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. |