Resilience for Kids With Dyslexia, Learning and Attention Issues
What is resilience, anyway? And why is building resilience in children with learning and attention issues important? Hear from Fumiko Hoeft, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist and a cognitive neuroscient...
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We know that children with learning differences or dyslexia often have problems with academic success. They have poor academic success overall. But we also know that there's many students who often, who end up succeeding tremendously. And use, have a lot of great resources, and they succeed despite their challenges in schooling. And, so this is what resilience is about to us. One side of it is cognitive resilience, which means that what are the cognitive factors that make dyslexic individuals succeed, despite having dyslexia and some struggles in school. And then also we looked at the social-emotional factors, in a similar way, that helped them being resilient, which is the common one that we think about when we think about resilience. So, if we t...
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We know that children with learning differences or dyslexia often have problems with academic success. They have poor academic success overall. But we also know that there's many students who often, who end up succeeding tremendously. And use, have a lot of great resources, and they succeed despite their challenges in schooling. And, so this is what resilience is about to us. One side of it is cognitive resilience, which means that what are the cognitive factors that make dyslexic individuals succeed, despite having dyslexia and some struggles in school. And then also we looked at the social-emotional factors, in a similar way, that helped them being resilient, which is the common one that we think about when we think about resilience. So, if we t...
