To NY Mom who thinks I am not familiar with Arrowsmith – nothing could be further from the truth. There is an Arrowsmith program in my neighborhood and several students in a local school are receiving training in the program. Unfortunately, the children that are being serviced have not shown dramatic improvement. The program requires a large investment of time and while the child is doing the training they are missing classroom academics (these children receive their training during school time – they leave the school twice a day). I’m not saying that the program isn’t worthy – I am saying that there has to be a balance between this type of training and academic intervention. And if you truly believe that we only teach mnemonics to compensate for memory, you could not be more wrong. We use many methods to train memory and improve it. If you haven’t had that experience, then the resource room or special ed program has not been doing its job.
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