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

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. Pre­sen­ta­tions are not­ed in EDT time (Toron­to, Cana­da). Please use this time zone con­vert­er to see the time in your region. Learn more and Register…

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One in eight children in India aged 2–9 may have neurodevelopmental disorders

___ 1 in 8 kids in 2–9 age group may have devel­op­men­tal deficits  (Times of India): “Almost one in eight Indi­an chil­dren aged two to nine may have at least one neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal dis­or­der, states a study pub­lished in PLOS Med­i­cine jour­nal on Wednes­day. Neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal dis­or­ders include a wide range of issues rang­ing from visu­al and hear­ing impairment…

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Explore the latest in cognitive remediation and addressing learning disabilities

Expo Day: Hap­py Neu­ron and Arrow­smith Pro­gram from Sharp­Brains Dur­ing Expo Day select­ed Sum­mit Part­ners and Spon­sors show­cased their lat­est ini­tia­tives and solu­tions. Franck Tarpin-Bernard, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Sci­en­tif­ic Brain Train­ing (SBT), dis­cussed new part­ner­ships fol­low­ing their ISO 13485 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for med­ical devices — cog­ni­tive reme­di­a­tion. Jes­si­ca Poulin, Strate­gic Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er at the Arrow­smith Program,…

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Trend: Directly addressing (not just accommodating) learning disabilities

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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Barbara Arrowsmith Young: Every kid should practice stress reduction and targeted cognitive exercises at school

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? As dis­cussed in The Brain that Changes Itself and in my own book, The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, I launched the Arrow­smith Pro­gram, a suite of cog­ni­tive exercises–now in more that 60 schools–designed to strength­en weak cog­ni­tive areas…

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Book review of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined

Just a cou­ple weeks ago I had a dis­cus­sion with sev­er­al psy­chol­o­gists and neu­rol­o­gists who seemed to share the opin­ion that “brain fit­ness” is a mean­ing­less con­cept and pur­suit. On the one hand, they thought, intel­li­gence is a fixed trait and no inter­ven­tion has shown so far to reli­ably increase it. On the oth­er hand,…

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