Social Cognition: How to Teach Your Child Social Skills?
About the Event
- Why are Social skills important?
- What are the subtypes of skills?
- How do we recognise them?
- How do we teach them?
- Experiential activities
Learning Disability or Learning Difference: What are the Issues?
“…and let me make it clear to the ones of you who belong to the “why?” generation, that you are in my class to learn and not to question, and if you are too stubborn to understand that, you don’t belong here!” I still can vividly see the tall bearded man standing in front of our classroom in the ancient Gymnasium (Secondary School) thundering these words at us. He was our Literature teacher, Professor Stickelberger (not his real name).
Attention: from Confusion to Control
About the Event
After introducing the neuro-developmental model consisting of eight processing functions that make up a child’s learning profile in the previous talk, the present topic addresses the first element of this model: Attention.
The workshop participants will be introduced to the nature of attention and examine various strategies on how it can be developed as a study skill rather than being an obstacle to achieving academic success. The participants will look at diverse examples and engage in activities and discussions that will help in the in depth understanding of the presented information. Read on…
How To Help Children Who Learn Differently Succeed At School?
About the Event
To introduce parents and teachers of students who struggle with learning to a system of assessment and interventions that will measurably improve their children’s success in school and life by providing interventions that integrate
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