It also immediately sparked student interest and engagement, which increases student learning and is especially essential for students
with neurological differences.
By understanding the molecular factors impacting these skills, scientists may learn
about neurological differences and find other therapeutic options, she said.
We can create inclusive, powerful classrooms of learning for all brain types when we understand and embrace the strengths and challenges that our students
with neurological differences are facing.
The idea behind Neurodiversity is that conditions such as autism should be seen not as disabilities, but as perfectly
normal neurological differences between people.
Neandertals had a similar brain size — to - body ratio as we do, so rather than cranial capacity, it might have been
underlying neurological differences that could explain why we flourished while they died out, he said.
Students with
neurological differences often have difficulty planning, organizing and executing complex tasks, navigating the intricate social community around them, modulating and regulating their emotions, and connecting their academic work to later career choices.
While students with
neurological differences face daily challenges, they bring unique qualities of focus, nonlinear thinking, recall, and brainstorming enthusiasm to a makerspace or classroom.
The population of students with
acknowledged neurological differences has increased greatly in the past decade, and educators are seeing a greater neurodiversity in their classrooms every day.
If neurological differences are indeed naturally occurring, research into foundation level cures for those differences will not be terribly productive.
Targeting conclusions that are closer to fiction than science, both Fine and Jordan - Young highlight exaggerations, unreplicated claims, and other silliness from research on
neurological differences between the human sexes.
Neurological differences may contribute to the different decision - making styles identified in Bart's study.
Neurological differences between 9 year old children fed breastmilk or formula milk as babies.
It's generally accepted that
these neurological differences are what allowed us to evolve the higher brain function that other primates lack.
I have seen similar benefits in populations of students with
neurological differences (autism spectrum, ADHD, Tourette's).
Immordino - Yang's early results suggest that while both examples of admiration engage the brain's systems for supporting the self and body,
neurological differences between these sides of the emotion hint at an intriguing story that may prove to reflect qualitatively different aspects of self - awareness and consciousness.
Educators need to design these spaces to reach a diverse set of learners, particularly populations underserved in STEM subjects, and students with
neurological differences, learning differences, and special needs.
Instead of focusing on the differences between brain types, neurodiversity celebrates the strengths and gifts for an individual while recognizing the challenges which arise with
a neurological difference.
Students with special needs and
neurological differences can benefit from the hands - on process, experimental nature, and visible results of maker education.
And maker education can do the same thing for students with
neurological differences.
Engineering your room design to take into account students with special needs and
neurological differences can be the difference between a welcoming class space and a scary class space.
Students with
neurological differences or other special needs have great gifts to bring into the classroom.
And this environment reaps even more rewards for those students with
neurological differences and other learning challenges.
Tourette Syndrome is
a neurological difference characterized by repetitive movements and vocalizations called tics.
Orton - Gillingham is one of these programs, a research - based approach to teaching reading to dyslexic students that recognizes
the neurological differences that impact learning.
Giftedness is
the neurological difference you were born with, the inherent way your brain functions — it is how you think and who you are.
TPP 028: Understanding and Combatting Negative Stigmas Associated with Neurological Differences
I send my son, Ricochet, who has ADHD, SPD, Dysgraphia, autism, and a gifted IQ to school and he feels like a failure, due to
his neurological differences.