About the Program:
Our job at Learn and Play Preschool is to provide a safe, fun and stimulating atmosphere where your child can 'learn and play' by interacting with their surroundings, friends, teachers and the provided learning environment. By providing a developmentally appropriate curriculum for cognitive, emotional and physical growth (through a structured program) your child will be able to expand their awareness of both themselves and the world around them.
Ready Bodies, Learning Minds (RBLM) - Is a comprehensive approach to understanding how sensory integration and motor control drives learning, and therefore the performance, of our children.
RBLM provides children with a strong foundation of the basic knowledge and use of their bodies. As they grow and develop, certain skills will need to become automatic. If their reflexive system is developed, then as babies, crawling and walking will become automatic. If their vestibular system is developed, then equilibrium while sitting in a chair becomes automatic. If their proprioceptive and tactile systems are developed, then the ability to control the movements of their hand and a pencil becomes automatic. If their visual and auditory systems are developed, the information they see and hear can be used automatically to successfully develop higher level skills.
If for some reason a reflexive pattern lingers beyond the accepted time, it begins to interfere with a child's ability to develop an appropriate foundation for stability and mobility. While a child will continue to learn, they will unfortunately build their knowledge of movement on a faulty and adaptive pattern of stability. As a child matures and learns more complex skills, this faulty and adaptive pattern may not provide him/her with the foundation he/she needs to be successful.
At Learn and Play Preschool, we are able to recognize and help a child who has not mastered or has difficulty performing certain movements or processing certain stimuli. For example: a child dislikes or is uncomfortable with swinging, does not like being upside down, does not engage their core to pull up their legs, does not use both feet to forcefully jump forward/up, does not use alternating feet to descend stairs, does not hyper-extend the arms and bear weight without bending the elbow(s) or turning the neck, hangs on to objects for balance, (*vestibular input effects equilibrium), can run but stumbles or falls when they start to pick up speed, or has difficulty holding eye contact (on a fixed object) when they are in motion.
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