What are Your Five Wishes?

FIVE WISHES for 2009 WORKSHEET  from  http://www.lovingsilence.org
Here is a valuable guide to asking five questions to clarify your intentions for 2009.
The Invitation
Are you willing to receive the gift of the question and use it to create a more fulfilled 2009?
If you are, transport yourself in your imagination to the end of the year 2009.
Imagine it [...]

3 Ways Your Child’s Emotions Impact Learning

As we understand that the brain is plastic and can change, research has also proven to us that the approach used and methods involved must elicit positive feedback from the child to engage the act of learning.
In other words, if the child is not actively excited and engaged with the learning, very little to [...]

Learning Skills 101 – Auditory Processing

 

To Review:
So far, we have been discussing what learning skills are and how they impact a student on a daily basis.  If you recall, we stated that learning skills are the underlying mental skills formally known as attention, visual/auditory processing, memory, processing, word attack and auditory analysis.  Most of our children experience these skills [...]

What is BrainSkills P2?

Last week I introduced you to BrainSkills.  You received the nuts and bolts of the program.  This week we will look at the program from the perspective of how this can help students, which students will benefit and what does the program look like anyway?
To review, we have been discussing how we learn.  How our [...]

What is BrainSkills?

ENHANCED LEARNING SKILLS FOR KIDS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
BRAINSKILLS
PROCESSING AND COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT ONLINE PROGRAM
The BrainSkills Core Exercise Program
The brain can be exercised to improve mental (cognitive) function. Stronger cognitive skills can make learning easier and faster. 
Not all brain training is created equal.  Mental activity in general is a good thing. Doing crossword puzzles and any type [...]

BrainScience Podcast with Ginger Campbell, MD

B R A I N S C I E N C E          P O D C A S T
wi t h Gi n g e r C amp b e l l , MD
Episode #54:
Michael Merzenich on Neuroplasticity
Aired February 13, 2009
 
"If there's an aspect of this that's important, I think it is the lesson that [...]

Brain Plasticity

The Enhanced Learning Skills System is based on Brain Plasticity.  So what is it?  It does not mean that our brains are made of plastic.  What it does mean is that our brains have the ability to grow and develop over time.  Our brains continually learn every day.  
When new information is repeated over and [...]

ELSK Teleseminar/podcast

This week, I have created the very first ELSK Teleseminar/podcast.  I am hoping to create many more of these telephone interviews/discussions.  These will provide education and awareness around the existing solutions for students struggling to learn or working too hard for their grades! 
Listen Now

Statistics as discussed on the teleseminar:

Every 29 seconds another student gives [...]

Anticipated Levels of Intelligence

Did you know that our society has a preset of anticipated levels of intelligence?  For example, average intelligence is considered to be around 100.  Children with Learning Disabilities usually measure in at around 90-93 (Gajar, 1979; Webster & Schenck, 1978).  However, if you will agree with me that a lot of children with learning disabilities [...]

A Good Reading Program Must…

Teach underlying skills
Since sounds (not syllables, blends, full words or rhyming combinations) are the key that unlocks our English writing system, successful readers must be taught to segment (pull apart), blend (put together), and analyze words at the sound (phonemic) level.
Use a sound to code basis
Good reading programs teach the sound code for [...]

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