Amp Up with the Animals: Amplify Attention-Memory-Processing

AMP Up With The Animals is a series of exercises and lesson plans for parents to use with children who have been diagnosed with symptoms of Autism, ADD, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), and speech-language disorders that effect their learning. Each of the ten chapters in this series focuses on one animal or creature. Parent and child together watch the DVD (available separately) of each animal and the Brain Engineer dancers who act out the animal's movements to original music with charming lyrics. The book includes many photos of children imitating the animals' movements, and follow-up exercises and activities to reinforce the Brain AMP training goal for each chapter and each animal. Explanations of the science behind each brain engineering exercise are provided for parents. [Note that alternative free resources are suggested for those who do not want to purchase the DVDs.] AMP Up is an excellent resource for anyone interested in discovering new ideas about how the brain codes and builds knowledge. You will see how children build from attention to memory, to the four processors of listening, reading, speaking, and writing. You will be able to conceptualize how to improve your own brain amplifiers from the illustrations and explanations provided.