Parallel Assessment: sensation, movement and the beginning of intention
Post #4 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Early sensorimotor responses in infancy are largely automatic, reflexive, immediate and constrained to the present moment. They are narrow in range, rigid, and often disconnected from planning and intention. Only when these early sensations and movements are stored, associated, and integrated with experience across […]
Neuroplasticity and Learning: shaping the mind and the brain
Post #2 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. “Relationships between neuronal structure and function underpin the complexity of human organization: the individual’s thinking, feeling and doing.” – Gerald Edelman Neuroplasticity (the brain’s capacity to alter its structure and function in response to experience) has transformed how we understand learning and human development. […]
Integrated Developmental Domain Systems
Post #3 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Introduction Some of the prevailing assumptions guiding the parenting, assessment, teaching and treatment of children with significant developmental delays may need to change if we want to improve the child’s interpersonal connections, learning and development. We may be diligent, compassionate and technically skilled but […]
Maturation, Mediated Learning and GPPSP Parallel Assessment
Post #3 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Note: Ideas expressed here are not meant to be given in report form, but rather to describe mindsets and methods in Organizing Minds blog posts. Ideas and procedures in the post below can be tried and discussed with the child’s parents and each of […]
A Systems Approach, Newell
Post #2 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Organizing Minds is a Parallel Systems Approach Committed to the Integration of all Domains of Development for the Child with Developmental Delays and for their Adult Mediators “A single mind produces all aspects of behavior. It is one mind that minds them all. Even […]
Learning How to Play, Learning through Play
Post #1 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Children learn through play, yet many must first learn how to play. For young children and for many children with developmental delays, early play does not emerge spontaneously. It is nurtured. These children rely on adults to mediate their early experiences, to draw them […]
Lessons from Neurotypical Development, Constructing a Second Nature
“The process out of which the self arises is a social process which implies interaction of individuals.” – George Herbert Mead Post #1 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. To better understand what children with developmental disorders and delays need to thrive, we begin with neurotypical development. Neurotypical infants offer a rich […]
Parallel Assessment, Discovering the Child and Ourselves
We are striving to discover not how the child came to be “what he is,” but how he can become “what he not yet is.”- Alexei Leontiev Post #2 in category. We suggest reading posts in numerical order. Parallel Assessment, Discovering the Child and Ourselves Some people look at a child and see the worst […]