![]() Freeman, MEd and Certified Brain Gym Consultant writes of effectively treating children with autism, cerebral palsy, ADD, ADHD, PDD-NOS, Angelman’s Syndrome, speech impairment, blindness, and deafness with Brain Gym exercises. On the website Epidemic Answers, Cecilia K. Therapists report that Brain Gym is effective with autistic patients inhibiting tantrums. Neurophysiologist Carla Hannaford, PhD, writes in Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head, “Brain Gym facilitates each step of the process by waking up the mind/body system, and bringing it to learning readiness.” ![]() As such, they’ve been effective for the treatment of autism, processing disorders and traumatic brain injury. “Even though it is not clear yet ‘why’ these movements work so well,” it says, “they often bring about dramatic improvements.”īrain Gym exercises enhance concentration and focus, academic functioning (including reading, math and test-taking skills), physical coordination, interpersonal skills, and memory. The Educational Kinesiology Foundation collects reports of the parents, therapists, and educators who say they’ve seen marked improvement in students and patients who’ve implemented the exercises. The Dennisons operate the Educational Kinesiology Foundation, which licenses curricula and resources based on Brain Gym, and trains parents, therapists, and educators on how best to implement them.Īccording to the foundation’s website, the Brain Gym movements “recall the movements naturally done during the first years of life when learning to coordinate the eyes, ears, hands, and whole body.” Brain Gym has been widely used in Great Britain’s school system and currently has licensed faculty in the US, Canada, Indonesia, China, Spain, and other countries. Dennison, an artist and movement educator. The exercises were developed in the 1980s by educator Paul E. ![]() We are proud to be the only child care center in Boulder, CO using brain gym to improve the lives of our children and their families.Brain Gym is a set of 26 movement exercises designed to improve cognitive function in children and adults. Mary is an inspiring example of the effectiveness and joyous experiences BRAIN GYM ® is bringing to all these children at YWCA. She reaches for my hand so I can help her use the movements. She has moved from having us do all the movements with her, to initiating them herself. Now, when she sees it is BRAIN GYM ® time, she runs over and plops herself on the floor to indicate she is ready for the movements. Babbling sounds are emerging as confidence and gestures accompany her efforts for increases speech. She is babbling more each day and makes efforts to speak to us. After 2 weeks of using BRAIN GYM ® Mary said the word “ball” when we were playing. We knew this adorable little girl was experiencing a very stressful home life and did not know how to help her use words to begin to express herself. Her speech development before we started BRAIN GYM ® was delayed. “Mary, 2 1/2 years old, was not speaking any words, nor babbling. We hope to continue to spread the word and joyous experiences BRAIN GYM ® is bringing to all these children at YWCA.” ![]() A safe and secure child, is a child that can continue to develop normally which prevents developmental delays and specific learning challenges. “BRAIN GYM ® saved our sanity and supported Vicky and her family to be on the road to safe, secure and happiness at day care and home. “She became able to self-soothe, sleep on her own, and was calmer and happier.” ![]() She could crawl around and play with the toys and interact with the adults and other infants with more ease and not crying and screaming to be picked up and carried around constantly.”Įach day the teachers did BRAIN GYM ® with Vicky. After one morning of doing BRAIN GYM ® with Vicky, her behavior changed dramatically. No matter what we tried, she screamed and cried the entire day, unless she was carried around in our arms. Vicky came to the center daily and cried incessantly, was impossible to soothe and calm down. ![]()
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