Children often enjoy their time daydreaming and find it more tedious to have to participate in real-life one-on-one social interactions, further perpetuating social skills deficits.

A new study published last month in JAMA Psychiatry brings exciting opportunities for those who suffer from anxiety disorders.

As with most of the human body the mechanism that creates our voice is an amazing instrument.

HELP! Tiktok says I have ________!

For the longest time, we were taught that there were 5 senses; vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. In more recent years, research has identified and added proprioception, vestibular, and interoception senses to that list.

Video games and gaming systems have exponentially grown in popularity over the past several decades; and, like many “new” things, the pushback against gaming has amplified almost as fast as its popularity.

One significant effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among younger children, is a limited understanding of what it was they just lived through.

As Insight Collective resumes their Children’s Friendship Groups, it reminds me of the importance of addressing social communication skills early in children with Autism as they begin their treatment programs.

Did you ever have those moments when you can't get your words out? You stumble on sounds or parts of words, or even have trouble finishing your sentences.

Screen time has been a hot topic for many years. With the increase in screen time resulting from the pandemic, many parents are left questioning whether they are hindering their child’s development by allowing more screen time.

Selective mutism is more than introversion or shyness. It is a condition in which an individual has the cognitive and physical ability to speak but does not do so in certain situations due to substantial anxiety.

Personality development is a topic I’ve been well-versed in for several years, and it is a domain of psychology that I am proud to consider an expertise.

Many years of research in cognitive psychology (or the study of things that happen in your brain) can help to provide tips and tricks to improve learning within a classroom.

Raising kids to speak more than one language can offer them several benefits.

Children with visual spatial processing deficits present unique learning challenges that are often undetected by parents and teachers, yet result in significant impairments.

Dr. Boxer was recently interviewed by Dr. Gwen Palafox regarding what exactly he does as a neuropsychologist, including how results from neuropsychological assessments serve as road maps to efficiently support an individual.

Given the current social climate of our country, the staff at Insight Collective want to provide support to our friends, family, and larger community by sharing resources on how to navigate our current life stressors and the steps we can take to make lasting change.

In Madison, Wisconsin, lawmakers are one step closer to creating a guidebook for parents and school districts to help students with dyslexia. A bill passed the State Assembly Tuesday which would require the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to create a handbook on how to detect and assist students with dyslexia and other reading conditions.

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How much does it cost to build educational games with all the flair and polish of their commercial counterparts? $10 million? $13 million?

Try $100 million. That’s roughly how much Age of Learning estimates it will have spent by the end of this year on “Adventure Academy,” a multiplayer online game to teach elementary- and middle-school age children subjects including math, social studies and language arts. The game, publicly available today, works on web browsers and iOS and Android mobile devices.

For more information about the game, please refer to this article. For a direct link to “Adventure Academy,” please click here.

In a new pilot study, adults with autism showed real-life, functional improvements following a virtual reality (VR) treatment approach in which they were gradually exposed to their fears. The VR treatment was coupled with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Fears and phobias are common in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and these can have a significant impact on their ability to carry out daily activities. Graded exposure to anxiety-causing stimuli is a recognized approach for treating fears and phobias in the non-autistic population. But it has been assumed that this method would present special difficulties for people with ASD, as real-life exposure could potentially be too upsetting to allow treatment to take place. To address this, the research team developed an anxiety-targeting intervention that combined cognitive behavioral therapy with immersive virtual reality exposure.

To read more about the research conducted, please visit this website.