The NEURO DYNAMIX fine motor intervention programme’s wooden resources support a learner in acquiring advanced motor skills and to grasp abstract concepts with the assistance of concrete learning.

Wood is … than plastic and so it is easier to stimulate the learner’s proprioception and vestibular function.

Once a learner senses his body’s current location within his environment and the current location of the resources, the … of the resources makes it easier for the brain to interact with the concepts that the resources represent.

The concepts of gravity, laterality, crossing the midline, directionality, sequencing, perception, shape, number, colour underpin the two concepts we are working towards: writing and reading.

Learners can easily leap from speech and concrete play to silently manipulate abstract symbols within a few months.

It is vital that learners first need to understand that letter symbols represent speech, before they can start reading.

The Mind Moves Reading READINESS programme:

The NEURO DYNAMIX programme is aimed at identifying a learner’s current level of competence and areas in need of support and to strengthen these neuro pathways.

If new neuro pathways have been myelinated:

Successful gross motor development enables the learner to hold the head above the spine and have … in readiness to develop fine motor muscles (inside-out).

Fine motor skills are necessary for many aspects of self-care and for the development of emergent writing and reading skills.

Development of fine motor skills starts with mouth, then the hands and fingers, feet and toes until the eyes are neuro-physiologically ready to learn to read at the age of:

There is a correlation between speech issues and poor fine motor in the:

The BABKIN REFLEX is responsible for the involuntary movement of the hands, toes and feet when a baby feeds. If the BABKIN REFLEX did not disappear, the learner would simultaneously move their hands and mouth when they draw, cut or fasten a button.

If we want to improve a learner’s writing and reading they just need to read and write more.

If a learner struggles with writing and reading, it is most probably because they did not know the language of learning sufficiently well or/and their fine motor muscles were not ready for the complex and abstract tasks of writing and reading.