Brain Gym 101 offers motor development teaching skills
A motor development program for teachers, parents, athletes, health care and business professionals and others will be offered in June through Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Brain Gym® 101, a program that uses simple movements to improve the learning abilities of adults and children, will be held on the UW-Stevens Point campus from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday, June 18-21, at a cost of $389 including books and materials. University credit is also available for this class at an additional cost.
Developed by Paul Dennison, an expert in child motor development, the program is based on 80 years of research by educational therapists, developmental optometrists and specialists. Brain Gym consists of simple movements that children do naturally during their first three years of life to accomplish important developmental steps for coordination of eyes, ears, hands and the whole body. Brain Gym movements have been shown clinical to prepare children with the physical skills they need in order to learn to read, write and otherwise function effectively in the classroom.
Pamela Luedtke, associate lecturer in dance at UW-Stevens Point and a licensed Brain Gym instructor, will lead the course, focusing on kinesiology balances, 26 Brain Gym movements, and Dennison Laterality Repatterning, Additional objectives of the class are comprehension of the "dynamic brain" and its relationship to the "three dimensions" along with goal setting.
For information or registration by June 11, contact UW-Stevens Point Continuing Education Customer Service at 715-346-3838 or 800-898-9472 or go to www.uwsp.edu/conted/artculture.
UW-Stevens Point Continuing Education provides credit classes, degree completion programs, conference planning, contract training and an array or personal and professional development programs for business and industry, youth, working adults and special audiences.
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