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Neurodevelopmental Disorders And Academic Performance

Understanding how neurodevelopmental disorders and academic performance are related is important for educators and therapists supporting student participation across school settings. Students often present with a range of developmental characteristics that influence learning, classroom engagement, and access to instruction. Research that examines multiple neurodevelopmental conditions together provides valuable insight into how these factors interact within […]

February 18, 2026/by yourtherapysource

Brain Breaks During Testing or Before – 10 Easy Physical Activities

10 Physical Activities to Get the Brain Reading for Testing Research has shown that there are positive benefits for the brain from physical activity including academic achievement on test scores. With common core and state tests coming up, here are 10 physical activity suggestions to get the brain ready for testing or for brain breaks […]

March 9, 2020/by Your Therapy Source

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Growth Mindset and Academic Achievement

A growth mindset is a theory developed by psychologist Carol Dweck who explains mindset as a self-perception or “self-theory” that people hold about themselves. For example, it is believing that you are smart or not smart, good athlete or bad athlete, good at knitting or stink at knitting. Recent research looked at the relationship between a growth […]

December 5, 2018/by yourtherapysource

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Research: Academic Benefits of Recess

A study was recently published on 186 Finnish children in grades 1-3 looking at the relationships between: different types of physical activity/sedentary behavior and reading/arithmetic skills. The results indicated the following: 1. higher levels of physical activity at recess were related to better reading skills 2. participation in organized sports was linked to higher arithmetic test scores […]

September 12, 2014/by Your Therapy Source

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Physical Fitness, Academics and Middle School

Physical Fitness, Academics and Middle School Research was published on 838 middle school students who were assessed with the FITNESSGRAM and the Illinois Standardized Assessment Tests. The results indicated the following: “1. Boys in the Healthy Fitness Zone (HFZ) for aerobic fitness or muscular endurance were 2.5 to 3 times more likely to pass their […]

May 1, 2013/by Your Therapy Source

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