Neuroplasticity

Over the past decade or so, there has been a sea change in scientists’ understandings of children’s brain growth and neurophysiological development, and of how these impact children’s life-lived experiences. Researchers have debunked the myth that our abilities are locked in by early childhood. Instead, they now understand that the human brain constantly rewires itself throughout our lifetime, increasing capacity to perform the tasks we ask it to do. This principle is called “neuroplasticity.”

Now that we know that this is possible, we believe we have a moral obligation to put this science to work to empower children by reducing the impact of learning, social, emotional and neurological disabilities. We believe that educational approaches that focus on accommodating children’s disabilities cannot be justified in the face of scientific and therapeutic advances that point the way to instead addressing those challenges, by building up the neural networks the child needs to perform the tasks that drive them.