Rewiring the Brain: Using Brain Plasticity To Enhance Learning and Treat Learning Disorders
Date:
April 12, 2005
Details:
WHAT YOU LEARN HERE COULD CHANGE THE WAY YOU TEACH CHILDREN AND TREAT LEARNING DISORDERS
Brain Plasticity and Learning: Research shows that the brain is amazingly malleable (plastic) in children and even in adults. Neuroscientists have discovered that computer programs, intervention techniques, teaching methods, and music can help “rewire” the brain to enhance reading, learning, intelligence and memory as well as improve treatments for dyslexia,ADHD, autism and depression.
New Findings, New Paradigms: This conference brings you the most
recent findings in neuroscience from preeminent researchers themselves to help
you create new paradigms to improve your teaching or clinical work with children
and adolescents.
Learning Objectives — Participants Will Gain Knowledge About:
• New research on brain plasticity and critical learning periods
• Neuro-technology to change the brain to improve learning disorders
• Brain-based teaching, assessment & intervention techniques for children
• New brain research on and treatments for autism, ADHD & bipolar disorder
• Strategies to improve child learning, reading and language development
• How to improve memory and the implications of “memory pills”
• The neurobiological basis for intelligence, creativity, giftedness
• How music influences intelligence, cognition & treatment
• Gender and spatial differences in the developing brain