Best practice? Advice provided to teachers about the use of Brain Gym® in Australian schools

J Stephenson - Australian Journal of Education, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Perceptual motor programs continue to be used in Australian schools despite evidence
showing they do not influence academic learning. Brain Gym® is one perceptual motor …

Reported prevalence by Australian special educators of evidence-based instructional practices

M Carter, J Stephenson, I Strnadová - Australasian Journal of Special …, 2011 - cambridge.org
This research examined the reported level of implementation of eight practices in a national
sample of Australian special education teachers, replicating the North American study of …

[PDF][PDF] The effectiveness of brain gym and brain training intervention on working memory performance of student with learning disability

B Abduh, MM Tahar - Journal of ICSAR, 2018 - core.ac.uk
Learning disability is commonly associated with a weak working memory function of a
student that impacts his or her performance in school. This study aims to identify the effective …

Architecture of signature miRNA regulatory networks in cancer chemoprevention

S Nair, ANT Kong - Current Pharmacology Reports, 2015 - Springer
With new high-throughput technologies and superior computational power available for
application to current pharmacology research, biomarker discovery has probably entered its …

Why can'ta teacher be more like a scientist? Science, pseudoscience and the art of teaching

M Carter, K Wheldall - Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2008 - cambridge.org
In this article, the authors argue the case for scientific evidenced‐based practice in
education. They consider what differentiates science from pseudoscience and what sources …

Reconstructing a complex financial network using compressed sensing based on low-frequency time series data

J Si, J Zhou, X Gao, W Ze, W Tao, Y Zhao - Finance Research Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Financial time series data are often used to construct financial complex networks for
studying price volatility transmission, risk diffusion and asset portfolio and so on. High …

Bridging topological and functional information in protein interaction networks by short loops profiling

SS Chung, A Pandini, A Annibale, ACC Coolen… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Protein-protein interaction networks (PPINs) have been employed to identify potential novel
interconnections between proteins as well as crucial cellular functions. In this study we …

Effectiveness of brain gym activities in enhancing writing performance of grade I pupils

JM Ocampo Jr, LP Varela, LV Ocampo - Sosiohumanika, 2017 - journals.mindamas.com
There are many factors that influence academic performance of students. Some of these are
related to personological, sociological, and psychological factors. In recent years, academic …

Does vision therapy for visual information processing improve academic performance? A randomised clinical trial

TR Fricke, AB Metha, DP Anderson… - Ophthalmic and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To determine whether a typical vision therapy (VT) programme designed to
improve visual information processing (VIP) skills is effective in improving these skills and/or …

Miracles take a little longer: Science, commercialisation, cures and the Dore program

J Stephenson, K Wheldall - Australasian Journal of Special …, 2008 - cambridge.org
In this article, the evidence regarding a proposed 'cure'for dyslexia and other, arguably
related, conditions is examined critically. The origins and history of the Dore program and its …