Helen Summers Optometrist
  BRAIN GYM WORKSHOPS  
 
Behavioural Optometry
FAQ
 

Helen Summers has presented workshops for Teachers, Carers, Nurses and Parents for the past 20 years.

Recent presentations include:

  • Vision 2020, World Health Organisation Forum Durban, S Africa March 2007.
  • Key note speaker for International Brain Gym Conference Brisbane 2006.
  • National Kinesiology Conference 2005
Click the following link to find out about Brain Gym and Educational Kinesology
   
 
WHAT IS BRAIN GYM?

Books and Music

The Mozart Effect – Don Campbell, 1997

"Campbell reveals how exposure to sound, music and other forms of vibration, beginning in utero, can have lifelong on health, learning and behaviour."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   The Learning Child Workshop includes:
  • Explaining the physiology and the practical use of Brain Gym.
  • Basic physiology of the brain
  • The effect of retention of primitive reflexes on learning.
  • The development of Memory and Learning
  • Milestones for Transition Students and the Midline.
  • Encouraging the child's thinking and learning skills with perceptual games and sensory integration.
  • Introduction to dominance profiles, tactile and kinesthetic learners .
  • Developing sensory and perceptual motor programs.

 

A Full range of "The Mozart Effect" CDs are available at our practice.
A range of books and CDs explaining Brain Gym, the development of children, Exercises for children with sensory dysfunction, ADHD, developmental delay and learning difficulties are also available. Our staff will be happy to answer any questions you may have about educational Kinesology.