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Brain Shaping Answers

1. Some children enjoy secure attachments,

positive experiences & plentiful enrichment as

they grow. This builds strong neural circuitry in the important

areas of Executive Functioning

2. Other children aren’t so lucky: they don’t have such great

experiences or secure attachments and some children suffer

Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma. Lack of enriching

experiences, poor attachment and adverse experiences and

trauma can all lead to weaker neural circuitry. This means the

child’s skills to focus, regulate feelings, manage impulses and be

flexible are weaker. Is this their fault? No.

Some children don’t develop such strong neural circuitry

due to biological neurodiversity (e.g. autism, dyslexia, DCD,

ADHD) – just the way they were born.