How Students Learn by Explaining Their Thinking
Nov 19, 2013Overcoming Language and Reading Problems: The Promise of Brain Plasticity
Sep 11, 2013Find out how children around the world are rewiring their brains to overcome 'insurmountable' language and reading problems.
June 2013 Office Hours With Dr. Martha Burns: Which Product Should You Assign?
Jun 25, 2013What Educators May Not Know about the Neuroscience of Learning
Nov 6, 2012What Makes a Good Reader?
Jul 3, 2012Why is it that some children learn to read faster than other children, and what foundational skills can be strengthened to improve a child’s ability to read?
Developmental Dyslexia: Differences in the Pre-Reading Brain
Jun 26, 2012What if there were a way to predict dyslexia, so that affected children could receive earlier intervention? Recent research may have found a way to do just that—by looking at differences in the brain before children learn to read.
Preventing Summer Brain Drain with Dr. Martha S. Burns
May 29, 2012The stronger the pathways in the brain, the easier it becomes for a child to learn and retain information. How will your child stay sharp over the summer?
The Motor-Cognitive Connection: Early Fine Motor Skills as an Indicator of Future Success
Apr 19, 2012We generally don’t consider motor skills development in babies to be an essential element of cognitive development. But is such thinking holding learners and educators back?
Keeping in Mind: The Task of Working Memory
Mar 27, 2012The Mirror Neuron System
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