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Visual Processing Skills: Building Blocks for Learning and Development Visual processing encompasses a sophisticated set of cognitive abilities that allow children to make sense of the visual world around them. These skills work together as an integrated system, enabling everything from reading and writing to navigating playground equipment and solving math problems. Understanding these skills helps educators, clinicians, and parents recognize both strengths and areas where c

A child's physical coordination and movement skills are inherently connected to their developing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral abilities. This is especially clear during the early years of development when children discover the world through sensory experiences, motor actions, exploration, and play. In this article, you will find 12 activities to support your young children's motor, cognitive, and language skills. Developmental Milestones Achieving motor milestones lik

Physical activity, neuroplasticity, and brain growth are interconnected elements in childhood development. Regular physical activity stimulates neural growth and strengthens connections between brain regions, enhancing cognitive function, learning ability, and emotional regulation. Our students need to physically move 2-5 minutes every 45 minutes in class to prime the brain for learning. Our next book about movement, music, and cognition will include over 50 activities for yo

Crawling is a foundational developmental milestone that does far more than help babies move around. Research shows that when infants crawl, they develop crucial cross-lateral movements where opposite sides of the body must coordinate - right arm with left leg and vice versa. This cross-patterning helps establish important neural connections between the brain's hemispheres. Beyond physical coordination, crawling is vital in developing depth perception and spatial awareness. As

When we think of music, often what comes to mind, is a song. We may think of Broadway musicals, Bach, or Taylor Swift. In our minds, songs may play throughout the day. Music is a universal language central to civilization for thousands of years. Before we had language, we used musical tones and sounds to communicate. The tone of a grunt signaled a message from our prehistoric ancestors, while the beat of a drum brought village people together in unity far and wide. What w

Over the past 20 years, we have developed engaging cognitive-motor & executive function activities to help clinicians and educators who work with neurodiverse children to stimulate self-regulation, self-control, response inhibition, attention, and memory. Current studies on the relationship between executive function and emergent academic skills in preschoolers, kindergartners, and older children have shown that executive function significantly relates to both mathematics and

While working with parents, teachers, and districts during this unique time, we asked some of our esteemed colleagues, what Apps and Resources you all are using to facilitate online, hybrid, and at-home learning. Here are a few we gathered. Feel free to add more on our FB Page . We are hearing from many families and educators about the academic slide students are experiencing. We are reflecting on how to bridge the gap between learning, reading, math, cognition, and joy! Sha

We have a NEW Executive Function in the Classroom, Home & Clinic PreK-6th-grade resource page you can share with your schools. Our NEW 6-Hour MasterClass ENGAGE to bring cognitive skills coaching and cognitive-physical activities to your school, home, and clinic Our FREE Brain Primers Cards from Moving Minds Publishing to get you started helping students alert their Attention Engines with motor-movement 3-5 minutes at a time anywhere! Our FREE “I DID IT” Executive Function M