The purpose of the NEURO DYNAMIX Matching and Sorting Board is to develop the necessary skills to sort through sensations, impressions, objects and data to organise and regulate the learning environment and provide a sense of control.

In the NEURO DYNAMIX programme, sorting is a pre-writing and pre-reading skill as it develops the learner’s ability to reason on … in readiness for mastering the abstract letter symbols of language.

Suggested Mind Moves activities before the NEURO DYNAMIX Matching and Sorting Board, are the Mind Moves Mouse Pad and the:

Use the tweezers while sorting as often as possible develops thumb-finger opposition in readiness for:

A learner with a directionality problem has difficulty dealing with directions of objects in relation to self, such as “to my right,” “to my left,” “above me,” “below me,” etc.

If a learner confuses letters like b and d, numbers like 17 and 71, or write backwards, from right to left, the letters appearing like ordinary writing seen in a mirror, he might:

NEURO DYNAMIX Matching and Sorting Board develops skills like visual perception, fine motor control, analysis and syntheses, pre-writing and –reading skills.

A learner who has developed good comparing, matching, sorting and grouping skills can understand:

Learners who can compare, match and sort, transition … from 3D concrete learning to 2D representational / symbolic learning (writing, reading, mathematics).