Teaching the Individual How to Learn How to Learn
Instrumental Enrichment (I.E.), developed by the late Professor Reuven Feuerstein, is a program that effectively improves thinking and learning skills in children and adults with cognitive disabilities caused by a variety of conditions: including stroke, brain injury, ADHD, PTSD, Autism, down syndrome, and aging. In the brain-injured and the elderly, it slows down deterioration and may even reverse cognitive damage.
It is a cognitive therapy program used successfully in over 79 countries during the past 60 years.
The fundamental belief is that intelligence is dynamic and modifiable, not static or fixed.
It can
-Correct deficiencies in fundamental thinking skills
-Develop improved concentration
-Create a longer attention span – learning how to focus
-Restructure cognitive pathways.
I.E. is Reuven Feuerstein’s basic theory of Structural Cognitive modifiability that views the human organism as open, adaptive and wanting to change. His aim (and mine) is to modify the individual, emphasizing self-regulated and autonomous change.
We teach the individual how to learn how to learn. This program provides the mind with the means that it needs to effect change. These proven strategies cause cognitive restructuring and enable the individual to function at a higher level.