About Arwood’s Neuro-Education Model (ANM)

The emerging field of brain-based learning has traditionally used the two lenses of neuroscience and psychology to translate scientific findings into a series of educational applications. Much progress has been made from these efforts to make research more palatable to non-scientists; and yet, most scholars are left with more vexing questions than answers.

In the 1980's Dr. Arwood used language analyses and research to understand the acquisition of language based on her background in psychology and speech sciences. To this knowledge, the fluidity and dynamic aspects of a strength-based model was further affirmed through the decade of the brain (in the 1990's). By 2008, Dr. Arwood had named the tenets of the NsLLT [Neuro-Semantic Language Learning Theory] and proposed a higher education curriculum based on the intersection of three disciplines: neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and language. Dr. Arwood called this new academic juncture Arwood’s Neuro-Education Model [ANM or Neuro-Education]. The end result of these decades-long efforts is that the ANM serves as an approach to understanding the human brain that remains authentically unique to this day.