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Jane Healy PhD
"The brain's functioning -- and thus its "readiness" for any type of learning -- is shaped by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Genetic nature combines with prenatal nurture to endow the infant brain with a range of possibilities, but the environment after birth helps forge the neuronal connections that underlie later learning.
Like a sculptor, the child's experience prunes away unneeded -- or unused -- synapses, while strengthening those patterns of connections that are repeatedly used. Thus habits of the mind may become, quite literally, structures of the brain. Although the susceptible cell groups comprise but a small proportion of total brain mass, they are critical to learning because they facilitate higher-level thinking, planning, and skills of mental organization so essential to self-directed and meaningful human learning." Extracts from her book
Endangered Minds
(Reference
http://www.newhorizons.org/
future/Creating_the_Future/
crfut_healy.html ) |
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| Vision Development |
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Vision development is the key building block to reading. Understanding all aspects of early neurological development is becoming very important for parents brining up children in the 21st century.
All children are intelligent and have a natural love and thirst for learning. They are all initially right brained and see the big picture. The recommendation is to maximise their visual learning potential through interactive vision development.
By simply understanding this operating principle we can maximise developmental wellness across all the sensory and motor functions.
The whole brain works as a self regulating inter connected system
Neuro Network recognises that there is a critical need today, to understand and engage with this inter connected system, specifically to make reading easy, learning fun and to help children comfortably and confidently settle into all aspects of their class room routines.
"To learn effectively children must have well-developed sensory motor processes. Reading, speaking and writing are seen as 'the basics' when they are in fact extremely complex neurological tasks requiring the senses, muscles, nerves and the brain to all work together."
Information Hub Jane Healy
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After two weeks of program, note the changes in visual perception, for a
five year old writing and drawing "my house." |
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