Cognitive Development in Children
A Bright Future - Cognitive Development in Children
“once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.“ — A. Einstein
I must say it one more time: regardless of your child’s learning challenge, there is hope!
Seeing the hope and making it reality, however, are up to you.
I have spent my professional life searching for answers to understand what it takes to help children learn faster and easier. I am so excited about the bright future that awaits children, because we now know so much more about learning problems. But as parents or those who care about others, we have to take responsibility for implementing solutions.
After reading the previous chapters, you now have some basic knowledge about cognitive skills. Unfortunately, just having new knowledge will not end your child’s learning struggle. Now you need to apply what you’ve learned so your child will achieve success. What can you do?
To review briefly, there are some actions that usually do not work if the underlying problems are weak cognitive skills. For example, you might try an academic program, such as tutoring, but if that does not bring the results you want, you will seek another method. When you don’t see a change in learning skills, you may try still another program.
This cyclic process is what educational experts have experimented with for decades. The problem is that it can take years to see if any approach results in learning progress for a child. While enduring one failure after another, you can imagine what happens to the student and her thoughts about school, teachers, and herself.
I believe there’s a better way!
Cognitive Development in Children – Finding Help
Where can you find help?
Who should you turn to for assistance if your son or daughter has weak learning skills?
Almost all parents will start their search for solutions at their child’s school. It may come as a surprise, but most teachers and school administrators receive very limited traning in spotting and strengthening underlying learning skill weaknesses. Teachers and others at school are sympathetic and want to help, but learning problems confound them almost as much as they do you.
The school may administer tests, but the results will almost always be interpreted in a way that aligns your child with the existing educational model. Your child may receive a learning disability diagnosis and be given tutoring or assigned to special classes. You may hear, “Yes, she has a problem, but she doesn’t qualify for special help,” or perhaps, “You need to see your doctor about an attention problem.”
I repeat -- the intentions of educators are good, but because of training, experience, budget limitations, and other factors, they often see problems through the filter of the existing education system.
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Excerpts of the book Unlock the Enstein Inside by Dr. Ken Gibson
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