Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Joan Acocella at The New Yorker has a review of a book on overparenting: “A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting.” Her article is: The Child Trap.
Marano thinks that the infant-stimulation craze was a scandal. She accepts the idea of brain plasticity, but she believes that the sculpting goes on for many [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
My friend Harvey Hubbel is working on a movie: Dislecksia: The Movie. Oh boy, here we go.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
WIRED magazine has a fascinating article: The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know which features Amanda Baggs who is in the video below.
Note: Watch the entire video, Amanda explains in “our” language how she perceives the world. This is fascinating stuff.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
A Child’s View of Attention Deficit
While the report gives insights into the sadness and frustration felt by kids with attention deficits, Dr. Bartlett said she chose the students because they had “achieved some measure of success by virtue of now being college students.’’ She said she hopes the research can be used to help identify [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell has written an insightful essay and book review on how the work of James R. Flynn has turned the IQ measurement world on its head.
If what I.Q. tests measure is immutable and innate, what explains the Flynn effect—the steady rise in scores across generations?
Gladwell is one of my favorite New Yorker writers and [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia
“We found that dyslexics who succeed had overcome an awful lot in their lives by developing compensatory skills,” Professor Logan said in an interview. “If you tell your friends and acquaintances that you plan to start a business, you’ll hear over and over, ‘It won’t work. It can’t be done.’ But [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 16th, 2007 4 Comments »
Judith Warner speculates about ADHD, maturation, drugs and more in Ritalin Wars.
This is well worth reading.
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »
I was listening to OnPoint today and the topic was Sleep Deprived Children and the effects of lack of sleep on development, learning, and behavior. Po Bronson and Dr. Judith Ownens were interviewed.
It seems Bronson had a piece on this in this past Sunday’s NY Times Magazine (not online yet that I can see) and [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Hacking My Kid’s Brain: How a Child’s Neurons Were Rewired: “An effort to recalibrate the brain of a child suffering from sensory processing disorder using light, sound and motion therapy is successful.”
(Source Wired News.)
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts
For years contractors, real estate agents and event planners have said that whether building, buying or planning an event, a higher or vaulted ceiling is always better. Are they right? Until now there has been no real evidence that ceiling height has any influence or [...]