Enhance Fine Motor Activity

Improve Hand Writing and Other Hand Functions Using these Activities

Children with Challenges website offers many engaging fine motor activities designed to help people control hand function. This wonderful informational website points out the importance of posture, sensory processing, trunk and shoulder stability, and visual motor and visual perceptual skills involved with handwriting. Once again, the body is central to improving academic performance skills.

4th of July Movement Routine

Feel physical fireworks following the actions

Rather than sitting and listening to the 1812 Overture performed to fireworks, why not create your own sparkle, mimicking my complex movement routine and echoing the lyrics. Dress in red, white and blue to experience total release. Can you do it? Engage your pre-frontal cortex, motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, visual, auditory, vestibular and kinesthetic body brain systems. This is the same body brain network that involves academic performance skills. Ka boom! What a blast!

Turn to FUN for Childhood Development

FUNsical Fitness Keeps the Body Brain Movin’ n Improvin’

Scott Liebler, originator of Silly-cise and Adventurobics has developed a progressive series of super fun movement activities for children ages 2 to 5. FUNsical activities playfully help children mature their kinesthetic, visual and auditory systems through rhythm, dance, dramatic role-play, vocalization and humor. Children love it!

http://www.funsicalfitness.com/ describes Scott’s imaginative program that has proven effective, developing language comprehension and speaking skills. Strength, balance, gross motor and rhythmic skills are built to foster academic, as well as social-emotional success.

Scott Liebler’s activities give parents, educators, coaches, therapists and medical professionals an effective means to help young children maximize their learning potential through play -- nothing works better!

Balancing is the Learning Breakthrough

Balance and Vestibular System Development is Key

Dr. Frank Belgau developed The Learning Breakthrough Program. At the University of Houston, he directed the Perceptual Motor and Visual Perception Laboratory. In particular, he focused on the effect of balance and the vestibular system and developed the Belgau Balance Board. Over decades, he established the use of the balancing activities made dramatic improvement in children’s reading and academic performance skills. Read about the astounding improvement at http://www.balametrics.com/results.htm, better yet, try Bala-Metrics and experience the improvements in intelligence, reading, and behavior yourself.

http://www.balametrics.com/theory.htm the Theory Behind The Learning Breakthrough

http://www.balametrics.com/explain.htm Marvelous series of articles relating balance to ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Handwriting, CAPD, Reading, and Academics. Topics include Multi-Sensory Integration, Spatial Awareness, Integration of Brain Hemispheres, Brain Timing/Reaction Time, Sequencing, Binocular Teaming, and Proprioception.