It is a very radical and ancient idea. We can learn to live free from anger. Well, without believing in it and getting caught by it. We will feel it from time to time, but we can loosen its grip and minimize its damage, to ourselves and to those we love. Anger is a hot Continue Reading
Author: Marian
Explaining & Understanding
I learned something very important yesterday. It was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportions. I am still marveling… I was explaining something to a friend. I probably spend more time than most people explaining things, and I tend to think of myself as pretty good at it. But I failed completely. I was explaining a Continue Reading
Neurodiversity & Learning
When I came up with the word “ThinkPrint,” I was speaking to a group of teachers about how to understand the test results from a child’s neuropsychological or psychoeducational evaluation. I was showing them the graphs of scores of children with different learning and other issues. The different patterns of strength and weakness across the Continue Reading
Some Very Special Schools
Here are links to some wonderful schools: Eagle Hill School: https://www.eaglehillschool.org Franklin Academy: https://fa-ct.org Green Chimneys: http://www.greenchimneys.org Harvey School: https://www.harveyschool.org Kildonan School: https://www.kildonan.org Landmark School: https://www.landmarkschool.org Mead School: https://www.meadschool.org Villa Maria: http://villamariaedu.org Windward School: http://thewindwardschool.org Wooster School: https://www.woosterschool.org
Memory Loss: What You Need to Know
We all forget things. More things, it seems, as we get older. But when you are concerned about memory loss, it is not at all helpful when others are dismissive – “Oh, that happens to me all the time!” or even competitive – “That’s nothing! The other day, I couldn’t remember my own phone number!” Continue Reading
Sensory & Motor Issues
Sensory issues, sometimes referred to as Sensory Integration or Sensory Processing Disorder, tend to occur along with other issues. Problems with the Sensory system most often involve either being too sensitive (hypersensitive) or not sensitive enough (hyposensitivity) to specific sensory experience, in any of the senses (see Brain Basics). Children who are hypersensitive may be Continue Reading
Learning & ThinkPrint
There are as many kinds of learning problems as there are learners. Each of us is wired differently in terms of learning. Some of us learn better verbally – by listening, reading, and talking, others learn best visually – by seeing and drawing things, and others by direct sensory experience and movement, like natural dancers, Continue Reading
ThinkPrint & Positive Psychology
ThinkPrint is a word I made up to describe what I do: help people understand what kind of mind they have. Your ThinkPrint, like your fingerprint, is unique to you, the result of how your brain is wired up. Understanding your mind – your strengths, preferences, tendencies and vulnerabilities – enables you to use it Continue Reading
Traumatic Brain Injury
The brain is well protected inside the bony encasement of the skull, cushioned by a surrounding layer of spinal fluid. But sufficient force can cause damage to delicate brain tissue, and even minor injury can result in impairment of cognitive function and disturbance or mood and behavior. The most common causes of traumatic brain injury Continue Reading
How Attention Works (and Why it Often Doesn’t)
Attention is a more complex process than we think. Wait, sorry, I wasn’t paying attention… What were you saying? In this complex modern world of ours, we are very rarely doing only one thing at a time. We read the paper while we eat, we talk on the phone while we drive, and, while we Continue Reading