Science has shown that our brains are changeable.

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CHALFONT, Pa.—. ATG Learning Academy, a licensed 501(c)(3) Private Academic & Neuroplasticity School in Bucks County serving grades first-12th, specializing in cognitive repair for students with learning difficulties.

About ATG Learning Academy
Approximately one in five U.S. children have learning and attention issues that affect their ability to learn in conventional educational settings. Students with learning difficulties, particularly those in the public school system, are often at risk of not receiving the attention and personalized schooling they need to succeed. At ATG, students are taught the way they learn best, allowing them to unlock their full academic, cognitive and societal potential.

ATG Learning Academy specializes in individualized learning and support for children with learning difficulties. The school provides individualized learning in a safe environment, so students with learning difficulties can achieve their academic goals. As a licensed 501(c)(3) Private Academic & Neuroplasticity School, ATG depends on support from the community in order to provide the best setting for education possible for their students.

Pennsylvania Special Education Hearing Officer Final Decision and Order ATG incorporates Arrowsmith, a cognitive-based training program (CBTP) into its regular academic course work. The CBTP focuses on nineteen brain areas and is based on the premise that learning difficulties can be addressed by identifying and strengthening cognitive functions that underlie learning. The goal is to strengthen learning capacities rather than teach compensation for specific learning difficulties.

About Arrowsmith Program Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity, is the brain’s ability to change both its physical structure and its functional organization in response to training and experience – to grow dendrites (the branch like structures on the cell body of the neuron which receive signals coming from other neurons), to form new neural connections, to strengthen existing connections, to grow new neurons, to increase neurotransmitters – all of which fundamentally change the brain’s capacity to learn and to function, and this can happen throughout the lifespan.

What makes the Arrowsmith Program unique from other programs for students with learning difficulties?
The Arrowsmith Program is capacity based, in that its goal is to change the student’s capacity to learn, rather than compensatory which tries to work around the problem. Strengthening these weaker capacities, it is hypothesized, increases the overall functioning of these specific cognitive areas, allowing them to be used more effectively for learning. Traditional approaches for the most part are ‘work-arounds’ or compensatory – for example, if you have a poor memory making an audio recording of your lectures so you can go over the material that you were unable to retain in memory, or if you cannot write, using voice recognition software – they do not address the root cause of the problem but try to find ways around the problem.

What is the goal of the Programs?
The goal of this approach is to allow the student to proceed through his or her academic and vocational career with strengthened cognitive functioning and to succeed where before they struggled and often failed. The student can understand, absorb, retain, process and use the content, laying the foundation for learning by strengthening critical cognitive functions such as reasoning, thinking, planning, problem solving, visual memory for symbol patterns, auditory memory for facts and instructions, visual memory for objects such as landmarks and faces, number sense, non-verbal problem solving required for effective social interaction, spatial reasoning necessary for navigating one’s way, and learning motor plans involved in writing and reading. While ATG Learning Academy uses the newly acquired ability while teaching academics to the students. The Arrowsmith Program strengthens the student’s ability to learn through a range of specific programs so that learning can proceed easily and efficiently.

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Kathleen Smookler Founder & CEO
3400 Pickertown Rd Chalfont PA 18914
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