program’s design, guidance on navigating the FIE digital platform, and hands-on workshops focusing on the digital versions of the Organization of Dots, Orientation in Space-1, Comparisons, and Analytic Perception instruments.

Pre-requisite: FIE Standard 1