Education
Learn to Move
Learn to Move (Gauteng) - A motor-sensory programme to develop language and learning in the child. Following the natural course of development through to higher cortical skills to stimulate learning and organisation. Now packaged and adapted for teachers in Africa as: Tiggs Train in the country town of Henley on klip, just south of Alberton or in your own school with a group more than ten. Hungarian Basic Development in Africa. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit our website
Why use movement to help a child learn?
A child learns optimally by mentally stimulating tasks, sensory rich activities and physically active exercises. In the first two years of life, a child's development is measured mainly by the mastering of motor milestones. The progression from 2 to 5 years is characterized by perceptual awareness and learning and the ability to communicate, together with the acquisition of co-ordination and balance. By age 5 to 8 years movements develop into complex motor abilities and academically the child must make the bridge from concrete concepts to abstract concepts found in reading and writing.
Sensory motor patterns are necessary for the acquisition of language. In 1987, in Budapest, Hungary, Dr Éva Marton began to note a connection between the acquisition of language and the sensory motor development of the child. Research into these areas revealed a pattern of incomplete infant movement development associated with a delay in reading and writing.
