Arrowsmith School - Strengthening Learning Capacities

INTRODUCTION

The Arrowsmith Program began to be offered to students with learning disabilities in 1978. Arrowsmith School was established in 1980.

The Arrowsmith Program is founded on neuroscientific research and 30 years of experience demonstrating that it is possible for students to strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning dysfunctions through a program of specific cognitive exercises.

Our program deals with the underlying causes of learning disabilities by identifying and strengthening weak cognitive capacities and has proven effective for students having difficulty with reading, writing and mathematics, comprehension, logical reasoning, visual and auditory memory, non-verbal learning, attention, processing speed and dyslexia. continued

ARROWSMITH SCHOOL PETERBOROUGH

Arrowsmith School Peterborough opened in 2005 as a branch of the Toronto school offering the same program as the Toronto school and is continuing to accept enrolment for the 2008-2009 school year. continued

OPEN HOUSE PRESENTATIONS FOR PARENTS

Our next Open House will be held at Arrowsmith School on:
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
at 7:00 p.m.

We invite families who have a child with learning difficulties to attend one of our Wednesday evening Open Houses that are held throughout the year.

Click here for our schedule for the 2008-2009 school year.

COMING IN THE FALL OF 2008

A one hour documentary about Arrowsmith School by noted Canadian documentary film makers Vanessa Dylyn and Christine Pochmursky is scheduled to be shown on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in October.

Also on the CBC in the fall, there will be a documentary appearing on The Nature of Things with David Suzuki based on the recent book, The Brain That Changes Itself, about the new field of neuroplasticity by highly acclaimed Canadian author and psychiatrist, Dr. Norman Doidge, that has devoted an entire chapter to the methodology underlying the Arrowsmith Program.

We will announce on our website the dates and times of these documentaries when they become available.

The Arrowsmith Program is an affiliate of Arrowsmith School that has been offering the Arrowsmith cognitive exercise methodology to students with learning difficulties for over ten years at public and private schools in Canada and now in the United States. As well as providing the Arrowsmith Program of cognitive exercises, Arrowsmith Program provides a comprehensive teacher training course for all new teachers and continuing professional development throughout the year and a web-based assessment for all students.

Please click here for information about having the Arrowsmith Program available at your school.

Professionally Speaking,the magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers, has published a cover story in its September, 2008 issue titled Raising Cognitive Capacity about the development of the Arrowsmith Program and its success in the Toronto Catholic District School Board where it has been available since 1997. The Arrowsmith Program is now offered in seven elementary schools in the TCDSB. Please click here to read the full story.

INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR PROFESSIONALS

Our Information Sessions for educators and professionals in the fields of learning disabilities and education, who may also be interested in having the Arrowsmith Program at their schools, will resume in the fall commencing on Friday, October 24, 2008 with morning and afternoon sessions. For more information please click here.

WHAT'S NEW:

Read about Arrowsmith School and the experiences of the family of one Arrowsmith School student in the article Special Schools for Special Needs by Laura Ramsay that appeared recently in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Arrowsmith Program has been invited to make a presentation at the Seventh Annual November conference of the Ontario Association for Students at Risk that is being held at Redeemer University College, 777 Garner Road East, Ancaster, Ontario on Friday, November 21, 2008. This conference will be of particular interest to teachers and others who care about students at risk, many of whom also have learning disabilities. For more information or to obtain information about attending please visit www.oasar.org or enquire by email to joanncarrothers@hotmail.com

We are pleased to announce that six new schools have taken on the Arrowsmith Program for 2008-2009 with four schools in the U.S. and two in Canada. Please click here for a listing of all the schools that offer the Arrowsmith Program.