Barbara Arrowsmith Young

Quick Facts

Full Name	Barbara Arrowsmith Young
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Nov 28, 1951(1951-11-28)
Age	73
Birthplace	Toronto
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Scorpio

Barbara Arrowsmith Young Biography

Barbara Arrowsmith Young is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on November 28, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Arrowsmith Young was born in Toronto on the 28th of November 1951, to Jack as well as Barbara Young. Their father worked as an electrician working with Canadian General Electric. Her mother was an educator. When she was a kid, she had extraordinary auditory and visual memory, however it was accompanied by serious deficiencies in other areas such as dyscalculia and dyslexia as well as difficulties in spatial thinking, logic and the ability to perceive kinesthetics. With the assistance of her mother, she eventually became proficient in reading and math skills. However, she struggled through high school and elementary school.

Arrowsmith Young Cohen and Cohen were married in 1980. They created in 1980 the Arrowswmith School for disabled children in Toronto in the same year. The school’s curriculum was based upon the exercises Arrowsmith Young had developed for herself, and became known in Arrowsmith Program. Arrowsmith Program. The school was named after the paternal grandparents of her (born Louie May Arrowsmith in 1883) who was a child and had been among the first colonists of Creston, British Columbia. The Toronto school grew gradually and in 1991 , she as well as Cohen started another institution situated in Brooklyn, New York. It was in the process of being shut down. Toronto branch was closed and shut down. The New York school folded a few years later. And it was in the year 1994 that Arrowsmith Young married Cohen. wedding ended. Cohen returned to Toronto and opened the original school. Cohen continued to live in New York and died there in the year 2000.

The re-opened Arrowsmith School in Toronto attracted increasing numbers of students and eventually opened other branches. The Arrowsmith Program was also franchised to other private schools and in some public ones as well. In 2012 she published The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, an autobiographical account of how she overcame her own severe learning disabilities combined with 30 case studies of learning disabled children who she says overcame similar problems by using her method.

In 1977 she had met Joshua Cohen, a PhD. OISE student. OISE who also suffered from difficulties with learning and operated an enlightened clinic for disabled children. Cohen brought her into the research that was done by Alexander Luria. In the words of Arrowsmith Young, Luria’s 1971 book The Man with the Shattered World that chronicled the recovery from his treatment of brain injured soldier Lev Zasetsky was profoundly influential on her as was the work of Mark Rosenzweig in the field of neuroplasticity. Based on the theories from Luria and Rosenzweig she developed an exercise routine in 1978, which she says ultimately helped her overcome her learning difficulties.

Barbara Arrowsmith Young Net Worth

Barbara Arrowsmith Young is one of the richest Author from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barbara Arrowsmith Young 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Barbara Arrowsmith Young (born November 28th 1951) is an Canadian author educator, entrepreneur, and lecturer. She was the creator of Toronto’s Arrowsmith School in Toronto and the controversial Arrowsmith Program which forms the base of the school’s education method. In 2012, she released The Woman Who Changed Her Brain that combines an autobiographical story of her own severely deficient learning abilities and the strategy she devised to overcome them. She also provides research on learning disabled students who, she claims, have overcome similar issues employing her method.

Despite her difficulties with learning and the requirement to read research papers for 20 times before she could fully comprehend the information, she was awarded an BA.Sc on child development at the University of Guelph in 1974. After graduation, she taught for an additional two years, as head of school of the school’s laboratory before pursuing an advanced master’s degree with applied psychological studies at Toronto’s University’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). She finished the Masters dissertation, a Follow- up investigation of a case study in 1982. It looked at the development of 62 students who were previously deemed to be learning disabled by the OISE’s educational clinic.

Her method, which was the subject of a 2008 CBC documentary Fixing My Brain, has proved controversial. Psychiatrist Norman Doidge devoted one of the chapters in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself, to Arrowsmith Young and described her approach as “an important discovery”. However, the Arrowsmith Program has been criticized by several neuroscientists, psychologists and cognitive scientists, including Anne Castles, Max Coltheart, Emma Burrows and Linda Siegel, for basing its claims on anecdotal evidence. They have noted that there have been no peer-reviewed studies published which use randomized controlled trials to evaluate whether it is actually more effective than any other “brain training” programs.

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