Educational Titles
The following books and educational resources are published by Neuro-Education Press
(unless otherwise noted).
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The Neuro-Education Academic Series
Series Editor: Christopher Merideth, Ed.D
This series is designed to provide a scholarly foundation to the study of Neuro-Education
Neuro-Education:
A Translation from
Theory to Practice
Volume 1 in Academic Series
Published 2017
Editors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Christopher Merideth
Price: $40.00 (Hardback)
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Neuro-Education is the study of how children learn best, acquire new information, and use knowledge to advance their own thinking. Drawing from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and language, this new academic discipline uses brain-based scientific findings to develop a novel approach to working with students who have struggled in traditional school settings. This book is designed to help educators make a paradigm shift in their practice by shifting their focus from teacher-directed pedagogy to a framework that considers learning from the perspective of the child. How does the brain actually process sensory input? Why do children retain some knowledge but quickly forget other pieces of information? Given that approximately 95% of children think by making visual pictures in their minds, how can educators inspire students to draw upon these strengths to promote higher-order cognition and empathy for others? These questions and more are explored in this book by practitioners of Neuro-Education, who work with a diverse range of student populations including English language learners, individuals with special needs, children who are deaf/hard of hearing, and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In order for Neuro-Education to be a legitimate field, it must be anchored by scientific research that showcases its efficacy. This research has culminated in the creation of the Neuro-Semantic Language Learning Theory (NsLLT), proposed by Dr. Ellyn Arwood, which is the primary lens of translation from research to educational practice used in this book. This anthology documents how eleven contributing authors have used the principles of the NsLLT to transform their classrooms into laboratories of learning. This publication is the first volume in The Neuro-Education Academic Series (Neuro-Education Press), which is designed to provide evidence of the gains that are possible by incorporating the NsLLT into brain-based instruction. Educators, parents, and anyone who works with struggling students can use the methods presented here to revolutionize their approach to facilitating learning in these vulnerable populations.
Neuro-Education for Learning:
Case Studies Connecting Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Language
Volume 2 in Academic Series
Expected Publication Date:
Fall 2025
Editors:
Christopher Merideth
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Price: TBD
Over the past few decades, our understanding about the brain has increased dramatically. Yet, the dissemination of this knowledge into educational settings has been slow, leaving many teachers and practitioners to use outdated models of human learning and thinking in their field. In this second volume of The Neuro-Education Academic Series (Neuro-Education Press), eleven educators make the case that taking into account observations about how the brain operates can radically transform the methods and strategies that are used in the classroom. Each chapter in this anthology presents evidence in the form of a case study showing how the author has utilized Arwood’s Neuro-Education Model to reconstruct how they approach their craft. Topics of study include working with students who have special needs, helping ESL students to acquire a target language, empowering students to successfully visualize the social ramifications of their behavioral choices, inspiring neurodiverse students to advocate for themselves, and many more. By explaining their cases using a narrative research approach, these writers share compelling stories about the changes that their students have experienced while under their tutelage. Each case is told in a relatable manner, and includes insights about teaching and learning that are unique to the author. By incorporating research from the overlapping fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and language into practice, these authors provide the reader with the impetus needed to begin making a paradigm shift towards educational methods that are student-centered and strength-based. This book demonstrates that there is no one ‘right’ way to translate theory into practice; just ‘your’ way. When learning strategies are appropriately aligned with how children learn and acquire language, educators can truly change the trajectory of their students’ lives and help set them on the path towards life-long fulfilment.
Learning is a Social Justice Issue: Collected Essays in Neuro-Education
Volume 3 in Academic Series
Expected Publication Date: TBD
Editors:
Christopher Merideth
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Heidi Parrett
Price: TBD
Our educational society is at a crossroads. For a relatively small percentage of students, school is a place where they feel safe and nurtured, ready to learn about their options for academic success. For much of the student body, however, school can be a stressful place where children struggle to fit in and dread sitting through unexciting classrooms. The promise of schooling for all is a cause worth championing, as an educated population leads to a greater social fabric. Yet, the manner in which schools have been structured continues to disenfranchise those who do not learn how to survive the system on their own. What if there were a different way of approaching education – by infusing knowledge about what makes us human into how we advocate for children? In this third volume of The Neuro-Education Academic Series, sixteen different authors explore how awareness about the brain, the mind, and language has revolutionized their viewpoint of education. Using a model of Neuro-Education that incorporates research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and language, each practitioner-turned-scholar provides the reader with new ways of approaching teaching from a scientific and clinical perspective. Sample topics of study include re-examining student behavior from a strength-based lens, unpacking the cognitive and cultural trauma surrounding dyscalculia or math phobias, revisiting one’s identity as an adult learner who fights for equity-based causes, and rendering an interpretation of reading that prioritizes visual conceptual learning over pattern-based memorization, among many other subjects. The authors of this anthology believe that learning is a social justice issue because learning opens doors of access for all children towards the promises of long-term education and life-long empowerment. Join these neuro-educators as they translate complex scientific theory and literature into takeaways that adults can use to shift their philosophy about language and learning. In time, all can determine how to unlock the doors of learning for themselves, thus setting off a chain reaction of insights that all serve to prioritize educational equity. Students have long been ready for the revelations presented in this collection to make their way into the modern classroom.
Viconic Language Methods: Brain-Based Learning Strategies
Series Editor: Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D, CCC-SLP
This series is designed to introduce educators and parents to evidence-based learning
strategies that match the visual neurobiological strengths of most students in classrooms today
Learning With a Visual Brain in
an Auditory World, 2nd ed.
Published 2018
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Carole Kaulitz
Mabel Brown
Price: $40.00 (Paperback)
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In today’s educational landscape, greater acceptance of neurodiverse children has led to more robust rates of inclusion in classroom settings. However, children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often present parents and educators with perplexing symptoms. Even though the skills of children with ASD can range from very high to very low, research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and language studies have demonstrated that these individuals possess similar underlying learning systems. Knowledge about these learning systems helps provide direction for choosing effective assessment and intervention methods for helping individuals with ASD learn to behave, to perform academically, and to become socially competent. Learning with a Visual Brain in an Auditory World presents unparalleled insights from Dr. Ellyn Arwood’s understanding of neuro-semantic learning and shares how this knowledge can help adults discern what is happening in the brains of those with ASD. Even though many scholars recognize that individuals with ASD use "visual" ways of thinking, most fail to realize that a visual mental language is different from the visual sensory system of merely “seeing” something. Once this difference is unlocked, the reader starts to view children and their behavior through a new light. In this title, recognized experts on autism Carole Kaulitz and Mabel Brown join Dr. Arwood to demonstrate hands-on techniques that educators and caregivers can start using right away to notice positive changes within their loved ones. This book provides unique applications of Viconic Language Methods™ that are based upon the way that visual thinkers learn best. An ideal resource for parents, teachers, counselors, and speech-language practitioners alike.
Pro-Social Language
Published 2015
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Mabel Brown
Carole Kaulitz
Price: $40.00 (Paperback)
$35.00 (eBook)
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Are you someone who struggles to understand why some children act appropriately in social situations, while others never seem to act their age? Have you ever tried to mold or shape a child's behavior, only to have your efforts backfire? If so, then you are certainly not alone. The most common ways of trying to 'deal' with children when they exhibit antisocial behavior is either to reward them or to punish them. But, these strategies at best only produce short-term changes in behavior, and ultimately do very little to help develop children's capacity to think and seek out positive outcomes when troubles arise. There is a better way to address children's behavior that helps them improve their social thinking about others and consistently make pro-social decisions. This book will show you how. Join nationally-recognized experts on behavior Dr. Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Carole Kaulitz, and Mabel Brown as they walk readers through a series of strategies that educators and parents can use to re-think their approaches to behavior. Each strategy derives from a unique understanding of how children's brains operate, and what kind of nurturing language children need in order to initiate and maintain successful friendships with others. Common myths and misunderstandings about children's behavior are explored throughout each chapter, and readers become empowered to see the strengths and positive attributes that underly each child's actions. Ahead of its time, this book previews many of the theories and practices showcased within Arwood's Neuro-Education Model (ANM), a framework which utilizes neuroscience and cognitive psychology research to provide visual language strategies for children who struggle in social situations. Multiple stories and case studies are provided to show how readers can begin applying these strategies immediately at home or in their classroom, and start to see life-changing transformations within their students and loved ones.
Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Published 2009
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Carole Kaulitz
Mabel Brown
Price: $40.00 (Paperback)
TBD (eBook)
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Research indicates that 95% or more of children, including children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), think with a visual system: by making pictures, movies, and graphics in their minds. However, the vast majority of instruction in schools is provided using auditory – not visual – methods. This discrepancy between the way that most educators teach, and the way that children learn best, has led to a mismatch in our current school system. Despite the best intentions of educators to include individuals with learning differences, many children with autism are not making as much school progress as their neurotypical peers. Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders aims to flip the script: by encouraging adults to think not about what they can provide to neurodiverse children, but instead on what these children’s brains need to thrive. To make such a radical shift in perspective, national expert on autism Dr. Ellyn Arwood advocates for parents, educators, and caregivers of neurodiverse children to think using a visual learning system in order to see the world through the eyes of these young and exceptional individuals. Alongside speech-language pathologist Carole Kaulitz and behavioral-learning consultant Mabel Brown, Dr. Arwood demonstrates how Viconic Language Methods™ can open new doors of learning for children who have struggled in schools or other clinical settings. Join these educational specialists as they usher in the newest movement of brain-based, strength-based visual learning.
Language Function
Published 2011
Author:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Price: $95.00 (Hardcover)
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Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary. However, new research suggests that the majority of English speakers actually think and learn in visual concepts, and that there is a cultural and linguistic mismatch between auditory teaching methods and the way students think and learn. This has important implications for all educators including those who work with students with neurogenic disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorders and ADHD. In her seminal book, Dr. Ellyn Lucas Arwood outlines a revolutionary four-tiered model of how a learner acquires language, and suggests ways to impose visual language functions onto an auditory language like English in order to improve learning for both neurotypical learners and those with neurogenic disabilities. Dr. Arwood provides tried-and-tested intervention strategies that work with all levels of ability, giving readers the knowledge and confidence to teach learners to become more literate in a way that raises learners' abilities to think and problem solve. This book takes a fresh look at how language and literacy interact, and will be of interest to educators and special educators, speech and language pathologists, and other professionals who support language learning and development.
Readings in Language Studies and Applied Linguistics
This series establishes the study of functional language analyses as the cornerstone of
understanding the working of the mind and the neurobiological operations of the human brain
Series Editor: Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D, CCC-SLP
The Language of Respect
Published 2000
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Edmund Young
Price: $40.00 (Paperback)
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Who is a great teacher? Why do children in some classrooms treat others with dignity and respect, while students in other learning environments demean one another and tear each other down? How can adults help children learn to care about coming to school and consistently do their ‘personal best’ work? In The Language of RESPECT, Arwood and Young address these simple, yet profound questions from multiple perspectives and ultimately conclude: a great teacher is someone who nurtures, protects, and supports their students by creating a classroom that functions as a ‘pseudo-family.’ By referencing research about the brain and language, the book is organized so that the reader is afforded a neurobiological and theoretical basis for learning. In conjunction with this theoretical basis, the social and cultural issues of developing language concepts are presented. In alignment with the movement toward greater educational equity, readers are provided numerous strategies to shift their language from authoritarian ways of communicating to authoritative ways to respect the child and the child’s individual learning needs. Together, Arwood and Young hold more than 70 years of combined successful work in assisting all youth to become positive citizens with well-developed moral character. By drawing upon their experiences in a wide variety of educational settings, the authors show educators, parents, and administrators alike how they can model their actions on the principles of RESPECT: the Right of Each Student to Participate in an Environment of Communicative Thoughtfulness. A must-read for anyone looking to adopt a personal communication style that treats others with consideration and esteem.
Pragmaticism:
Theory and Application
Published 1983
Author:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
*Out of print. Previously published by
Aspen Publishers. Limited copies available.
Price: $40.00 (Hardcover)
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During the creation of Arwood’s Neuro-Education Model, Dr. Ellyn Arwood drew upon her decades of experience studying pragmaticism: a philosophy of language and thinking that asserts that learning is a holistic endeavor that is more than just the sum of its parts. Pragmaticism is most commonly associated with the works of Charles Peirce, who in turn viewed language as a series of functions: semantics, pragmatics, and semiotics. In this 1983 title, Dr. Arwood takes up where Peirce left off in the study of pragmaticism – by extending its analysis to the social, cognitive, and linguistic development of both typical children and those experiencing language differences. By introducing additional layers of scientific inquiry into the study of language, such as examining the mind and the brain, Dr. Arwood shares her unique take on how pragmaticism can inform the way that we understand human learning. A must-read for academics interested learning more about applied linguistics and a functional, neurobiological perspective to language acquisition.
Semantic and Pragmatic Language Disorders
Published 1980
Author:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
*Out of print. Previously published by
Aspen Publishers. Limited copies available.
Price: $40.00 (Hardcover)
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In Dr. Ellyn Arwood’s first book, the author explores common causes for language differences in many different children populations. Dr. Arwood utilizes a functional analysis of language in order to understand how children learn, how they acquire language, how they think, and why they act the way they do. In this title the semantic, pragmatic, and semiotic functions of language are explored in great length, and multiple connections are made between the language a child acquires and their corresponding developmental outcomes. Lastly, multiple brain-based language interventions are suggested that foreshadow present-day advancements in scientific understanding.
Semantic and Pragmatic Language Disorders, 2nd Ed.
Published 1991
Author:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
^Out of print. Previously published by
Aspen Publishers. Limited copies available.
Price: $40.00 (Hardcover)
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In this follow-up to the 1980 original title, Dr. Arwood greatly expands upon the study of language acquisition from a functional, neurobiological perspective. Chapter topics include: assessment and identification procedures for specific diagnosed learning problems; assessment of pre-language, language-capable, and language-to-linguistic children; remediation for children of all language function levels; as well as administration and evaluation of essential linguistic considerations, including behavioral inventories and speech act performances. A best-seller in its time among linguistic scholars, this title remains a relevant primer today towards gaining a greater understanding of functional linguistic analysis and intervention.
Tools for Functional Language Assessment and Intervention
Series Editor:
Ellyn Lucas-Arwood, Ed.D, CCC-SLP
These tools are designed to assist the educator and scholar in collecting and
analyzing functional language samples of students and children
Event-Based Pictures I
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Kathy Hinson
Patt Allgood
Price: $100.00 for a set of 50 pictures
Event-Based Pictures II
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Agnes Beveridge-Wavering
Price: $100.00 for a set of 50 pictures
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TEMPRO: Temporal Analysis
of Propositions
Authors:
Ellyn Lucas Arwood
Mary Ann Beggs
Price: $40.00
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