Professional Development
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Upcoming Resource Fairs
Vancouver - March 12, 2024
Eaton Arrowsmith welcomes you to join us on Tuesday March 12th, 2024, for our Spring Professional Resource Fair at our host site, the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace/United Church. Come meet a variety of professional educators, clinicians, schools and health professionals to learn about their services and the summer programs they have to offer our wonderful community. There will be a variety of different companies, organizations and schools represented at this event. There will also be opportunities to win giveaway items from select vendors with plenty of time to interact and learn about the services or programs you perhaps are looking for for yourself, your child or a friend or family member. We hope to see you there and have an opportunity to meet you in person!
Date: Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: 1825 West 16 Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 2M3 (hosted at the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace/United Church)
Please RSVP for your free ticket by clicking here:
Vendor list:
Alexandra Dunnison Cognitive Consulting
Blooming Brains/Eastside Counselling
Creative Connections Music Therapy
Eaton Arrowsmith School Online
Eaton Arrowsmith School Vancouver
Overture: Educate, Regulate, Communicate
PASS - PALS Adult Services Society
Redmond - March 13, 2024
Eaton Arrowsmith welcomes you to join us on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024, for our Spring Professional Resource Fair at our Redmond site. Come meet a variety of professional educators, clinicians, schools and health professionals to learn about their services and summer programs they have to offer our wonderful community. There will be over 20 different companies, organizations and schools represented at this event. There will also be opportunities to win giveaway items from select vendors with plenty of time to interact and learn about the services or programs you perhaps are looking for for yourself, your child or a friend or family member. We hope to see you there and have an opportunity to meet you in person!
Date: Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Eaton Arrowsmith Redmond 17946 NE 65th St, Redmond, WA, 98052 (Plenty of parking is available)
Please RSVP for your free ticket by clicking here:
Vendor list:
Alexandra Dunnison Cognitive Consulting
Bellevue College - Career Education Options Program
Bellevue College Occupation & Life Skills
Bellevue College - Running Start Program
Dr. Sacarin Listening Center, PSI
Eaton Arrowsmith School Online
Eaton Arrowsmith School Redmond
Recent Resource Fairs
Redmond
On Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, Eaton Arrowsmith hosted our Fall Professional Resource Fair at our Redmond site. A variety of professional educators, clinicians, schools and health professionals were present to share about their services and programs they offer in our wonderful community. There were over 20 different companies, organizations and schools represented at this event. There were also opportunities to win giveaway items from select vendors and plenty of time to interact and learn about the services or programs attendees perhaps were looking for, for themselves, their children or a friend or family member.
We thank those who attended or presented and look forward to hosting and / or participating in future resource fairs like this one!
Vendor list:
· Bellevue College: Center for High School Programs
· Bellevue College: Occupational and Life Skills Program
· Dr. Liliana Sacarin Listening Center
· Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
Vancouver
On Thursday, October 26th, 2023, Eaton Arrowsmith hosted our Fall Professional Resource Fair at This World’s Ours Centre in Vancouver. A variety of professional educators, clinicians, schools and health professionals were present to share about their services and programs they offer in our wonderful community. There were over 20 different companies, organizations and schools represented at this event. There were also opportunities to win giveaway items from select vendors and plenty of time to interact and learn about the services or programs attendees perhaps were looking for, for themselves, their children or a friend or family member.
We thank those who attended or presented and look forward to hosting and / or participating in future resource fairs like this one!
Vendor list:
· Alexandra Dunnison Consulting
. Canadian Brain Performance & Neuroplasticity Centres
.Creative Connections Music Therapy
.Eaton Arrowsmith School Online
.Eaton Arrowsmith School - Vancouver
.North Star Developmental Clinic
Conferences
Eaton Arrowsmith staff members organized the Neuroplasticity and Education: Strengthening the Connection conference for several years.
The conference covered topics like diet and brain connection, brain plasticity in children with learning disabilities, reasoning and the brain, mindfulness training and much more.
While we no longer host the conference, you can watch presentations from past conferences here.
Watch our Founder/Director, Howard Eaton, share about how learning disabilities do not have to be lifelong.
“Your presentation dovetailed nicely with brain plasticity. I believe Barbara Arrowsmith Young’s techniques make her the first brain plasticity brain trainer. The use of [conventional] time clocks and its proportionality fit nicely with programs on executive function, which we are trying to use schoolwide. I believe your work is the future of mass education.”
— Aaron Rahn
Harbour View Elementary School, Montessori Teacher
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Eaton Arrowsmith staff regularly present to education professionals, communities, the public, organizations and parents about topics like neuroplasticity, learning disabilities, brain development, and more.
Topics Available for Presentation:
Neuroplasticity and Education: Strengthening the Connection
“Not Yet” – Using a Growth Mindset to Turn a Challenge Into a Success
If I Only Had a Secretary: Life with Executive Functioning Weaknesses
Growing Healthy Brains with the Whole Child in Mind
Attachment and Brain Development
Exercise and Brain Growth – What is the Connection?
How Anxiety Affects our Brain’s Ability to Learn
So This is What it Feels Like to Have Learning Disabilities
Non Violent Communication: Managing Conflict and Fostering Empathy with the Brain in Mind
The Cognitive Capacities We Improve
Our programs help students address the following types of learning difficulties. Select a type below to learn more.
“Please don’t erase that blackboard yet.”
Messy handwriting, miscopying, misreading, irregular spelling, speech rambling, careless written errors in mathematics, and poor written performance.
“I just don’t get it.”
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).
“I have a memory like a sieve.”
Trouble remembering oral instructions, difficulty following lectures or extended conversations, problem acquiring general information through listening.
“My words don’t always come out in the right order.”
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.
“People say I mumble.”
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.
“I’m sorry. Could you repeat that?”
Mishearing words and thus misinterpreting information, difficulty understanding someone with an accent, extra effort required to listen to speech.
“Planning was never my strong suit.”
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.
“I was never a great reader.”
Poor word recognition, slow reading, difficulty with spelling, trouble remembering symbol patterns such as mathematical or chemical equations.
“I’m not good at remembering the names of things.”
Problem with associative memory, trouble following auditory information, trouble learning names of things such as animals, places, people, colours, days of the week.
“I am such a klutz.”
Awkward body movements, bumping into objects due to not knowing where body is in space relative to objects, uneven handwriting with variable pressure.
“I slur my words sometimes.”
Lack of a clear articulation of speech, some speech slurring.
“I’m just not good at reading people.”
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.
“My eyes hurt when I read.”
Slow, jerky reading with errors, eyes fatigue when reading, problem navigating in the dark.
“Have we met?”
Trouble finding objects, problem remembering visual cues such as landmarks, difficulty remembering faces and recalling the visual details of pictures.
“I am forever getting lost.”
Frequently getting lost, losing objects, messy and disorganized workspace, trouble constructing geometric figures.
“I’m not handy.”
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.
“I couldn’t program the PVR to save my life.”
Trouble understanding the proper sequence of steps in a task such as sewing, cooking or computer programming.
“My reaction time is a bit slow.”
Poor muscle tone, which results in some degree of awkwardness and slowness of body movement.
“I’m not a numbers person.”
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.
What Our Students Say
Watch these video testimonials from Eaton Arrowsmith students.
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DID YOU KNOW?
A student with learning disabilities can lose $700,000+ in lifelong earnings if you don’t act to improve their brain’s capacity.
In 2018, Statistics Canada published an article entitled, “Canadians with disabilities: A demographic, employment and income profile, 2017.” The article noted, “Among youth with disabilities who were neither in school nor employed, 87% had a mental health-related disability, a learning disability, or both.” Finally, “Since those with mental health-related and/or learning disabilities accounted for 77% of youth with disabilities, this suggests they are disproportionately affected when it comes to being neither in school nor employed.”