Is anyone familiar with crossroads institute?

I don’t know anything about Crossroads, but it looked interesting. I was particularly intrigued by the section on memory.

One thing the website made me realize is my son could have an Intermediate Memory problem. The site explained that low reverse digit span is related to intermediate memory problems (my son tested well on span, but low on reverse digit span), and the site also mentioned that intermediate memory has an affect on expressive language (also an area of weakness for my son). I know my son has some memory issues, but I haven’t exactly been able to pinpoint exactly where his problems may be. This may be a good direction to start with (working on reverse digit span).

I thought it was interesting how all of this interconnected.

Laura,

If you learn more about what they do let me know.

I am intrigued by the idea of brain plasticity and movement. There seems to be a connection there. Learning through movement seems to be helping my son but I would like to know more.

Linda

When I was pregnant, a nurse told me that one of the reasons smoking hurts the fetus (NO, I did NOT!) is because the chemicals in the ciggie cause movement of the fetus to be greatly reduced, and it is believed that this hampers brain development as well as growth — not sure of the level of research backing this up, but it IS interesting, isn’t it?

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That is interesting. I have mentioned the integrating mind brain and body work that we are doing that is similar to brain gym.

This is a quote that almost knocked me off my chair.

“The central nervous system is extremely fluid in young children and can be easily affected by the environment. Movement, in the first few months of a child’s life has greater input than at any other time. A limitation of movment at the early age restricts learning. Learning how to move begins with this sequence, now known to occur BEFORE birth..”

My son was in a foot brace when he was a baby because his foot was severely turned in. I wonder if that restriction of movement had some affect on his development.

Just one more thing to question.

Really hard to know. My sister had braces on both legs for the same thing without any undue effects. Yet, I know that for my son I have been told over and over again that auditory deprivation due to low grade undiagnosed ear infections have played a role in his LD. He probably was at risk with a profile of auditory weaknesses. I see the same weaknesses in my daughter, who is not LD and is a straight A student. In otherwords, sometimes small things make a difference if a kid already is genetically vulnerable. I

Wouldn’t it be nice to have answers. I still can’t figure out how my son ended up with such a complicated set of LDs when there is no history of LD on either side of the family.

Beth

Yes, but the LD DOES often go with gifts, and your son is definitely that profile, Beth…are there gifted types on both/either side? I can see a thin line between myself and my son, much enhanced in my case by birth order, sex, and early experiences…plus he has some ‘dad genes’ when it comes to lexic and sequencing abilities, whereas I am hyperlexic. Yet son’s speech was highly advanced (simple sentences from 12 mos and I’m SURE he understood speech way before that) just as mine was — only the symbols were a problem. (A Huge problem!)

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We had the same experience with talking very young.

My son has every single deficit and gift that my husband and I have, and my husband and I are complete opposites.

I can’t figure out how so much fits into such a little person..