The Woman Who Changed Her Brain | Barbara Arrowsmith-Young | Talks at Google

[@LDMOM-p5b]

My son had 14 years of speech and language therapy through the schools and still had a severe language disability. After one year of Arrowsmith program, achieved amazing gains. He had a 1.2 GPA in college, left to do the Arrowsmith program, went back to college and achieved at 3.+ GPA. My other child was failing in middle school. She spent her 8th grade year at Arrowsmith and was able to return to 9th grade and did well in high school. This is the only program that REALLY WORKS for Executive Functioning too!

[@LDMOM-p5b]

This program did more for my children in the areas of language processing, executive functioning and overall academic achievement than standard tutoring, speech therapy and multiple other strategies designed for students with learning disabilities. If my children had this program as elementary students, they could have done so much better without struggling, developing anxiety, depression etc.

[@paolinakoo]

This woman's work has helped my sister heal her brain to the point where she can play piano with both hands (used to have very little motor coordination on one side due to traumatic injury in one hemisphere of her brain) and her cognitive capability for advanced processing increased RAPIDLY in ways that affect her linguistic processing, logical-mathematical processing, and more. She is thriving and I thank Barbara so deeply for sharing the work that she created from her journey!

[@SleeplessinOC]

Paolina Siqueira-koo but HOW ? Did she attend her school or did she read her book ? From what I read , her book doesn’t really teach any exercises . Her school costs thousands ...please share how your sister healed her brain

[@paolinakoo]

Ms Arrowsmith developed this education program from her own life experience! In early life she has developmental disabilities that hindered her ability to process information about the relationship between things and more, and the education system didn’t have a way of helping people with disabilities so she always felt really confused but was determined. She went on to Psych grad school and heard about the case of a Russian soldier whohad brain injury after a battle that left him in similar condition to her. From then on she started practicing exercises like reading time on analog clocks (to determine the relationship between the two hands) and eventually developed more exercises for different areas of the brain too. Her story is documented in the book The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge. I am reading it now, it’s great easy read. My mom read it a few years ago and that’s how she learned about the arrowsmith program to put my sister in.

[@SleeplessinOC]

Paolina Siqueira-koo I was afraid you were going to say she attended the program . It seems unless you are able to pay to attend her program , it’s very difficult to get the results Barbara had. Sigh.......

[@paolinakoo]

Try contacting them about scholarships. Maybe they will have. If your son or daughter needs help, hustle so that they don’t suffer from estrangement and confusion the rest of their lives. The program is absolutely worth it.

[@hossamyasser8651]

This speech gives a great hope to believe we can improve our brains' abilities.

[@decowood5811]

Parents need to speak out about its success with their children in order for the educaton system worldwide to take notice and facilitate action into mainstream schools not just the catholic ones

[@waterkingdavid]

Absolutely agreed. I think this is the greatest problem we have as human beings. We (or many of us) take good things that come to us forgranted without considering that we should share this info with others. Why do you refer to Catholic schools. Is this only in Catholic schools these days?

[@robinhansen4928]

In Canada, mostly yes. In the US its been really hard for people to wrap their mind around not traditional methods. My 3 kids have attended the Arrowsmith program in the SF bay area in California. It is life changing!! I cannot recommend it high enough,

[@decowood5811]

Bring Arrowsmith into our schools to help our children...Its a no brainer

[@geraldinejenkins1287]

Hi wonderful lady : You've went somewhere know one earthly has every going before just listening to you gives me hope your life is my life I would love too meet you in life I don't have.much but I love God, and God to send me help I love to read, I don't read real fast , but in my heart I known I am very in intelligent ,it so much I can say but you got my mind too overwhelmed I wish you was a great friend of mine just want to help my self and other like you do [e-mail].

[@jayashreebalachandran2524]

We do come across various people with spectrum of cognitivr deficits the exercises may b available for people who want to use n make improvements

[@MrFanderwald]

this was awesome!!

[@hotshot985]

Great women

[@sahilsinghrajput3384]

59:21

[@rodneypaterson7072]

I think Barbara deserves a PhD

[@anthropolophile2377]

Read this before being so gullible pamelasnow.blogspot.ca/2015/05/why-not-everyone-is-enthusiastic-about.html

[@ingridburling8731]

The content of this presentation is excellent, but I've stopped listening because the speaker is radiating so much stress. She does the entire presentation is a breathless state, every breath is snatched and she does not sound at ease or calm at all. If there is one piece of advice I can give to those who do presentations, it is to BREATHE. Pause to take a proper breath REGULARLY , and let the oxygen in. This woman is also rushing through the whole thing. Her speaking speed is around 3.5 words per second, much too fast. It needs to be 2.5 words per second - the speed a newsreader uses - for optimal witnessing and engagement. To ensure you do this, put a vertical stroke in your speech text roughly every two or three words, and make a small pause there, to take a nice breath. Your presentation will be transformed by this. Speaking speeds of 2 words per second have been shown to be too slow, so people will fall asleep if you speak at that speed, and speeds of 3 words per second will also have people disengaging as it is too stressful for them to want to dwell on your topic with you. You can plan how many words to say in your allotted time by counting 2.5 words per second and multiplying this up per minute. Then you can identify how many words you can fit into the time, and speak at a reasonable speed.

[@chrisr226]

Well I listened to the whole talk at 1.75x playback speed, which I usually find about the most efficient. I certainly have no special abilities!

[@ingridburling8731]

I thoroughly disagree with her when she responds to the question about whether a disability in one area could become a super-ability and she says no and that none of them consider their disability to be a gift - this is a matter of perspective. Dyslexics are among the most gifted readers on the planet. Their brains are super visual and they see writing or letters as pictures. The only reason they have such a hard time at school is because most schools don't understand how to teach the kids to capitalise on this, and the teachers are not geared up to teaching the kids to use the visual centre of their brains for reading. They only teach reading through excessive use of the eyes and the frontal cortext, not by using the visual centre of the brain (which acts like a super-camera and which can take in anything AND understand it, intepret it and reason around it). Most traditionally trained teachers do not know how to teach kids to read by using the unconscious mind. I teach advanced reading techniques to people from 7 to 70, and the most gifted readers are those with dyslexia. The non-dyslesics do well, but the dyslexics are incredible - and the skills I teach them are transformational. I've seen it many times.