Comment by brightball

Comment by brightball 2 days ago

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Analog clocks are interesting in that they exercise your brain when you read them. You have to do calculation (what is the number system for each hand), spatial reasoning (where is each hand) and categorization (what is each hand).

There’s a program called Arrowsmith that has a summer program called the Cognitive Intensive Program. It’s basically 3-4 hours a day of speed reading analog clock for 7 weeks. You start out at 2 handed and work up to 8 handed.

Changed my son’s life. He was a completely different student afterwards, for the better.

1718627440 a day ago

> Analog clocks are interesting in that they exercise your brain when you read them. You have to do calculation

Interesting, for me it is the opposite. With a digital clock I need to do a division/comparison to know how much part of the day/hour has already passed. With an analog clock I can read a proportion directly.

msteffen 2 days ago
  • komali2 2 days ago

    I kinda rabbit holed on this and it seems to be a very lucrative scam

    https://medium.com/myndplan/myndplan-9961a084f750

    • brightball 6 hours ago

      All good points, particularly the control group piece. Scrutinizing control groups makes it easy to invalidate most studies about treatments in this space because control groups are so difficult to assemble. You should see the variance in autism spectrum.

      It still worked for my son and my friend’s two children.

      I have no affiliation with the program at all. I talk about it because it worked for us.

      I latched onto it because I know the type of things that I have struggled with my entire life, but just learned a lot of coping mechanisms. I’m also very self aware. I pay a lot of attention to how my own brain works because of the need to develop those coping mechanisms. When I saw the full program, everything made perfect sense to me and I absolutely believe that it would have helped me when I was younger.

      Had I been able to tolerate working half days for 7 weeks, I would have participated in the program myself.

  • jasonwatkinspdx 2 days ago

    Just $6k to change your life by speed reading clocks for 3 hours a day for two months...

    Needless to say this trips my crank/cult smell meter.

    • brightball 2 days ago

      That is the program, yes. I’m not trying to sell you on it, just sharing our experience.

      I found out about it from one of my neighbors who has two children with dysgraphia who did the full time program for 3 years each. He tells everybody about it.

      I toured that location when my son was going into 3rd grade and we ended up sending doing just the summer program after 7th grade. What I saw on the tour would have helped me when I was a kid and my sons brain seems to work just like mine.

      • jasonwatkinspdx 2 days ago

        If you threatened me with 3+ hours a day of speed reading clocks instead of a normal summer I'd probably double down on effort too. And probably not in a way that's healthy long term.

komali2 2 days ago

What information does an 8 handed clock convey?

CGamesPlay 2 days ago

Hours, minutes, seconds, degrees, arcminutes, arcseconds... I could try to read 6, but honestly I doubt I'd even be able to see the arcseconds hand, it would be moving so quickly.