Developmental Movements can transform any child's ability to learn with ease, enjoyment and success
Schools /
Ed. Psychologists
When an Educational Psychologist has made their assessment for learning and/or behavioural challenges, I offer help to improve the challenges for Schools and Parents with easy, fun and effective techniques.
At my private practice, I only assess for retained reflexes which can explain why learning / behavioural challenges are present.
Schools / LSE's
If your school is looking for an easy and effective way to improve learning with children who are struggling or disruptive in the classroom, I can offer some short training sessions to a group of teachers that will help make a significant difference in the classroom. Children love to move, so give them developmental movements to help their learning at the same time
One to One Sessions
I offer One to One sessions privately, or with a small group of children in a School, to help improve their ability to learn with ease, confidence and enjoyment.
The sessions are personalised to the particular needs of the child, or children, and the movements are done at home every day for no more than 10 minutes. You will notice great changes quickly.
Child Reflexes
Retained Primitive reflexes are most likely to be a major root cause of learning challenges in the classroom. Inhibiting them can make profound improvements to a child's ability to be able to learn. I can help. Movement is the most natural way to develop the sensory system and connect the brain to help overcome learning challenges.
Courses
I offer specialised training courses in how to inhibit any retained reflex using simple and fun movements. The courses have a good amount of theory, and plenty of practical techniques to take back into schools, or therapy centres. I highly recommend this to all schools. Training SpLD teachers in the UK say they wouldn't be without these simple techniques.
If children are struggling, or failing, in education, I offer easy, fun and effective solutions with lifelong results.
I have been working successfully with learning challenges for over 20 years. My area of knowledge and techniques are unique in Malta, and I'm hoping the information on my website will help Parents, Teachers, Child development therapists, Educational Psychologists, O.T’s and Speech and Language therapists understand the importance of retained Childhood Primitive reflexes with children who are falling behind in school, and not reaching expected developmental milestones.
My aim is to share my knowledge with the Education system, Teachers, Parents OT's and anyone else who works with children who are struggling or failing to thrive in the classroom. Everyone deserves to have equal opportunities to enjoy and succeed during their educational years, and using developmental movements can help achieve this in a fun and easy way.
Movement is the key to unlocking the ability to learn by stimulating the sensory system that creates and strengthens the neural connections throughout the brain. Whatever is holding a child back from achieving higher grades can be improved using developmental movements. Movement can transform their ability to be able to learn with ease, confidence and success, and they will improve their grades more quickly, and in an enjoyable way.
Some things that seem to be too easy are not always believed can work, and some people are not willing to try. I would like change this thought about the value, and power, of movement, as I have experienced with so many, and with all age groups.
If anyone is interested in a presentation, or a training course, please contact me.
These areas that can be improved using developmental movements:
Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD / ADD
Any Learning challenges
Autism
Cerebral palsy
Inclusion programmes
Needing new neural connections throughout the brain
Children not reaching Attainment levels
Reading and Writing difficulties
Below Chronological age
Speech & Language delays
Emotional / Social issues
Developmental / Global delays
Children / Adults with Special Needs
Baby & Infant developmental problems
Neurological issues
Early Years developmental challenges
Sensory / Motor challenges
Mental Health Issues
'I can't do it'
Wanting to understand the Mind / body connection
Psychological reversal issues
Negative self talk / beliefs
Challenges in Early Year's Nurseries
Phobias / OCD / Anxiety
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stress
Brain injury / damage
Rehabilitation after head/brain trauma, making new connections
Stroke patients, improving movement and co-ordination
Stroke patients; improving movement and co-ordination
I teach movements to interested teachers in schools that they can use in the classroom, or in the gym, for only 10 - 15 minutes a day for a short period of time that will provide profound improvements all learning styles and improve self-confidence, better management of emotions and behaviour which will lead to higher grades in end of year exam results.
Teachers report they have seen amazing and quick changes in their classrooms with improvements in Reading, Writing, Attention, Focus, Comprehension, Listening, Memory, being able to sit still for longer, and many more challenges teachers are having to face in their classroom. Children say they love the movements, and ask for them.
This will be one of the top investments a school can make to help develop children and give them the resources to be able to learn for life in a simple, effective and most natural way. A world of possibilities and opportunities open up when learning becomes easy and successful. ‘I cannot do it’ becomes ‘I can’ that every teacher works to achieve with their students.
Professionals I Work With:
Schools / Businesses / Sports
Paediatric O.Ts
Educational Psychologists
SpLD / LSE's
Teachers
Speech and Language Therapists
Mental Health Professionals
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are developmental movements the key to brain and sensory development?
Without movement the brain and sensory system does not fully develop, leaving the brain and sensory system immature and leaves the child without the full resources to be able to learn.
Using developmental movements can help make the connections that link up all areas of the brain sufficiently. The inborn movement pattern every baby is born with starts in utero during pregnancy, is important during the natural birthing process and then the most important time is the first 12 months after birth when the greatest amount of neural development takes place.
The next important stage is during the Early Years are between 12 months and up to 4 - 5 years old. If a baby / toddler misses any of the developmental movements and stages during this important time, the connections and the linking up of the brain will be poor. This is one of the main causes of learning challenges and developmental delays seen in most classrooms today.
Movement is vital during the Early Years. ADHD can be a result of the lack of movement during the first 12 months after birth that makes the first links to the Executive functioning area of the brain. This can be improved at any age with the techniques I have to offer parents, children, adults and schools.
Retained reflexes can have a negative impact on our ability to be able to learn in education, in business, in sport and generally in life. It’s to do with how well developed and connected your brain and sensory system are that enables you to have the resources necessary to be able to learn and achieve well in all areas of your life, and with less effort. Some children, and adults, find ways to compensate for their difficulties, but as the pressure becomes greater as they move up the levels of education, or in their careers, the compensations no longer able to support them and this is when students, or adults, get diagnosed with Dyslexia or other learning challenged labels when they are doing GCSE’s, A Levels or in University, or have reached their workplace but cannot manage progressing further up the career ladder.
Can something be done to help develop the connections throughout the brain?
Yes, Absolutely. It does not matter how old you are, or what learning challenge you may have, the brain and sensory system can be improved and developed using developmental movements similar to those that every baby should learn to make at any age. Of course, the earlier this is achieved, the less valuable time is lost in education. Teachers say that 70% of their time in the classroom is spent with helping children who are struggling to keep up with others who learn with ease.The signs can be clearly noticed in many classrooms. The process of changing this is simple and requires no more than 10 – 15 minutes a day of specific movements. Usually the person cannot make these movements in an exact, co-ordinated and effortless way at the beginning, but as they practice them this changes and the connections start to link up areas of the brain and learning challenges and difficulties ease away, allowing them to achieve success in any area they want.
How long it will take?
This will depend on how many reflexes are retained. On average, around 6 – 12 months, sometimes a little longer with more severe learning / developmental challenges and then the results are for life. A level of change takes place immediately after making each movement. As the person learns to make the movements exact over a 3 - 4 week period of just 10 minutes practice a day, so the level of change improves too, and the learning challenges will ease away. I guarantee results if my instruction is followed.
Below is a short 2 minute video made by a parent, Andrea Thornton. You may recognise you have the same questions about issues your child may have, and that there is an alternative drug-free and completely natural way to improve neurological connections that are life changing. If you go to Amazon.co.uk there is a 30 minute award-winning film you can buy and download very cheaply with further information and understanding about the importance of primitive reflexes. It will answer many questions you probably have as a parent or school.
Peer reviewed evidence of the benefits of Rhythmic Movements toward learning outcomes in a classroom. Tessa Grigg Ph.D has done some research with a school. Please click on the link if you are interested: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/16565
What courses do you offer?
We offer the following courses, please click on the links below to be taken to the relevant pages.
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