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Building Happier Learners and Better Thinkers
20+ Proven & Effective Thinking and Self-Regulation Strategies: For Children with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD
Lynne Kenney, PsyD www.lynnekenney.com
Improving Skill DeficitsThe Science of How We Think Feel and DoMusical ThinkingThinking InterventionsImproving Challenging Behaviors
Today’s Landscape
Improving Skill Deficits
Let’s Begin with the Developmental World of The Child
LanguageCognitionSocialSensoryTemperamentMotor
•Developmental Delays•Executive Function•Grief•Trauma•Illness•Low blood sugar•Over-stimulation•Boredom•Misunderstanding•Sabotage•Anxiety
MedicationDevelopmental, Behavioral, Learning Interventions
NeurotransmittersExerciseFood/NutritionSleep
Exercise and NutritionBrief Assessment - Brief NeuroPsych, Mindprint Learning, SLP, OT, PTInterventions - ACTIVATE , MC2, EF Coaching, Cogmed, neurofeedback, Bal a Vis XStrategies - Picture schedules, task modification, verbal cueing, visual cueing, feedback
The Data Drives The Intervention
Nourish at the Cellular Level
Nighty Night
Consistent wake and sleep timesSleep routineDark cool roomMorning sunMorning movement
Neuroscience and Behavioral ChangeHow The Brain is BuiltThe Caveman, The Thinker + BootsThe Power of EntrainmentThe Pre-Skills
The Science of How We Think, Feel and Do
Learning is a biological process.It happens in your brain.
The Biology of Learning
Musical Thinking is a cognitive empowerment strategy utilizing music, movement and rhythm that teaches children how they think and learn helping them gain better control over their approach to daily
tasks and activities related to learning and behavior.
Rhythm is biological, material and meaningfulHow to bounce a ballWhen to bounce a ballWhat ball bouncing teaches us
Entrainment: Having a Ball
readingObservationOral-Motor MovementSound productionBabblingSymbolsMatching symbol to phonemesMeaningful communication
The Pre-Skills
mathQuantitySizePatternsSymbolsRepresentationRelationships
Musical Thinking
Musical Thinking
Musical Thinking is a cognitive empowerment strategy utilizing music, movement and rhythm to teach children how they think and learn helping them gain better control over their approach to daily tasks and activities related to learning and behavior.
Movement precedes cognition.Rhythm is a foundational component to perceiving language, reading and math.Deficits in fine and gross motor control, rhythm, and timing have been consistently reported in the literature across several diagnostic groups including ADHD, developmental dyslexia, reading, math and speech-language deficits. Movement paired with increasingly complex cognition is likely to improve executive functions.
Foundational Cognitive Exercise Research
Musical Thinking
“Teaching children HOW they think,
not simply what to think.”
When we make the application of executive functions to learning transparent and easily understood, children gain better control over what was previously mysterious to them, that is, the process of thinking and learning.
Transparency
You are a cognitive scientist (direct instruction)Your brain is musical(patterns, tempo, rhythm, timing) Cognitive-Exercise
The 3 Part Process
The #1 thing we need to do to learn is put things into our brains then take them out again, over and over.
Slow-Mo – We encode in slow notes.Quick Rick – We retrieve in quick notes.
Learning + Memory
Measures of music have an interesting correlation to cognitive processing. In 4/4 time, there are four beats to a measure.Each beat can help children experience a part of a thought, action or piece of educational content. Since we learn by understanding the sequences of content, knowledge or actions, we are able to teach children better executive function skills by associating content or knowledge with each beat.
What’s In a Measure?
Learning (memory, attention, inhibition)SEL (communication, self-awareness,self-compassion)Mastery (confidence, increased motivation, decreased anxiety/stress)
Musical Thinking Outcomes (what’s on your list?)
Notes
The Cognitive ConversationWhat are Executive FunctionsThe THINK CardsThe Attention CycleThe Flashlight TechniqueCognitive Cueing
Thinking Interventions for Better Learning
Teach children HOW their brains work no simply what to learn
How the brain is builtHow we learnYour brain is musicalExecutive functions are cognitive skillsYou have the power to build your cognitive skillsWith music, art, and movement through practice
Organization, planning, approach and time managementAttention (alert, select, sustain) distractibilityCognitive control, shift and flexibilityMemory, input, manipulation, outputProblem solving, decision makingEmotional regulation and modulationImpulse control and managementMotor management planning, pacing, initiation, maintaining, stopping
Executive Function Domains
Challenging and Complicated BehaviorsThe Sensing BrainCo-regulationMantras, Soothing and Self-Regulation
Improving Challenging Behaviors
Be a force multiplier.You have the power to change the trajectory of children’s learning!