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Re: Brain Gym --where is the REAL research?
Posted by OTDrew on 12/08/06
On 9/24/06, mary mcbride wrote:
> I use brain gym every day with students and the difference
> in attitude and behavior convinces me that BG is
> profound....I get so tired of the old paradigm of SCIENTIFIC
> evidence .....just notice the difference in yourself....
I am an occupational therapist who has used "Brain Gym" as a part of my treatment
tools. My response is that there are so many forms of beneficial movement
activities that it this topic is worthy of quality research. If there is quality research,
then adminstrators and those at the state level will be more interested in
implementing movement activities as a part of daily instruction. If you have ever
attended a "Brain Gym" class, you will notice that Edu-K is very protective of their
copyright. As a therapist, I know that many of the activities that compose brain
gym have been around for a while before "Brain Gym". Paul Dennison did a great
job of compiling, and copyrighting a set of exercises (a third of which are straight
out of yoga). As a therapist, I have collected data to support that movmement MAY
have an inpact on vision skills. However, since our data set did not include a
control set, it would be unethical and unprofessional to state that movement
activities improve saccadic eye movement. If "Brain Gym" works for you and your
class, GREAT! But, if we want to see the benefits of exercise throughout the
educational setting, we need to adhere to the requirements of NCLB and used
researched based methods.
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