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Origins

The 1970s

The Man With a Shattered World Book Cover

1977

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young reads Luria’s book, The Man With A Shattered World, and identifies the source of her learning disabilities. 

Mark Rosenzweig

1977

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young reads Mark Rosenzweig’s research on ‘activity-dependent plasticity’ which leads to the creation of cognitive exercises to drive neuroplastic change to overcome her learning disabilities. 

1995

1978

The cognitive exercises that are the foundation of the Arrowsmith Program began to be developed by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young and were first offered to students with learning disabilities in an after-school learning centre.