Trend: Directly addressing (not just accommodating) learning disabilities

By SharpBrains | December 1, 2014

New take on learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties: change the brain (Komo News): “A new school in Red­mond might change the way we think about learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties. Instead of teach­ing kids how to accom­mo­date a dif­fi­cul­ty, the school hopes to actu­al­ly change the brains of stu­dents, elim­i­nat­ing the dis­abil­i­ty altogether.

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Update: The Future of Preventive Brain Medicine

By SharpBrains | January 27, 2012

Time for Sharp­Brains’ Jan­u­ary 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing in this occa­sion mul­ti­ple thought-pro­­vok­ing per­spec­tives on how emerg­ing neu­ro­science can and should make us rethink pre­vail­ing prac­tices in edu­ca­tion, healthy aging and pre­ven­tive med­i­cine.   Fea­tured Per­spec­tives: The Future of Pre­ven­tive Brain Med­i­cine: Break­ing Down the Cog­ni­tion & Alzheimer’s Dis­ease Alpha­bet Soup, by Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa When 1 +…

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When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscalculia and Working Memory

By Dr. Tracy Alloway | January 25, 2012 |

Jacob’s moth­er writes that ‘Jacob, 10-years-old, still strug­gles with num­ber bonds to 10. Learn­ing to tell the time is still slow – he has not mas­tered half-past. Although he man­aged to learn his 5x tables because we prac­ticed all sum­mer, this has now gone’. Jacob has dyscal­cu­lia, a math dis­abil­i­ty where stu­dents strug­gle to learn or…

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