learning disabilities

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.

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 HERE.

  • 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: [Read more…] about Com­ing soon: Vir­tu­al World Tour at the fron­tier of applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, edu­ca­tion and learn­ing difficulties

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

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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 to autism and learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties. [Read more…] about One in eight chil­dren in India aged 2–9 may have neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal disorders

Explore the latest in cognitive remediation and addressing learning disabilities

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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, pre­sent­ed plans to bet­ter equip 100+ schools help­ing stu­dents with spe­cial needs.

These pre­sen­ta­tions took place at the 2016 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Rein­vent­ing Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age (Decem­ber 6–8th, 2016).

Trend: Directly addressing (not just accommodating) learning disabilities

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brain_constructionNew 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. [Read more…] about Trend: Direct­ly address­ing (not just accom­mo­dat­ing) learn­ing disabilities

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

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Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young

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 that under­lie a num­ber of spe­cif­ic learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties and disabilities.

I did so based on my jour­ney to over­come my own severe spe­cif­ic learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties [Read more…] about Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young: Every kid should prac­tice stress reduc­tion and tar­get­ed cog­ni­tive exer­cis­es at school

Book review of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined

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Ungifted_KaufmanJust 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, noth­ing has been shown to pre­vent the pathol­o­gy of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. Accord­ing to this mindset…why bother?

Well, what if such men­tal frame­work was wrong or, worse, mis­lead­ing? [Read more…] about Book review of Ungift­ed: Intel­li­gence Redefined