Visual Attention Precedes Mental Focus: Yes, No, Maybe?
Absolutely, undeniably “YES”. Teachers have you ever noticed the students with the most difficulty attending, self-regulating and staying seated are usually students with wandering eyes?
Wandering eyes typically precedes wandering hands and sometimes whole bodies.
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Put Two Hands on the Wheel and Drive: 9 Intrinsic Factors Influencing Self-Regulation
We do have influence over our ability to self-regulate. We are not born with good self-regulation to get through life seamlessly, we need to work at it. Some of us need to work harder. Those with brain-based disorders and sensory processing challenges need help to learn how to self-regulate; yet the brain’s infinite neural plasticity (ability to change) makes adaptive self-regulation possible.
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