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Neuropsychology and Teaching: The Problem of Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Michael J. Lawson
Michael J. Lawson*
Affiliation:
School of Education, Flinders University
*
School of Education, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001
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Abstract

While there is the likelihood that student, teacher, and psychologist will benefit from neuropsychological work carried out in classrooms, experience suggests that there is often a problem of communication of information between neuropsychologist and teacher. The nature of this problem is discussed here and a means of resolution is suggested. An infomation-processing model of cognition is presented which has been used with parents and teachers in order to provide a means of translation between the brain/processing schema of the neuropsychologist and the teaching schema of the teacher. A checklist of questions that focuses the attention of both teacher and psychologist on potential problem areas in each of the phases of the model is also presented.

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Research Article
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , May 1992 , pp. 9 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1992

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