I just received the Integrating Mind and Body Through Movement book. Looking through it, I have a few questions about its use. Are you to do the exercises in Chapter 1 until those are down and then move on to the next chapter, or do you do many exercises from many chapters daily?
How long did it take before you saw results?
Thanks for any responses.
Hi
I used this book with my son. Some exercises we did for one week others we did for 2 months. We did them until his movements were smooth and he could do them fairly easily.
He had a terrible time with the exercises that involved creeping hands and feet down.
The whole set of exercises took 6 months.
My neurotypical 5 year old does these with ease. It really helped me to see for myself the neurological difficulties my son had.
I saw improvements in several areas. He gained greater coordination. Was the best jump roper in his class and could finally hoola hoop. He went from being one of the worst to one of the best on his football team.
He is definitely more confident and I saw gains in other areas as well.
It is hard to say which gains were from this and which were from standard vision therapy.
His math ability has improved dramatically in the last year. He is also much more independent and more of a self starter with homework etc.
He also just seems quicker on the uptake. He understands things after the first explanation.
He is in a regular class without accomodations. He still has some challenges but it is a long way from where he was.
My understanding is that you would do the first set of exercises to mastery before proceeding to the second set of exercises, etc.
I have a student who started the exercises a couple of weeks ago, but she had difficulty with the very first set and had not progressed beyond them last time we met.
I too would be very interested in hearing others’ experiences. They look like very good exercises, but I am not sure what to expect in terms of improvement. My student has severe sensory integration problems that seem to interfere with her ability to track along a line when reading. (She already had vision therapy for two years, with little improvement the second year.)
Nancy