Elbert Phelan

Parenting Guidebook Elbert Phelan

You can work with the children on the advancement and proper development of essential skills with the tools provided here. These effective tools are recommended even when facing a background of difficulties, impairments, disorders, and various syndromes.

In the first part of the book, you will find an explanation of the body's systems and ways to identify the difficulties children experience with these systems. The explanation is written in simple and easy-to-read language and summarizes the main points in the field of inter-sensory integration.

The second part of the book will give you 20 enjoyable and easy to implement lessons in movement. The exercises are suitable for individual or group work with young children in every environment: in the home, the clinic, the classroom, the kindergarten, in the yard, and in the playground.

This manual is an exceptionally informative and accessible guide to understanding the importance of motion in early childhood development. In her opening chapter, the author states, 'The experiences the child undergoes teach him to use his mind to organize information; he learns from experience, and from feeling experienced by his body during a particular action. Learning, thought, creativity and intelligence originate in brain activity, but are expressed by the body as a whole... The child's development occurs entirely through motion. Through motion, he develops the perception of his body - his brain comprehends the image of his body...'