On a sunny morning a group of preschoolers went to the park with their teachers. Two students, Arthur and Peter, after playing a lot in the park with their toys, found a large cardboard box that was in the school's recyclables. Arthur looked at Peter and with bright eyes of [...]
My education was rich in stimulus. From an early age, I was inserted into the great world of letters. I remember watching my father carefully consulting the dictionary while reading the newspaper. He looked at me and read the new word he had just learned in the dictionary. Even without [...]
According to the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) developmental disorders are developmental conditions that usually arise before the child enters school and are characterized by deficits that result in impairment in personal, social, academic or professional functioning. Learning is a process that involves progressive changes in the [...]
Learning is a process that occurs continuously in people's life in which the acquisition of new behaviors, skills and attitudes has the aim of adapting the human being to the environment. This process occurs in the nervous system and therefore takes into consideration the neurological integrity of the brain to [...]
The technological advances in neuroscience allowed scientists to research and develop studies about the human brain, especially in the first six years of a child’s development. This period is a phase of greater plasticity, which is the ability that the brain has to change through the numerous connections made between the neurons for each new [...]
DSM-V defines that developmental disorders are developmental conditions that typically arise before the child enters school and are characterized by déficits in personal, social, academic or professional functioning. Learning is defined as a process that involves progressive changes in an individual behavior. This is often viewed as a result of [...]
Neuro-linguistic Programming, had its origin in the 70s, with the studies of Richard Brandler, in mathematics and computer science, at the University of California in Santa Cruz. After some time, Richard decided to study psychology and observed that when a person thinks about a traumatic or difficult event, successive times [...]
A person with Savant syndrome is characterized as having a set of high-performance skills involving some cognitive areas related to logical reasoning, memory processing or creativity capacity. These skills can involve the ability to quickly solve numerical calculations, the ability of memorizing entire contents of books with ease (reading a [...]
Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity is the ability the brain has to change according to each new experience. In practical ways, it is through neuroplasticity that the brain changes in structure and functionality as a result of new stimuli. These neural connections have a modeling function, which means that they modify [...]
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a continuum of symptoms and behaviors related to a set of disorders with similar characteristics that vary from person to person. Some individuals have mild symptoms, while others may experience more severe symptoms. Populations more susceptible to developing the disorder include male children, children whose siblings [...]