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How Emotions and Memories Focus Our Attention
Attention is a complex cognitive process that allows us to focus on specific stimuli while filtering out others. It is essential for learning, decision-making, and social interaction. The nervous system plays a crucial role in attention by integrating information from different sensory modalities, such as vision, hearing, and touch, as well as from memory and…
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How Infants Learn Language: Dr. Greenspan Was Right 40 Years Ago!
How Infants Learn Language: Dr. Greenspan Was Right 40 Years Ago! (Stanley I Greenspan MD Inc. and its intervention, The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, DO NOT endorse or support ICDL or its DIRFloortime curriculum) Learning a language is one of the most complex and impressive feats that humans accomplish. But how do we go from crying…
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Neurodivergence and Neuropotential: Embracing the Spectrum of Human Minds
(Stanley I Greenspan MD Inc. and its intervention, The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, DO NOT endorse or support ICDL or its DIRFloortime curriculum) The human brain is a complex and wondrous organ, with each individual possessing a unique neurological makeup. In recent years, two concepts have emerged to describe this variability: neurodivergence and neuropotential. While both…
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Plan without Planning: The Zen of Preparing for a Greenspan Floortime® Session
Are you intrigued by the power of Greenspan Floortime® to connect with your child and foster their development? This play-based approach, focusing on following your child’s lead and joining their world, can feel both wonderfully intuitive and a little… daunting at first. How do you prepare for something that’s all about ‘being in the moment’?…
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Rethinking ADHD: A Neurodivergent Brain with Extraordinary Neuroplastic Potential
How current neuroscience — and Dr. Stanley Greenspan’s Developmental, thinking-based framework — invite us to see the ADHD child not as broken, but as beautifully wired, and wired to grow. Introduction: Two Words That Do Not Belong Together — Until They Do For decades, ADHD has been described almost exclusively in the language of deficit….