The Learning Connections School Program
The Learning Connections Approach
Learning Connections believes that the majority of children with learning difficulties, attention disorders and
behavior problems share common underlying factors, that is, neuro-developmental delay. This results in developmental immaturities,
which puts these children at high risk for learning difficulties, attention and behavior problems.
The Learning Connections'
approach is based on a neurological view of development that has been influenced by the work of a range of researchers and practitioners.
The Learning Connections program is essentially a sensory motor maturation program in which children replicate the early movement experiences
that are required to establish good building blocks, or "wiring", of the brain that is essential for efficient learning.
The Learning Connections School Program
This explicit and structured school classroom program contains sequential movement activities to enhance motor sensory integration
and inhibition of persistent primary reflexes to increase “at risk” children’s opportunity for academic achievement.
The Learning Connections School Program provides activities that promote developmental maturity.
Children can then develop the "brain wiring" required for successful learning, attention and appropriate behavior. Our research shows that
activities that inhibit persistent primary reflexes improve academic outcomes in all children, not just those identified as having specific
learning difficulties. Children of average and above average ability make the same percentage gains in reading, spelling and comprehension
as those at the lower end of the class.
This can happen because many children enter school, or are already in school with behaviors that
suggest they have immaturities in some aspect of their development. These immaturities may not be causing obvious problems with learning or
behavior but can be interfering with the child reaching their full potential.
Through the movement activities in the Learning Connections
School Program the brain is helped to sort out incoming information and to adapt or change in response to the demands of the child's learning environment.
Learning happens in the brain. The brain can be regarded as a switchboard which has innumerable connections.
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