Arrowsmith School - Strengthening Learning Capacities

INTRODUCTION

Arrowsmith School has been helping students with learning disabilities since 1980. Our program deals with the underlying causes of learning disabilities by identifying and strengthening weak cognitive capacities.

The Arrowsmith Program is founded on neuroscientific research and over 25 years of experience demonstrating that it is possible for students to strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning dysfunctions.

Our program 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

OPEN HOUSE PRESENTATIONS FOR PARENTS

Our next Open House will be held at Arrowsmith School on:
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Presentation at 7:00 p.m.

We invite families who have a child with learning difficulties and other persons interested in our program to attend one of our Wednesday Evening Open House presentations that are held throughout the year. Please click here for our 2008 Open House schedule

THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Read about Arrowsmith School and the development of the methodology underlying the Arrowsmith Program in chapter 2 of a new book by Dr. Norman Doidge, a highly respected Toronto psychiatrist and award winning author. Dr. Doidge set out to investigate neuroplasticity and met both the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they’ve transformed. [more information here]

AN OVERVIEW OF THE ARROWSMITH PROGRAM FOR EDUCATORS

The goal of the Arrowsmith Program since 1978, based on many years of neuroscience research, has been to fundamentally change the capacity of the learner to learn. The premise of the Arrowsmith Program is that the learner is not fixed and that individual learning capacities can be strengthened through a program of very specific cognitive exercises.

This enables the student to learn with average or above average capacities in areas that were previously impaired.
The methodology developed at Arrowsmith School is available to public and private schools through the Arrowsmith Program which provides all of the components required for its effective implementation. continued

SCHOOLS THAT OFFER THE ARROWSMITH PROGRAM

We have listed the schools that offer the Arrowsmith Program here with their websites and addresses.

INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR PROFESSIONALS
and SPEAKERS
Our next Information Sessions for educators and professionals in the fields of learning disabilities and education will be held on: Friday, May 9 (morning and afternoon.) For more information and our 2008 schedule please click here

WHAT'S NEW

THE LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF SASKATCHEWAN will be offering the Arrowsmith Program at a centre in Saskatoon starting in September, 2008. Further information may be obtained by visiting the LDAS website.

The EATON BRAIN IMPROVEMENT CENTRE has now opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, to provide brain training exercises to the adult and elderly population. Please visit their website for details.

GEORGETOWN DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL has announced its intention to offer the Arrowsmith Program in September, 2008. Please click here for more information.