A mind at a time /
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Author / Creator: | Levine, Melvin D. |
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Imprint: | New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002. |
Description: | 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7181858 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Mind at a Time: Introduction
- A Mind's Possibilities
- A Pediatric Perspective
- 2. The Ways of Learning
- How Learning Works
- Eight Systems
- Neurodevelopmental Profiles
- How a Mind's Profile Comes to Be
- How Lifestyles May Affect Learning Styles
- Splitting Rather Than Lumping
- The Early Detection of Dysfunction
- Some Adult Implications
- 3. Conducting a Mind: Our Attention Control System
- The Mental Energy Controls
- The Intake Controls
- The Output Controls
- The Impacts of the Attention Controls
- Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on the Attention Controls as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 4. Remembering to Learn and Learning to Remember: Our Memory System
- Short-term Memory
- Active Working Memory
- Long-term Memory
- A Few More Memory Differences
- The Outlook
- Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Memory as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 5. Ways with Words: Our Language System
- The Different Languages That Make Up Language
- Language Levels
- The Special Challenge of Language Production
- Language and Its Ambassadorial Functions
- Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye (or Ear) on Language as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 6. Making Arrangements: Our Spatial and Sequential Ordering Systems
- Sequential Ordering
- Spatial Ordering
- Spatial Versus Sequential Ordering: Which Would You Rather Be Good At?
- Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Sequential and Spatial Ordering as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 7. Mind over Muscle: Our Motor System
- Forms of Motor Function
- Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Motor Function as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 8. Some Peeks at a Mind's Peaks: Our Higher Thinking System
- Conceptual Thinking
- Problem-Solving Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Rule-Guided Thinking
- Creative Thinking
- The Role of Intuitive Thinking in Influencing All Forms of Higher Thinking
- The Higher Thinking System and the Other Neurodevelopmental Systems
- Minds over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Higher Thinking as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 9. Relating to Relating: Our Social Thinking System
- The Big Three Social Missions
- Social Functions and Dysfunctions
- Are Some Kids Too Successful Socially?
- Minds Over Time: Keeping a Watchful Eye on Social Thinking as Children Age
- Practical Considerations
- 10. When a Mind Falls Behind
- Constructing Neurodevelopmental Profiles
- Identifying the Breakdown Points
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Profiles
- Mining a Child's Precious Assets
- Identifying and Understanding Emotional Complications
- Hows Instead of Whys: Focusing on Identifying and Fixing the Breakdowns Instead of Their Causes
- The Benefits and Dangers When a Child's Mind Is Tested
- Roadblocks and Outcomes in Adulthood
- 11. Getting a Mind Realigned (but Not Redesigned)
- Management by Profile
- Accessing Special Services in School
- The Use of Medication
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Raoul: An Example of a Child Who Was Managed by Profile
- 12. Raisin' Brain: Homes for All Kinds of Minds
- Know Thy Child
- Responding to Gaps
- Fostering Strengths, Knacks, Talents, Intuitions, and Affinities
- Trying Not to Harm
- Supporting Education
- Maintaining an Intellectual Life at Home
- Fostering Optimism and a Positive View of the Future
- 13. The Right to Differ: Schools for All Kinds of Minds
- Teachers: Their Roles and Their Training for Those Roles
- Parents: Their Meaningful Involvement in a Child's Learning
- Students: Learning About Learning and Learning About Their Kinds of Minds
- Humane Schools: Protective and Nurturing Settings for All Kinds of Minds
- Pathways: Greater Availability of Options for Success
- The Educational Ambiance
- Results
- Neurodevelopmental Pluralism: A Mind at a Time as an Ethic
- Helpful Readings and Other Resources
- Index