Maladaptive Daydreaming
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Children often enjoy their time daydreaming and find it more tedious to have to participate in real-life one-on-one social interactions, further perpetuating social skills deficits.
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Anxiety Disorders
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A new study published last month in JAMA Psychiatry brings exciting opportunities for those who suffer from anxiety disorders.
Read MoreThoughts on the Voice
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As with most of the human body the mechanism that creates our voice is an amazing instrument.
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What is Sensory Processing Disorder?
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For the longest time, we were taught that there were 5 senses; vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. In more recent years, research has identified and added proprioception, vestibular, and interoception senses to that list.
Read MoreLet Them Press Start!
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Video games and gaming systems have exponentially grown in popularity over the past several decades; and, like many “new” things, the pushback against gaming has amplified almost as fast as its popularity.
Read MoreHow COVID-19 has impacted our kids, and how parents can help.
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One significant effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among younger children, is a limited understanding of what it was they just lived through.
Read MoreChildren's Top 4 Social Communication Skills
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As Insight Collective resumes their Children’s Friendship Groups, it reminds me of the importance of addressing social communication skills early in children with Autism as they begin their treatment programs.
Read MoreWhat is it like to stutter?
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Did you ever have those moments when you can't get your words out? You stumble on sounds or parts of words, or even have trouble finishing your sentences.
Read MoreIs Screen Time Bad?
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Screen time has been a hot topic for many years. With the increase in screen time resulting from the pandemic, many parents are left questioning whether they are hindering their child’s development by allowing more screen time.
Read MoreSelective Mutism and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Selective mutism is more than introversion or shyness. It is a condition in which an individual has the cognitive and physical ability to speak but does not do so in certain situations due to substantial anxiety.
Read MorePersonality Development: Why Neuropsychologists Don’t Talk About It (And Why We Should)
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Personality development is a topic I’ve been well-versed in for several years, and it is a domain of psychology that I am proud to consider an expertise.
Read MoreHow to Improve Learning!
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Many years of research in cognitive psychology (or the study of things that happen in your brain) can help to provide tips and tricks to improve learning within a classroom.
Read MoreThese Are the Biggest Benefits of Learning a Second Language as a Child
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Raising kids to speak more than one language can offer them several benefits.
Read MoreThe Elephant In The Room: Impact Of Visual-Spatial Deficits In Children With Learning Disabilities And Why It Goes Untreated
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Children with visual spatial processing deficits present unique learning challenges that are often undetected by parents and teachers, yet result in significant impairments.
Read MoreDr. Boxer's Interview with disABLED+Empowered
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Dr. Boxer was recently interviewed by Dr. Gwen Palafox regarding what exactly he does as a neuropsychologist, including how results from neuropsychological assessments serve as road maps to efficiently support an individual.
Read MoreResources for Children: Understanding Black Lives Matter Protests
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Given the current social climate of our country, the staff at Insight Collective want to provide support to our friends, family, and larger community by sharing resources on how to navigate our current life stressors and the steps we can take to make lasting change.
Read MoreBill creating dyslexia guidebook heads to state Senate in Wisconsin
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In Madison, Wisconsin, lawmakers are one step closer to creating a guidebook for parents and school districts to help students with dyslexia. A bill passed the State Assembly Tuesday which would require the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to create a handbook on how to detect and assist students with dyslexia and other reading conditions.
To read the rest of the article, please visit WKOW’s news site here.
Read MoreAge of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game
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How much does it cost to build educational games with all the flair and polish of their commercial counterparts? $10 million? $13 million?
Try $100 million. That’s roughly how much Age of Learning estimates it will have spent by the end of this year on “Adventure Academy,” a multiplayer online game to teach elementary- and middle-school age children subjects including math, social studies and language arts. The game, publicly available today, works on web browsers and iOS and Android mobile devices.
For more information about the game, please refer to this article. For a direct link to “Adventure Academy,” please click here.
Read MoreVirtual Reality Holds Promise for Reducing Phobias in Autism
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In a new pilot study, adults with autism showed real-life, functional improvements following a virtual reality (VR) treatment approach in which they were gradually exposed to their fears. The VR treatment was coupled with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Fears and phobias are common in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and these can have a significant impact on their ability to carry out daily activities. Graded exposure to anxiety-causing stimuli is a recognized approach for treating fears and phobias in the non-autistic population. But it has been assumed that this method would present special difficulties for people with ASD, as real-life exposure could potentially be too upsetting to allow treatment to take place. To address this, the research team developed an anxiety-targeting intervention that combined cognitive behavioral therapy with immersive virtual reality exposure.
To read more about the research conducted, please visit this website.
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