• Sometimes children encounter such obstacles that they begin to close down. This gesture awakens a sense of urgency in a teacher, akin to that of a gardener discovering a wilting plant.

  The Magical Mind of the Young Child
• Engaging the School-Age Mind
• Inspiring the Adolescent and Adult Mind
• Addressing Learning Problems
• Arts Awaken the Mind
• Alternative Education
• Order

Addressing Learning Problems

Working with Cognitive Issues

16. Overcoming Learned Helplessness
17. Classroom Clues to Thinking Problems
18. Introduction to Naturalistic Assessment

Understanding the Alienated Learner

19. Learned Helplessness: Causes, Symptoms, and Cures
20. Children at Risk: Development of Dropouts
21. A Layered Look at the Brain

For all who can sense the urgent needs of some learners for special care and support and who want to know how to help. For parents • teachers • special educators • tutors • counselors • therapists • special education inservice programs • educational lending libraries

16. Overcoming Learned Helplessness

Young children are the most sensitive and, at times, the most resilient age group of all. But all too often, they collapse into a state of learned helplessness in the face of their experiences. This tape explores the impact of abuse, neglect, physical handicaps and parenting problems. Dr. Coulter explains in each situation how helplessness is learned and how we can recognize it. She also discusses many solutions we can work toward as educators, as parents and as members of society.

Audience: a college course for preschool educators, Denver.
93 min. $11.95

17. Classroom Clues to Thinking Problems

Some children twist in their chairs. Others drape across their desks. Some notice everything while others are half asleep. Each body is displaying a set of subtle neurological clues that reveal how that child’s mind works best and what problems it may be having. With humor, stories and clear science, these classroom clues to thinking problems are explored.

Audience: public school regional inservice, upstate New York.
93 min. $11.95

18. Introduction to Naturalistic Assessment

This tape offers inspiring observation and assessment strategies that rekindle the intuitive spark in teachers. Its compassionate approach to child study invites teachers to support one another and generate a wealth of possible strategies for each child. The tape concludes by introducing a radically new way of having a conversation about a child, a way that can awaken a heartfelt understanding.

Audience: school counselors and special education teachers, Boulder, Colorado.
63 min. $9.95

Understanding the Alienated Learner

For all who are saddened by our inability to reach and support increasing numbers of our adolescents and who long for a clearer understanding of the problems and for some strategies that can help. For parents • counselors • program directors • educators • corrections workers • educational & professional lending libraries

19. Learned Helplessness: Causes, Symptoms & Cures

Learning involves staying alert, paying attention and learning to discriminate and reason well. But these skills can break down under too much stress and result in anxious or depressed learned helplessness, a condition resembling delayed stress syndrome. How can we help? This tape presents many very effective strategies. (Note: These strategies rely on a sense of irony and humor not present in children under age 11. For younger children, refer to "Overcoming Learned Helplessness".)

Audience: middle and high school educators, Longmont, Colorado.
93 min. $11.95

20. Children at Risk: Development of Dropouts

Children with weak inner speech cannot reason or control their impulses well. Children who have been shocked in life may resist new learning. Children who live in unsafe environments may be so sensitive to deception and hypocrisy that they reject peers and adults who fall short of perfection. All these children are at risk. This tape offers fresh, hopeful suggestions for understanding and helping them.

Audience: concerned public school educators, Grand Junction, Colorado.
63 min. $9.95

21. A Layered Look at the Brain (two tapes)

With a fascinating look at our layered brain, this two tape lecture discusses Dr. Paul MacLean’s triune model of brain functioning. Dr. MacLean’s research sheds light on empathy and altruism, on delinquent and acting out behaviors and what to do about them, and on how to socialize alienated children and adolescents. With lively and often humorous examples drawn from her years as a special education teacher and director of a school for dropouts, Dr. Coulter relates MacLean’s work to education and the correctional and counseling fields.

Audience: teachers enrolled in a college lecture course with Dr. Coulter through the University of Northern Colorado.
126 min. $19.50 for set (sold as set only)