Study Proves Movement is Key to Overcoming Learning Disabilities

Some students have the opportunity to play a fifth of their dreams if they are in school and their grades are increased accordingly. The students were part of a controlled study on the benefits of therapy for brain Swedish Movement training rhythm by playing students in the class, instead of reading. The results are impressive: The students gained an average of 31 words per minute in their reading speed, while the control group gained only 12 words per minute. With a vision by the program at all public schools, sponsors sought to fund a larger study.

Dyslexia is the leading cause of reading failure and school drop-outs in the United States, and eighty percent of children with learning difficulties have dyslexia. A 2005 study found that ninety percent of sixth graders to the English school is left. By implementing a program of APS in the early elementary grades, schools increase the opportunity for significant reduction in the number of school dropouts and have the academic skills of their graduates.

RMT has been successful in Europe for over 25 years, but it has in the United States has set up four years ago. Developed by a Swedish psychiatrist Harald Blomberg, RMT is based on movements, the children develop their first year of life. Each is equipped with primitive (infantile) reflexes, born to act as a model for the development of the brain. are primitive reflexes, which causes babies raise their heads roll, get on the crib, on hands and knees, then on foot. If the primitive reflexes remain about the age of three, behavioral problems and learning disabilities like dyslexia actively occurring ADHD, impulsivity, opposition / provocation, lack of coordination and other problems.

To the untrained eye, the activities in the classroom like a cross between a circus and chaos. Students spin plates, pick up marbles with your toes, bounce balls out of her back, and the balance on boards swings during the meetings. The students were then required to play specific, to evaluate the gaps in development, leading to learning difficulties filling.

“I noticed big changes in Sam, surprised Melissa Lytle, a professor of special education, which organize study RMT was. Sam, the first student to identify the program that the exercises helped their moods. He began to wonder whether he Lytle could exercise their own initiative when it began to frustrate. Sam other teachers noticed a change in its attitude towards the school, an increase in attendance and a general happy Sat reported. At the beginning of the school year, Sam was not motivated read outside of school. Towards the end of November, Sam began, the books of the library classroom Lytle test among four or five once. “Sam has been away from a reading rate of 70 words per minute to 94 words per minute,” boasts Lytle.

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