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  • Home Ed. Rhythms

    Home Ed. Rhythms

    I’ve spent a lot of creative energy on a home education rhythm that provides freedom within structure. Instead of suppressing neurodivergent instincts to move, to stim, to dance, to echo, to hyperfocus… What if we really listened to our own capacities? What if we trusted our kids more?

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  • Home Brew Home Education

    Home Brew Home Education

    A record of the books and resources we are using for home education. Everything from science and reading to geography and languages.

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  • “LIFE IS NOT ABOUT READING OUT A BLUEPRINT, IT’S ABOUT CREATING FLEXIBLE RULES AND RESOURCES FROM WHICH DIVERSE FORMS MIGHT EMERGE.” Philip Ball, How Life Really Works via Austin Kleon

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  • This seems like another potential language for whole to part thinking (gestalt cognitive processing): Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe wrote in “Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery,” rewilding pays attention “to the emergent properties of interactions between ‘things’ in ecosystems … a move from linear to systems thinking.” Rewilding: The Radical New Science of […]

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    Continued reading indicated this area of research may have originated with Dr. Barry Prizant and then abandoned by his peers (along with Gestalt Language Processing.) Here is an early study of his (bear in mind this was written a long time ago and is more deficit based than his current work.) PDF (Source)

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  • What is GCP? Gestalt cognitive processing is when experiences are held as primarily episodic memories. Gestalt cognitive processors process events as a “whole” that is made up of very specific parts. They are whole-to-part thinkers. They have a hyper-awareness of specifics and details in events that make up the entirety of the event, episode, or […]

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  • Understanding Perfectionismby Austin Kleon Morgan Schafler says that perfectionists are people who “consistently notice the difference between an ideal and a reality,” and more often than not, have “a compulsion to bridge the gulf between reality and an ideal.” In her view, the perfectionist holds a kind of creative tension that contains an energy capable of creation […]

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  • What does gestalt mean? The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been “placed,” or “put together.” There is no exact equivalent in English. “Form” and “shape” are the usual translations; in psychology the word is often interpreted as “pattern” or “configuration.” via Brittanica ADHD autism gestalt cognitive processing neurodivergence […]

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  • My initial research into GCP seems to originate within the context of SLP who specialize in GLP. One SLP referred to monotropism in relation to GCP. I’ve saved some quotes here, but I don’t completely agree with everything presented as monotropism in this paper. I think this is based on somewhat outdated research and a […]

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  • Questions I’d like to explore… 🔬 Is it perfectionism or is it GCP? Do we get stuck because we see the whole finished thing in our minds? Is it executive function or is it GCP? Do we struggle to find a way in because we are not sequential thinkers and seeing the whole is overwhelming? […]

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