Nonverbal in a Humanistic Program

Robert Koch jeane K. Rickman Los Alamos Public Schools Los Alamos, New Mexico One is mandated by strong urges to act according to what is his or her self-image, even when this action is clearly self-defeating. Thus if a student believes, I'm stupid; it is psychologically more important to prove that he or she is stupid than to try to change things. The Los Alamos program for remedial reading strives to raise the student's self-image. freeing him or her to learn to read. This article will not explain the Gestalt psychology, the use of Transactional Analysis, etc., that is used to help the children shape themselves up to the point where they can learn to read; rather it will deal with the nonverbal training which is an important part of the program. Though the schools have always attended to the three R's, vital things have been ignored and are included in our program

Developmental psychology · Humanism · Humanistic education · Mathematics education · Nonverbal communication · Pedagogy · Child Therapy and Development · Philosophy · Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy