Hemispheres Movement Balance and Learning: Screening Tests and Movement Programmes
The Hemispheres Movement, Balance and Learning is a programme that is based on sound clinical research and experience. It offers non clinicians some skills to help identify core neuromotor weaknesses that if left undetected can begin to really impact on a child's learning. Neuromotor weaknesses such as retention of key primitive reflexes (ATNR), evidence of asymmetry that can lead to immature laterality, crossing midline, spatial awareness and balance.
Whilst these skills impact on physical development, they play a key role in the integration of the brain for thinking and learning. The movement programme is one with a difference. The 6 weeks programme is different for each age group. It is a structured programme that inherently offers consistency, challenge and repetition, the ingredience needed by the brain to create real changes in how the brain and body communicate.
The two different programmes offer:
What makes this programme different?
The Hemispheres Movement, Balance and Learning is a programme that is based on sound clinical research and experience. It offers non clinicians some skills to help identify core neuromotor weaknesses that if left undetected can begin to really impact on a child's learning. Neuromotor weaknesses such as retention of key primitive reflexes (ATNR), evidence of asymmetry that can lead to immature laterality, crossing midline, spatial awareness and balance.
Whilst these skills impact on physical development, they play a key role in the integration of the brain for thinking and learning. The movement programme is one with a difference. The 6 weeks programme is different for each age group. It is a structured programme that inherently offers consistency, challenge and repetition, the ingredience needed by the brain to create real changes in how the brain and body communicate.
Does the programme work?
47 children completed the initial study at Yateley Manor School in Hampshire. The children were assessed pre and post treatment, controlled groups were used to demonstrate the sensitivity of the tool and the degree of change following treatment. The movement programme was completed at home under the guidance of the parents, daily for 6 weeks. The programme takes approximately 10 -15 minutes a day. All the children made statistically significant improvement following treatment, greater change was observed in the boys compared to the girls especially in stability, spatial awareness and posture. Both boys and girls showed statistically significant improvement in balance, handwriting legibility and speed. Studies are ongoing.
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