Screen Addiction! Can You Reset Your Child’s Brain?
Screen Addiction Are your kids obsessed with screens? Are they constantly on Facebook or playing video and mobile games? Makes you wonder how much this digital era is affecting these...
Screen Addiction Are your kids obsessed with screens? Are they constantly on Facebook or playing video and mobile games? Makes you wonder how much this digital era is affecting these...
After reading our report The Gut-Brain Connection and Children with Special Needs, you are probably wondering what you can do to help balance crucial gut flora. Food will not heal...
Gut-Brain Connection The gut-brain connection may have a direct impact on children with special needs. Deep in the walls of the digestive system is the body’s “second brain”. This enteric...
Crawling and Creeping When I first met Benjamin Thompson, he was struggling with echolalia (unsolicited repetition of vocalizations), extreme hyperactivity, self-biting, and poor eating and sleep habits. He had been...
Many experts believe that learning disabilities originate mostly from little interruptions in the brain causing it not to function properly, though the causes are not concretely identified, the good thing...
As an educator, expert contributor for “Learning Disabilities” section on ABOUT.COM, and regular columnist for Parenting Special Needs Magazine, I had the opportunity to review a new product called Forbrain. This device consists of...
Brain Games Everywhere you look these days it seems that there is information about building our brain’s capacity and skill. “Change your brain and you’ll change your life,” they say....
Judgment and the Teenage Brain Ask any parent: The teenage brain is difficult to decipher. And regardless of whether your teenager has special needs or not, the mood swings, out-of-character...
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and
Infant Games One of the fascinating facts about brain development is that as far as the brain is concerned, we are all born premature. Even though we are born with...