A cognitive program for students with learning difficulties including:

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READING

WRITING

MATHEMATICS

COMPREHENSION

LOGICAL REASONING

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION

VISUAL MEMORY

AUDITORY MEMORY

DYSLEXIA

NON-VERBAL LEARNING

AUDITORY PROCESSING

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Strengthening Learning Capacities

“Arrowsmith makes everything click. I understand everything and

it's like being a new person. An amazing and powerful person. I feel

like I can do anything, I feel so much better about myself. I feel alive.

I can dare to dream about being successful.”

“I always had big dreams of what my life would consist of. I had this

constant feeling that I had all the parts of the puzzle but my hands

didn’t know how to put the puzzle together. This created a lot of

frustration and sadness. Through this program I feel that my hands

are starting to know where to put the pieces. Building a puzzle seems

to feel much better than just carrying it around.”

Effects of the Arrowsmith Program on Academic Performance: A Pilot Study

"Strengthening cognitive/neuropsychological functions presumed to

underlie academic achievement deficits improves reading,

mathematics, and writing by targeting the cause (i.e., cognitive

deficit) rather than the symptoms (i.e., achievement deficit)."

A Brain-Based Intervention ProgramThat Changes Cognition: Implications for Academic Achievement

"Children with baseline cognitive difficulties showed significant

improvement across cognitive domains in short-term memory,

auditory processing, fluid reasoning, and processing speed."

Excerpt from a study of the Arrowsmith Programprepared by the Brain Gain Lab, University of Calgary.

THE EATON ARROWSMITH ACADEMY CULTURE

Culture is very important to us at all of our Eaton Arrowsmith sites.

When a family joins our community, it is our goal to enable them to feel warmly

welcomed and at home. Families often comment on the fact that the culture of

our school is tangible, and can be felt as soon as one enters the door.

Our Core Communication Values of Fairness, Immediacy, Respect, Safety and

Trust apply when interacting with anyone at EAA – student, parent or staff

member. It is important to us that we work as a team so as to support our

children as they engage in this life-changing program. The way that we interact

with each other is also of great importance. Timely communication, delivered

in an open, non-judgemental way, is very important. Our students have often

struggled academically and/or socially. They may be carrying the weight of

these dif�cult experiences with them when they come to EAA. It is therefore

very important for us to truly understand the needs that each child brings with

him or her, and the emotions that come with such needs, whenever interacting

with our students, and their families!

Mindfulness, physical activity and good nutrition are important components of

a student’s success at EAA. All of these factors lead to healthier, more plastic

brains, ready to bene�t fully from the Arrowsmith Program.

Linking Neuroplasticity and Education with the Arrowsmith Program

A Typical Student atEaton Arrowsmith Academy:

What the Arrowsmith Program atEaton Arrowsmith Academy accomplishesfor students with learning difficulties:is of average or above average intelligence, yet has

demonstrated dif�culty in academic and/or social situations due to the combination of his/her cognitive strengths and weaknesses

has a combination of the learning dif�culties that are described in the Descriptions of 19 Learning Dysfunctions on the EAA web site and brochure

is between six and eighteen years old (there is also an Adult Program for students 19 years and older through Eaton Cognitive Improvement Centre)

does not suffer from emotional or behavioural disorders that would signi�cantly affect his or her ability to participate in the Arrowsmith Program

does not suffer from acquired brain injury or severe intellectual or cognitive disorders such as universal global delay, mental retardation, developmental delay, Down Syndrome, Autism, or Pervasive Developmental Disorder.

The Arrowsmith Program is based on the principal of neuroplasticity, which is the ability of the brain to rewire itself with training. Supported by over 35 years of experience, the Arrowsmith Program links neuroplasticity and education by demonstrating that it is possible for individuals to strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning dif�culties through a program of speci�c, targeted cognitive exercises.

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builds and strengthens cognitive processes that arenecessary for more ef�cient learning

trains visual and auditory memory as well as attentionand concentration

improves motor skills necessary for writing and note-taking

strengthens working memory, processing speed and cognitive ef�ciency

strengthens executive functions

builds the capacity for both verbal and non-verbalthinking, reasoning and problem solving

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Please note that students applying to Eaton Arrowsmith Academy do not need to have a diagnosed learning disability in order to be accepted*

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Arrowsmith PROGRAM?

WHAT IS THE DO THESE PROBLEMS SOUND FAMILIAR?The Arrowsmith Program may benefit your child if there is a match between his or her areas of difficulty and the symptoms described below:

Motor Symbol Sequencing

Messy handwriting, miscopying, misreading, irregular spelling, speech rambling, careless written errors in mathematics, poor written performance.

Symbol Relations

Difficulty with reading comprehension, trouble with mathematical reasoning, trouble with logical reasoning, difficulty reading an analog clock, problem understanding cause and effect, reversals of ‘b’ - ‘d’; ‘p’ - ‘q’ (younger students and in more severe cases).

Memory for Information or Instructions

Trouble remembering oral instructions, difficulty following lectures or extended conversations, problem acquiring general information through listening.

Predicative Speech

Problem putting information into one’s own words, speaking in incomplete sentences, difficulty using internal speech to work out consequences, trouble following long sentences, breakdown of steps in mathematical procedures.

Broca’s Speech Pronunciation

Mispronouncing words, avoiding using words because of uncertainty of pronunciation, limited ability to learn and use phonics, difficulty learning foreign languages, difficulty thinking and talking at the same time, flat and monotone speech with lack of rhythm and intonation.

Auditory Speech Discrimination

Mishearing words and thus misinterpreting information, difficulty understanding someone with an accent, extra effort required to listen to speech.

Symbolic Thinking

Problem being self-directed and self-organized in learning, limited mental initiative, difficulty keeping attention relevantly oriented to the demands of a task necessary for completion, difficulty thinking, planning, problem solving, trouble seeing the main point.

Symbol Recognition

Poor word recognition, slow reading, difficulty with spelling, trouble remembering symbol patterns such as mathematical or chemical equations.

Lexical Memory

Problem with associative memory, trouble following auditory information, trouble learning names of things such as animals, places, people, colors, days of the week.

Kinesthetic Perception

Awkward body movements, bumping into objects due to not knowing where body is in space relative to objects, uneven handwriting with variable pressure.

Kinesthetic Speech

Lack of clear articulation of speech, some speech slurring.

Artifactual Thinking

Problem interpreting non-verbal information such as body language, facial expression and voice tone, weak social skills, difficulty perceiving and interpreting one’s own emotions, difficulty thinking, planning, problem solving non-verbally.

Narrow Visual Span

Slow, jerky reading with errors, eyes fatigue when reading, problem navigating in the dark.

Object Recognition

Trouble finding objects, problem remembering visual cues such as landmarks, difficulty remembering faces and recalling the visual details of pictures.

Spatial Reasoning

Frequently getting lost, losing objects, messy disorganized workspace, trouble constructing geometric figures.

Mechanical Reasoning

Difficulty understanding the mechanical properties of objects, problems constructing or repairing machinery such as taking apart and putting together a bicycle or repairing a car.

Abstract Reasoning

Trouble understanding the proper sequence of steps in a task such as sewing, cooking or computer programming.

Primary Motor

Poor muscle tone which results in some degree of awkwardness and slowness of body movement.

Quantification Sense

Finger counting, trouble retaining numbers in one’s head, difficulty making change, problem learning math facts, poor sense of time management, difficulty with time signature in music.

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The Arrowsmith Program is based on neuroscience research demonstrating that it is possible to address learning disabilities by identifying and strengthening weaker cognitive capacities.

Arrowsmith School has used this program successfully since 1978. The goal of the Arrowsmith Program is to help students strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning difficulties and to enable them to become confident, effective and self directed learners.

The Arrowsmith Program addresses the root causes of thelearning difficulty rather than managing its symptoms. Students become effective learners without having to compensate for their learning difficulties. Students' abilityto perform complex tasks are improved when their weakercognitive areas are strengthened.

Students return to a full academic program at their appropriate grade level without the need for further resourcesupport or curriculum modification following completionof a three or four year Arrowsmith Program.

Upon completion of the program some students may require one to two years to gain experience using their newly strengthened cognitive capacities and some students may need tutoring initially to bring academic skills to grade level.

For further information about the Arrowsmith Programand the learning dysfunctions it addresses, please visit ourwebsite at: