Tag: Learning
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The Wisdom of Questioning
When an individual or group blindly accepts a concept as truth without questioning, we might say they “drank the Kool-Aid“. This saying is based on an unfortunate incident in the past where a large group of people died following their troubled leader’s orders. Blind acceptance without reason is often a fool-hardy venture and sometimes even…
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Improving Working Memory and Attention
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Working memory is the brain function that allows us to hold information in memory long enough to manipulate or perform some action on it in order to solve a problem or come up with a response. It is considered an “executive function“, which is a set of cognitive abilities that allow us to plan, organize,…
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Learning Differences & Higher Education
Getting into college is not always the biggest challenge for students with learning differences. It’s the adjustment to college level work and a more independent lifestyle that can be the greatest hurdle. Picking the Right College The first step in successful transition to higher education is picking the right college. Every college and university is…
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Evaluating Learning Differences
What do you do when you know a child is bright, but their teachers don’t seem to realize it? Maybe the marks they bring home don’t reflect their true capabilities. Or perhaps they seem to be falling further and further behind their classmates. One possibility is that the child may have a learning disability. Children…