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= = __Action Based Learning Lab __  Dr. Paul Dennison (author of Brain Gym ©) believes that the brain sends information throughout the brain from the back to the front (focus), side to side (laterality), and up and down (centering). These processes are developed through early motor development. All of these stages are necessary for optimal brain development to facilitate the process of sending information throughout the brain from back to front, side to side and up and down. If any of the stages is skipped or minimized the child may experience difficulty later on when learning to process information or symbols.

Action Based Learning Lab © is set up to fill in the missing stages of development and /or practice needed parts necessary for learning success. The skills in the lab will benefit every child at whatever stage of development. The program relies on the brain and body’s technology to make the connections needed for optimal learning.

A child’s mental development is based in part on his/her early motor development. The brain begins to wire up its ability to process information by wiring up the body’s systems of balance, coordination, vestibular and motor movements. Dr. John Ratey says that “what makes us move is also what makes us think.” As the brain and body begin to work together to process motor sequences and patterns such as rolling over, crawling, walking and jumping, the brain creates the pathways used for processing sequences in reading and math. These are the three basic human motor movements: rolling, crawling/walking, and jumping. These directly correspond with the way that Information travels in the brain: side to side across the corpus callosum, back to front across the motor cortex and up and down from the bottom to the top of the brain. The brain uses its motor patterns as the framework for the other learning.