Brain School: Stories of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their Cogn

by Howard Eaton

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"This book is about children who struggled in school and subsequently changed their cognitive functioning and altered their lives. They struggled with learning disabilities, and, in many cases, attention disorders as well. This book is about their resiliance and determination to improve their lives. It is about their parents, who resisted accepting the common opinion that cognitive functioning is fixed, focusing instead on giving their children futures filled with possibilities. It is about show more a cognitive functioning remediation approach called the Arrowsmith program."--Introduction, XIII. show less

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AmberA Howard Eaton's "Brain School" offers an in-depth look into the Arrowsmith Program (for students with learning disabilities) described in Chapter 2 of Norman Doidge's "The Brain That Changes Itself."

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This book offers a look into an option for students with learning disabilities that is unlike any other. Rather than accommodating, or "working around," their learning disabilities (by getting extra help, extra time, and having scribes, etc.), which is what's done in most schools, these students are rewiring their brains so that they don't need that extra help. Accommodations can work while students are in school, but what happens after they graduate? The approach described in Brain School makes much more sense, and it's surprising to learn that what appears to be a cutting-edge program is actually more than 30 years old. Anyone who has learning difficulties, or knows someone with them, should read this book. The stories in it are show more inspirational! show less

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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371.909711Society, government, & cultureEducationSchools and their activities; special educationEducation of special classesBiography; History By PlaceNorth America
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LC4706 .C32 .E28EducationSpecial aspects of educationSpecial aspects of educationEducation of special classes of personsExceptional children and youth. SpecialChildren and youth with disabilities. Learning

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