Body Laterality and Learning

See what side of your body and brain is in control

Prodigy.net offers a most comprehensive series of articles helping us understand laterality, and crossed or mixed dominance. Find out what eye, ear, hand, foot is dominant within your body. Understand ways to correct faulty dominance when it results in learning problems.

Insist on daily physical education to assure your child builds a strong sense of laterality which leads to midline mastery of the hands and eyes needed for effortless reading and writing. Once again movement prevails as the leading way to achieve academic success!

Brain Gym ® Exercises

Simple PACE exercises prime the body and brain

A short article by Kenneth Beare writing for About.com describes four Brain Gym PACE exercises designed to help students become Positive, Active, Clear and Energetic. Other interesting body brain-enhancing articles are linked to this article. One needs to keep an eye on the research supporting these activities.