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Arrowsmith School is a privately owned co-educational and non-denominational day school that is dedicated to helping students with learning disabilities.
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Students who come to Arrowsmith School have been struggling in school - some are just starting their schooling but their experience has already shown a pattern of learning problems. Others have been finding school a challenge for years.
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The cognitive exercise program at Arrowsmith School is designed to strengthen the learning capacities that underlie the learning difficulties that our students have been experiencing in school.
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Each new student is fully assessed at Arrowsmith School so that we may identify his or her areas of strength and weakness and design a program of cognitive exercises specifically for that student’s particular learning profile.
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The Arrowsmith Program is founded on neuroscience research and over 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.
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Our program has proven effective for students having difficulty with reading, writing and mathematics, comprehension, logical reasoning, problem solving, visual and auditory memory, non-verbal learning, attention, processing speed and dyslexia.
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The Arrowsmith Program is founded on two lines of research, one of which established that different areas of the brain working together are responsible for complex mental activities, such as reading or writing, and that a weakness in one area can affect a number of different learning processes. The other line of research investigated the principle of neuroplasticity, which is the ability of the brain to physically change in response to stimulus and activity, to develop new neuronal/synaptic interconnections and thereby develop and adapt new functions and roles believed to be the physical mechanism of learning.
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The Arrowsmith Program deals with the root causes of the learning disability rather than managing its symptoms.
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You may read more about the development of the Arrowsmith methodology in the book “The Woman Who Changed Her Brain,” by Barbara Arrowsmith Y
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A number of television programs and interviews have been devoted to the work of Arrowsmith Program. A compilation of these programs describing the methodology of the program is available on our Videos link.