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Brain Plasticity Opens New Doors For Struggling Learners
How to Explain Neuroplasticity to Your Mom "Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.” Norman Doidge The scientific consensus on how much the brain can change - and how that impacts learning and...
Brain Change Miracles Are Everywhere
Neuroplasticity Examples - How the Brain Learns and Transforms The human brain is a fascinating organ. While it makes up only about 2 percent of our body mass, it uses approximately 20 percent of the energy it produces. For decades, scientists believed that its...
Brain Change and Potential for Growth
Can the Brain Change? At Gemm Learning we often refer to brain plasticity when speaking to families. It is the reason our software has been so effective as well as the inspiration for its creation. Miriam-Webster defines neuroplasticity or brain plasticity as the...
Michael Merzenich Wins the Kavli Prize
Co-founder of Fast ForWord Honored For Work on Neuroplasticity Michael Merzenich, co-founder of Fast ForWord, has won the $1 million Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which administers the prize, announced earlier this month...
Neuroplasticity (or Brain Plasticity) Is Real
Before neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, was discovered, early psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational professionals were baffled by the existence of learning disabilities such as auditory processing disorder (APD), dyslexia and ADHD. For many years, such...
The 3 Big Breakthroughs in the History of Remedial Reading
Reading Instruction Has Come a Long Way Since Word Lists and Dick & Jane While the reading proficiency stats still make dismal reading -- 30% of 8th graders are still not reading at a basic level according to US Education stats -- there have been tremendous...
Harnessing Neuroplasticity To Narrow Achievement Gaps
Brain Plasticity In Early Childhood To "Inoculate" Children From Learning Delays. In a recent New York Times article, columnist Nicholas Kristof wonders whether we are spending adequate resources on early education. We believe the answer to this question is a...
The Value of Brain Training For Reading
When tutoring just isn’t enough to make a difference When a child has auditory processing disorder or language processing disorder parents will very often get specialist help and try to address the underlying deficit or delay. However, when confronted with a reading...
The Power of Brain Plasticity
Neuroplasticity: The Ability of the Brain to Change in Response to Stimuli Brain plasticity refers to fact that the brain is adaptive -- it self-organizes, meaning that if exercised appropriately it can adapt and change for the better. This new understanding of the...
The Brain That Changes Itself by Dr. Doidge
Norman Doidge, the author of The Brain that Changes Itself, has written about Mike Merzenich, one of the creators of the Fast ForWord family of programs. Fast ForWord Software On his website www.normandoidge.com this is what he has to say about Fast ForWord, Gemm...