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Brain-based Learning Articles with Learning Strategies for Your Kids

Articles with Strategies to Help kids
Articles just for grownups.

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Articles with Teacher Resources and Parenting Tips

What to do When Kids Go off their Meds: Brain-based Learning Strategies
for ADD/ADHD
Check out strategies to help hyperactive kids as parents take their kids
off stimulant drugs used to control ADD/ADHD. (A likely scenario given the recent publicity about heart-related problems linked to Ritalin.)

Norman-the-Neocortex: Connect the Dots to Find Out How His Brain Works.
Discover how kids (and you) can make brain cells connect to enhance learning.

A Brain-based Learning Strategy that Works: 10 Ways to Improve Reading, Writing, and Just about Anything Else
Discover different ways to cross the midline and why this is important for reading comprehension, handwriting, and even as a test taking strategy.

Quiet on a Summer Day: It's Essential for Your Sanity and Their Brain
Discover Seven fun things kids can do to help increase skills so necessary in school: sitting quietly and concentrating.  (Not recommended for kids who aren't already very busy and aren't out running and playing, rushing from one activity to another. And that's not very many boys and girls!)

FDA Update: The Serious Side Effects of ADHD Drugs
The FDA remains concerned about the side effects of these drugs. Now the Agency is directing drug manufacturers to notify patients about serious side effects on children of stimulant drugs.

Articles just for grown-ups

Are you left-brained or right-brained and What Does that have to do with Brain-based Learning? (Includes a fun quiz you can take)

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