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Adventures of Aimi
Of course, various branches of the family may never agree about who-looks-like-who and who-takes-after-who.
So when Aimi made her appearance (granddaughter of Dr. Briggs), the excitement could hardly be contained. Her birth also afforded an opportunity—an ongoing real-time laboratory, if you will—to discover how to help Aimi get a jump-start on understanding more about her brain early on in life.
Such knowledge would offer her choices regarding how to use her brain “by design” and be more successful earlier than might otherwise be the case.
And if this could happen for Aimi, maybe it could happen for other children who have not had the opportunity to become acquainted with their brain—up
front and personal.
The challenge: how to do this.
The authors—Arlene R. Taylor, PhD, a brain-function specialist, and Sharlet M. Briggs, PhD, a clinical psychologist—discussed this at length and concluded the best approach would be to select key pieces of brain- function research to incorporate into stories—because the human brain (both young and not-so-young) loves and learns best from stories!
They decided to begin with the senses and the three most commonly talked about sensory systems.
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