Move to Learn Therapy News

Expand Your Child’s Movement Vocabulary! Why is it important to support your child with a wide variety of ‘movement vocabulary’?

Has it ever occurred to you that your child with special challenges also needs a set of movement ‘ingredients’ or ‘vocabulary’ to allow them to build bigger and more purposeful movements. And just like learning to read and write, there are many ways to put these ‘movement vocabularies’ together to achieve functional movements and hence, independence.

Believe in Your Child! Our beliefs can support (or impede) our children’s progress.

With well intended efforts, and often without being aware it, parents could inadvertently slow down their child’s progress. When you support a safe and stimulating learning environment for your child, you are providing your child with the opportunity to figure out for themselves what they want, and experience how it feels to achieve what they want.

Awareness In Action! How can you support your child to awaken the ‘observer’ within?

When your child is ‘Awaring’, it’s as if your child has an ‘inner observer’ shining a light, revealing something your child has not felt or realized before. Awareness on this internal sensory level elevates your child’s brain to a place of discovery and choice rather than being reactive or on automatic pilot.

What’s love got to do with it? How creating a Loving and Safe Learning Environment can support your child’s development.
Like a ‘new kid in town’ your child is learning with your guidance. Your reactions and responses reflect and project meaning onto the consequences of your child’s actions…

Creative Imagination! How can Imagination and Dreams support you to support your child’s development?

Imagination ‘turns the lights on’ throughout your child’s brain, creating billions of new connections. When you support your child to form new connections through imagination and dreams, you are supporting your child’s ability to move beyond their current limitations and create new possibilities…

Experience Subtlety! How ‘subtlety’ can support your child’s development.

Subtlety is the ability to recognize and make very fine distinctions and is often underestimated in this world of quick, quick, quick. Our ability to perceive fine differences generates information which is useful for organizing new, more refined action and for overcoming our limitations…

Slow down to speed up! How can ‘slowing down’ actually speed up the progress of your child’s development in the long run.

Moving Attentively! How ‘movement with attention’ supports you to be more sensitive to your child’s feelings, which in turn supports them to learn at an elevated rate and to enjoy the process at the same time.

Flexible Goals! How can flexible goals support you to support your child’s progress?