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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2009, 04:57:01 AM » |
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Interesting...
Here's an excerpt:
What is Brain Gym?
Movement is a key part of the process of development and learning. Brain Gym is a programme of simple exercises, developed over a 25 year period by a remedial educational specialist, Dr Paul Dennison. He created the movements drawing on the experience of many others. Originally it was created to help children and adults with reading difficulties ( Dr Dennison himself, suffered from dyslexia and difficulties with vision), butand is now used in many areas of education, business, sport, the arts and personal development to improve learning, attention, behavioural skills, body co-ordination and performance .
When can it be used?
Some schools are using it in the classroom as ‘brain break’ activities to focus the whole class, first thing in the morning, after lunch and during lessons. Children with learning difficulties are sometimes given more in-depth programmes. The movements link in with the development of reading, writing and listening etc. so they can be used before starting a specific task. Brain Gym is not used just in schools, it can be used to help with homework or studying, in the workplace or just with all those brain activities that daily life demands of us.
How does it work?
It works on the theory that specific body movements stimulate particular aspects of brain function, and help different areas of the brain to connect, so that the whole brain is used in learning or other activity. Some of the movements are designed to bring about movement across the midline of the body and so connect the left and right sides of the brain. Stress can be a major inhibitor to learning. Some of the exercises help to connect the part of the brain which governs emotions, with the part which produces logic and reasoning and so induce a more relaxed and balanced approach. It has been reported that, amongst others, Brain Gym exercises have helped with such things as confidence, comprehension, concentration, abstract thinking, organisation, copying, memory, mental fatigue, completing tasks, physical balance and co-ordination.
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