Join us for this special event on April 6th
SYMPOSIUM 2016
NEUROSCIENCES ÉDUCATIONNELLES : COGNITION,
CERVEAU ET TROUBLES D’APPRENTISSAGE
EDUCATIONNAL NEUROSCIENCE: COGNITION, BRAIN
AND LEARNING DISABILITIES
Julien Mercier, Ph.D., Line Laplante, Ph.D., Mélanie Bédard,
Université du Québec à Montréal
Overview
Learning disabilities, by definition, have a neurological origin. Historically, since
many decades, researchers from the fields of medicine, neuroscience,
neuropsychology, etc. document the neurological aspects of these disabilities.
Recent advances in neuroscience increase the likeliness of considerable
contributions of neuroscience to education, particularly concerning teaching
practices with students who have a learning disability. However, at this time,
pedagogical and remedial instruction practices inspired by neuroscience
research are not always supported by all the scientific evidence needed to
ensure their effectiveness. They sometimes also neglect the essential
interdisciplinary nature of the perspective of educational neuroscience.
This symposium aims to describe the state of the art of the field of educational
neuroscience as to the current and future impact of neuroscience on teaching
and remedial instruction practices regarding learning disabilities.
Through examples of interventions suggested by research, the symposium will
identify the elements necessary to establish the research-based value of
practices stemming from educational neuroscience research, which by their
absence in many current interventions, raise the need for additional research
results, and highlight the importance for educators to be constantly cautious.