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Show #108 Dr. Stuart Brown Part II- Success, Practice, and Grandparents
In today's show, I talk a little bit about the importance of working memory, and then we hear the second part of the interview with Dr. Stuart Brown, as we finish our discussion about the importance of play and imagination in developing critical thinking and social skills. I've also recently reworked my Guide for getting Good Grades into a PDF, available here for download. The picture to the right is from our recent trip to the newly renovated Smithsonian Museum of American History, where they have a fantastic exhibit on science, invention and play. We have to remember that so much ...
Show #107- Dr. Stuart Brown- National Institute for Play
Dr. Stuart Brown is a physician and psychiatrist who has been studying the importance of play for many years, and is the founder of The National Institute for Play. He's written a wonderful new book, entitled "Play: How it Shapes The Brain, opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul" which should be on every parent and teacher's book shelf. Over the course of his clinical career, he interviewed thousands of people to capture their play profiles. His cataloging of their profiles demonstrated the active presence of play in the accomplishments of the very successful and also identified negative consequences ...
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Show 109: Kevin Carroll – The Rules of the Red Rubber Ball
Welcome Back! We took a bit of a haitus, in part due to construction going on at...
Show #108 Dr. Stuart Brown Part II- Success, Practice, and Grandparents
In today’s show, I talk a little bit about the importance of working memory,...
Show #107- Dr. Stuart Brown- National Institute for Play
Dr. Stuart Brown is a physician and psychiatrist who has been studying the importance...
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Show #108 Dr. Stuart Brown Part II- Success, Practice, and Grandparents
In today’s show, I talk a little bit about the importance of working memory,...
Show #106- Dr. Russell Barkley :Understanding ADHD
This show features the second half of my conversation with Dr. Russell Barkley. ...
Show # 99- Elaine Weitzman, Hanen Centre
In this episode, I talk with Elaine Weitzman from the Hanen Centre. The Hanen Centre...
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Show #104- Dr. Susan Johnson, Commonwealth Academy- Remediation and the Future of Education
In the third part of my conversation with Dr. Susan Johnson, head of Commonwealth Academy, we talk about the difference between teaching a child with accommodations versus remediating weaker skills and how to accomplish both; we also discuss what she would recommend as suggestions of how to change education. Ultimately, I think we have to look at education... [Read more of this review]
Show #100 Sharon Martin, SLP on Response to Intervention (RTI) and Individualized Education Programs (IEP).
In today’s show, Sharon and I discuss how you might go about getting help for your child in school. Part of this is understanding the first steps, called Response to Intervention, or RTI. Teachers are supposed to try different, research-based interventions with the child in the classroom, to see if the child improves, before referring the child... [Read more of this review]
LD Podcast #95- Dr. Andy Van Schaack- Technology and Education
I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Andy Van Schaack from Vanderbilt University about Education and Instructive Technology. We spoke specifically about what technology can and cannot do to aid education and learning. We spoke about how it’s even more important to go beyond just research-based learning and look at evidence-based instruction,... [Read more of this review]
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