Sally Goddard Blythe is Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology. She researches the relationship between physical development and learning. Her remedial programmes help transform children’s learning through movement. Her widely translated books include The Well Balanced Child, The Genius of Play, Raising Happy Healthy Children and Movement: Your Child’s First Language from Hawthorn Press, and Attention Balance and Coordination, The ABC of Learning Success.
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Introduction: Why physical development matters and its relationship to school readiness and learning success. 1. Primitive reflexes – their influence on life and learning 2. From primitive reflex to postural control 3. Brain development: Establishing a hierarchy 4. The senses: Interreceptor and exteroceptor systems 5.Examples of reflex testing. 6. What can be done? Levels of intervention from individualized programmes to how parents can help; awareness in schools; signs and symptoms of listening problems; music as a primary teacher; visual processing; simple changes in the classroom; nature and nurture; use of electronic media. 7. History of the INPP method and selected papers by Lawrence Beuret MD and Sally Goddard Blythe Appendix 1: Case Studies Appendix 2: A short history of reflexes and the INPP method References and Glossary