Brain Gym 101 offers motor development teaching skills
A beneficial program for teachers, parents, athletes, health care and business professionals and others will be offered in January 2012 through Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Brain Gym® 101 teaches a program that uses simple movements to improve the learning abilities of adults and children. The course will be offered at UW-Stevens Point from 5-9 p.m. on the Friday evenings of January 6 and 13, 2012, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Saturdays of January 14 and 21, 2012. The cost is $389, which includes a textbook. It may be taken for two or three UW-Stevens Point undergraduate credits at an additional cost.
Pamela Luedtke, an associate lecturer in the Department of Theatre & Dance and a licensed Brain Gym instructor, will lead the course, focusing on kinesiology balances, 26 Brain Gym movements and the Dennison Laterality Repatterning process. Additional objectives of the class are comprehension of the dynamic brain and its relationship to the three dimensions along with goal setting.
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 clinically to prepare children with the physical skills they need in order to learn to read, write and otherwise function effectively in the classroom.
For information or registration, contact UW-Stevens Point Continuing Education Customer Service at 715-346-3838 or 800-898-9472 or go to www.uwsp.edu/conted/aco. Visa, MasterCard and American Express are accepted.
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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