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Show Edu-Kinesthetics program presented A free presentation will be offered March 22 to help adults improve im-prove the learning abilities of their children and themselves. Susan Hockery Fields, Davis County coordinator of the Ed-K Network of Utah will sponsor this seminar at the Bountiful Branch Davis County Coun-ty Library, 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening. Rita Simmons will share her experiences ex-periences using Edu-Kinesthetics with resource class students and other Network members will help teach this approach to learning enrichment. en-richment. The public is invited. Edu-Kinesthetics means education educa-tion through movement. This process pro-cess was developed by Dr. Paul Dennison, learning specialist and educator, out of over 15 years' work in reading, vision, and covert speech remediation with dyslexic and learning disabled children and adults. Used for years in Dr. De-nnison's De-nnison's Valley Remedial Learning Learn-ing Centers in southern California, the method is now being taught and used throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Dr. Dennison has used current developmental discoveries and research re-search to show that people with learning disabilities are frequently not using both hemispheres of the brain fully. One side is in effect "switched off." "Our experience is that learning happens best through spontaneous growth of the individual. Within him the seeds of freedom, choice, and global learning are already well sown. The very baseline of choice-making choice-making is to operate with both cerebral hemispheres switched on so that true options exist. Educa- -I 1 x : j SUSAN HOCKERY FIELDS tional Kinesiology is a wonderful tool for supporting growth and reawakening innate potentials." From "Personalized Whole Brairu Integration" by Paul E. Dennison.Q Robert Eyestone, educational psychologist with Weber County Mental Health Department, has done research with over 400 students stu-dents in the Morgan School District. Dis-trict. He found less than 10 percent of children in resource and handicapped hand-icapped classes to be functioning bilaterally, using the whole brain, while over 80 percent of children in regular classes showed to be bilateral. bila-teral. Edu-Kinesthetics offers a way to integrate the brain, allowing both hemispheres to work together for easier "switched on" learning. For more information call Susan Fields, 295-0137. |