Integrated Frameworks for Development
Integrated Developmental Domains help us understand how human development is organized and functions. Parallel Assessment and Parallel Development provide frameworks for helping development move forward. Parallel Development begins with the same assumption that underlies the Organizing Minds framework. Development occurs through connections and interactions between persons, between developmental domains, and is boosted and enriched by […]
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. […]
The Child is an Integrated Relational System
“Every essential part of a system can affect the performance of the whole but cannot do so independently of other essential parts. Therefore, in changing performance of any essential part, its effect on the system as a whole should be taken into account.” – Russell Ackoff, Jamshid Gharajedaghi Post #2 in category. We […]
Brain and Mind, Continually Changing Connections
Post #1 in category. We recommend reading posts in numerical order. Download a PDF of Brain and Mind, Continually Changing Connections