Parallel Assessment and Sensory Integration
Post #5 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Sensory integration is the neurological process that organizes sensation from one’s own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment. – Jean Ayres Eye contact is still difficult for me in noisy rooms because it […]
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 […]
Parallel Assessment: an overview
Post #3 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. To truly understand a child, we need to attend to the child as a whole human being living in the real world, not as a collection of isolated skills, deficits, or test scores. Both Parallel Assessment and Parallel Development involve ongoing, individualized processes of […]
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. […]
Interactive Developmental Domains, OM
Post #2 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Parallel Assessment and Parallel Development are models of successful child development interventions shaped by biological, societal and cultural strategies for connection and learning. They are concerned not only with what a child can do, but with how the child comes to do it through […]
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 […]
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 […]
To Understand and To Be Understood
“Nobody can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.” – Paul Tournier Post #1 in category. We suggest you read posts in numerical order. To Understand and To Be Understood To understand and to be understood are needs shared by all human beings. They […]
Discovering the Child
Post #2 in this category. We suggest reading posts in numerical order. I have learned that to truly understand a child, one must look beyond what is absent or delayed. One must be attentive to what is present. And this presence, however subtle or fleeting, can often be extraordinary. There are those who encounter a […]