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...
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Natural Remedies for the Gut-Brain Connection
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...
The Gut-Brain Connection and Children with Special Needs
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...
Organizing Your Child’s Brain Through Crawling and Creeping
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...
Top-Five Brain Boosting Foods for Children with Learning Disabilities
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...
CAN YOU OPEN YOUR EARS TO TRAIN YOUR BRAIN?
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 for the Season
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
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...
Infant Games Grows Brains
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...
