| Preliminary Program subject to change |
| Brain Gym - Move Your Body, Connect Your Brain |
| Structure | Council of Physical Education for Children |
| Description | Brain Gym is a series of movements and activities that integrate and enhance brain/body function. Primitive infantile reflexes will be discussed and the relationship movement plays in child development, learning and behavior.
Participants will receive an overview of Educational Kinesiology, learn 5 of the 26 Brain Gym activities, explore the physiology of learning and identify the role movement and play serve in child development.
Eye integration (binocular vision) and the relationship of catching/tracking an object and tracking words on a page will also be discussed. |
| Speaker: | Debi Brocklehurst, Brain Gym L:earning & Performance Center/Deland Middle School, Deland, FL
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