Is your teenager disorganised?
The Symbolic Thinking area of our brain allows us to understand words. It helps teenagers to develop and maintain plans and strategies through the use of language. If there is a problem in this area they will struggle to identify and prioritise important information. A weakness in this cognitive area will affect their ability to read well, speak fluently, write well, and do maths and science.
Does your teenager have trouble:
- identifying the theme of a story
- identifying the meaning of words from the context
- focusing their attention in language based tasks
- prioritising information in the order of its importance
- maintaining attention - they might get labelled as having a short attention span
- making their own decisions and appear passive
- being flexible
- planning activities
- starting a task
- being organised
- understanding what other people are talking about, and/or
- understanding what they are reading?
How does the Arrowsmith Program help teenagers understand language better and become more organised?
Doing this exercise will:
- enable your teenager to improve their ability to grasp the main point of written and spoken material
- enable your teenager to identify the main point in written and spoken material
- develop your teenager's capacity to express ideas more clearly
- develop your teenager's capacity to make decisions and be self directed
- strengthen your teenager's capacity to have initiative
- enable your teenager to remain focused on tasks until completion.
If Symbolic Thinking is a problem for your teenager or a teenager you know:
- call Joanne on 04 100 451 34
- contact us
- or connect on Facebook
for a no obligations chat about how the Arrowsmith Program can strengthen your teenagers ability to understand language based tasks