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Monthly Archives: April 2013
New Perspectives for Dementia carers
We maybe years or decades away from having a real understanding about why Dementia, in all its forms, happens and how to best help those who painstakingly care for their loved ones. Meanwhile it is the number 1 health challenge of our time and … Continue reading
Are you a sparrow or a pigeon?
Looking out at the birds in my garden I was reminded about a story I used to use that I had forgotten recently. Many people with learning difficulties are very ungrounded that manifests as being wobbly when they are stressed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridges to success, learning difficulties, pigeon, sparrow
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Q: Is ADHD/ADD a behaviour or a disability?
The question was posed through facebook “When a child has ADHD/ADD, disability, and etc. starts to scream, throw themselves on the ground, cries, says bad words, says anything, hits himself, pulls their hair, and etc. is it a behaviour or their disability?” … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD/ADD, behaviour, disability, Empowering Learning, Facebook
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The qualities of your mental images and learning difficulties
A vital part of creating mental images and hence learning is the quality of those images. And this is where parents can really help. Talk to your children about their images, this will help them to develop their occipital region. … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, Autism, Dyscalculia, dyslexia, Dyspraxia, literacy, mental images, numeracy, quality of pictures
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Intense theory of Autism
Just been reading about the Intense Theory and it really resonated with me and many of my clients. Take a look at this article Having witnessed on many occasions the intensity that people feel energy from others and the simple … Continue reading
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Tagged Autism, empoweringlearning, Energetic NLP, Harry Potter, Intense
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The role of mental imagery in Learning Difficulties
The role of mental imagery in poor literacy, numeracy, concentration….and how neglect of this vital skill develops into learning difficulties Empowering Learning has developed a unique set of skills around mental imagery and learning. What is mental imagery? Mental imagery … Continue reading
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Tagged concentration, Empowering Learning, learning difficulties, literacy, numeracy, occipital temporal
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A Dyslexic brain or just highly visual?
This is a really useful example to show people and aid their understanding. See how you think it works with the Empowering Learning Principles. Please ensure you watch it to the end or you might be left with the idea … Continue reading
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Why are schools not interested…
Why are schools not interested in the vital contribution mental imagery makes to our ability to think and learn, when mental imagery has been extensively used for sports performance for at least the last 10 years? The simple answer is that no Teacher or … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, Aspergers, Autism, concentration, Dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia, Jonny Wilkinson, literacy, numeracy, Tom Daley
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More schools are helping 11 year-olds catch up
More schools are taking up the offer from Empowering Learning to provide a simple way to measure and accelerate their catch-up programmes, specifically funded for year 7 this year. They are realising the vital role that mental imagery plays in … Continue reading
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The 8 benefits of Dyslexia
Parents often realise that Dyslexia comes with many benefits. See which of these match your experience. 8 benefits of having dyslexia2. For my non-dyslexic readers, see which of these you would like! All the spelling, reading, concentration, confusion challenges are … Continue reading