Educational Kinesiology Edu-K
by Dr Paul Dennison PhD (USA)
Educational Kinesiology (Edu-K)- Paul Dennison PhD
Educational Kinesiology Foundation
1575 Spinnaker Drive Suite 204B, VENTURA CA 93001
POSTAL:
Box 3396
VENTURA
CALIFORNIA 93006-3396 USA
Ph: +1 (800)356-2109 or (805)658-7942
fax: +1 (805) 650 0524
e-mail:
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Website: http://www.braingym.org
Dr Paul Dennison was a School Teacher who suffered severely from Dyslexia.
By researching and testing every available therapy he could find he was able to overcome most of his dyslexic problems. Today Dr Dennison travells the world teaching his program to literally thousands of students. Dr Dennison developed his program in the early 1980's.
Phillip Crockford (USA)and Trevor Savage ND (AUST) were instrumental in introducing E-K to Australia and New Zealand. Phillip Crockford also introduced it into South America , North America and Europe. Dr Dennison now heads a worldwide Foundation.
EDUCATIONAL KINESIOLOGY (Edu-K) was created by Paul Dennison (Ph.D in Special Education) in the early seventies. He discovered a brilliant Integration Process that enhances coordination between the left and right hemisphere of the brain. As a result, learning, coordination, vision and behaviour can improve enormously. He also composed a set of Brain GymŪ exercises that can be used to specifically switch on the brain for certain activities. The results were so exciting that in 1991 the US Learning Foundation (branch of White House) has nominated Edu-K as one of the two most successful innovative Learning Programmes.
Brain GymŪ is a program of physical activities that enhance learning ability.
The activities are easy and enjoyable, and they bring about rapid and often dramatic improvements in concentration, memory, reading, writing, organizing, listening, physical coordination, and more.
Brain GymŪ develops the brain's neural pathways the way nature does: through movement.
Brain GymŪ grew out of research started in 1969 by Dr Paul Dennison PhD, who was looking for ways to help children and adults who had been identified as "learning disabled". His research led him to the study of kinesiology, the science of body movement and its relationship to brain function.
At the time, it was already well established that coordinated physical movement is necessary to brain development. Babies and young children naturally perform what experts in early childhood education call developmental movements. These movements develop the neural connections in the brain, which are essential to learning.
Dr Dennison discovered ways to adapt and sequence these movements so they could be effective for older children and adults. The result is a system of targeted activities that enhance performance in all areas intellectual, creative, athletic, and interpersonal.
Endorsed by the National Learning Foundation
Brain GymŪ has been taught worldwide in thousands of public and private schools. It has been shown to be effective in published studies, and it is being incorporated into a growing number of corporate, institutional, and athletic training programs.
Since 1990, Brain GymŪ has been selected annually by the National Learning Foundation, the private-sector branch of the White House Task Force on Learning, as one of today's leading technologies for education.