Coming soon: Virtual World Tour at the frontier of applied neuroplasticity, education and learning difficulties

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Heads-up about Bar­bara Arrow­smith-Young’s upcom­ing Vir­tu­al World Tour to dis­cuss her expe­ri­ence, her book and her schools at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, edu­ca­tion and help­ing kids with learn­ing difficulties.

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  • Sep­tem­ber 14th 2020, 6.00 AM EDT and 8.00 PM EDT
  • Octo­ber 20th 2020, 7.00 AM EDT and 8.00 PM EDT
  • Novem­ber 12th 2020, 7.00 AM EDT and 8.00 PM EDT

Talk descrip­tion:

  • Learn about Barbara’s jour­ney of dis­cov­ery, the lines of research she com­bined and the out­comes achieved over 40 years
  • Gain an insight into the prin­ci­ples of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and the fac­tors lead­ing to brain change
  • Find out how learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties do not need to be lifelong
  • Hear the lat­est research into neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, learn­ing and Arrowsmith’s inno­v­a­tive edu­ca­tion­al approach

About Barbara Arrowsmith Young:

The gen­e­sis of the Arrow­smith Pro­gram of cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es lies in Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young’s jour­ney of dis­cov­ery and inno­va­tion to over­come her own severe learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties. Diag­nosed in grade one as hav­ing a men­tal block, which today would have been iden­ti­fied as mul­ti­ple learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties, she read and wrote every­thing back­wards, had trou­ble pro­cess­ing con­cepts in lan­guage, con­tin­u­ous­ly got lost and was phys­i­cal­ly unco­or­di­nat­ed. Bar­bara even­tu­al­ly learnt to read and write from left to right and mask a num­ber of the symp­toms of her learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties through hero­ic effort, how­ev­er she con­tin­ued through­out her edu­ca­tion­al career to have dif­fi­cul­ty with spe­cif­ic aspects of learn­ing. Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young holds both a B.A.Sc. in Child Stud­ies from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Guelph, and a Master’s degree in School Psy­chol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (Ontario Insti­tute for Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion). After her under­grad­u­ate stud­ies were com­plet­ed Bar­bara worked as the Head Teacher in the lab preschool at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Guelph for two years where she began to observe learn­ing dif­fer­ences in preschool children.