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A mind at a time
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[2002]
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English
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9780743202237
9780743527798
9780743202220
9780743527798
9780743202220
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9780743527798
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Table of Contents
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A Mind's Possibilities 23 --
A Pediatric Perspective 24 --
2 Ways of Learning 27 --
How Learning Works 28 --
Eight Systems 30 --
Neurodevelopmental Profiles 35 --
How a Mind's Profile Comes to Be 38 --
How Lifestyles May Affect Learning Styles 43 --
Splitting Rather Than Lumping 46 --
Early Detection of Dysfunction 48 --
Some Adult Implications 48 --
3 Conducting a Mind: Our Attention Control System 51 --
Mental Energy Controls 57 --
Intake Controls 63 --
Output Controls 75 --
Impacts of the Attention Controls 82 --
Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on the Attention Controls as Children Age 83 --
4 Remembering to Learn and Learning to Remember: Our Memory System 90 --
Short-term Memory 93 --
Active Working Memory 99 --
Long-term Memory 104 --
A Few More Memory Differences 114 --
Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Memory as Children Age 116 --
5 Ways with Words: Our Language System 120 --
Different Languages That Make Up Language 121 --
Language Levels 128 --
Special Challenge of Language Production 143 --
Language and Its Ambassadorial Functions 144 --
Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye (or Ear) on Language as Children Age 146 --
6 Making Arrangements: Our Spatial and Sequential Ordering Systems 150 --
Sequential Ordering 153 --
Spatial Ordering 160 --
Spatial Versus Sequential Ordering: Which Would You Rather Be Good At? 166 --
Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Sequential and Spatial Ordering as Children Age 167 --
7 Mind over Muscle: Our Motor System 170 --
Forms of Motor Function 172 --
Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Motor Function as Children Age 184 --
Practical Considerations 185 --
8 Some Peeks at a Mind's Peaks: Our Higher Thinking System 188 --
Conceptual Thinking 192 --
Problem-Solving Thinking 196 --
Critical Thinking 203 --
Rule-Guided Thinking 207 --
Creative Thinking 209 --
Role of Intuitive Thinking in Influencing All Forms of Higher Thinking 213 --
Higher Thinking System and the Other Neurodevelopmental Systems 215 --
Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Higher Thinking as Children Age 216 --
9 Relating to Relating: Our Social Thinking System 220 --
Big Three Social Missions 225 --
Social Functions and Dysfunctions 228 --
Are Some Kids Too Successful Socially? 239 --
Minds Over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Social Thinking as Children Age 240 --
10 When a Mind Falls Behind 245 --
Constructing Neurodevelopmental Profiles 246 --
Identifying the Breakdown Points 248 --
When Bad Things Happen to Good Profiles 260 --
Mining a Child's Precious Assets 262 --
Identifying and Understanding Emotional Complications 262 --
Hows Instead of Whys: Focusing on Identifying and Fixing the Breakdowns Instead of Their Causes 268 --
Benefits and Dangers When a Child's Mind Is Tested 269 --
Roadblocks and Outcomes in Adulthood 271 --
11 Getting a Mind Realigned (but Not Redesigned) 277 --
Management by Profile 277 --
Accessing Special Services in School 287 --
Use of Medication 288 --
Coaching and Mentoring 289 --
Raoul: An Example of a Child Who Was Managed by Profile 290 --
12 Raisin' Brain: Homes for All Kinds of Minds 295 --
Know Thy Child 296 --
Responding to Gaps 298 --
Fostering Strengths, Knacks, Talents, Intuitions, and Affinities 299 --
Trying Not to Harm 302 --
Supporting Education 303 --
Maintaining an Intellectual Life at Home 305 --
Fostering Optimism and a Positive View of the Future 306 --
13 Right to Differ: Schools for All Kinds of Minds 307 --
Teachers: Their Roles and Their Training for Those Roles 308 --
Parents: Their Meaningful Involvement in a Child's Learning 314 --
Students: Learning About Learning and Learning About Their Kinds of Minds 315 --
Humane Schools: Protective and Nurturing Settings for All Kinds of Minds 318 --
Pathways: Greater Availability of Options for Success 321 --
Educational Ambiance 331 --
Results 335 --
Neurodevelopmental Pluralism: A Mind at a Time as an Ethic 335.
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