Neural pathways are routes created in the brain for information, thoughts, and responses to stimuli. However, thinking and talking are formed way later than physical movement. Babies can’t speak, but they certainly can learn to move, grasping and crawling long before they start to talk. The neural channels we create for movement activities are used later for thoughts and cognitive processes. 

Whether or not we are as adept at balancing as The Cat in the Hat, we could all do with better balance. Good balance makes it easier to move and helps prevent injury…It is interesting to note that in China, the average number of falls among the elderly is significantly lower than in Western countries.

We cannot expect parents to be with their children every waking hour. There are always important chores, such as cooking or laundry, and many parents have to juggle all this with work. Modern life is very demanding. Children are starting nursery without…….

When someone has poor vision, an optician help corrects their focusing ability so they can compensate for this particular deficiency.…..When spelling, you need to pay particular attention to the letter configuration - especially when the word being spelt is not phonetically obvious and you need to memorize the order of letters. All of these skills require correct eye-tracking.

Balance, Auditory Vision Exercises (Bal-A-Vis-X) is a programme from America developed by founder Bill Hubert. The workshops are now available in the UK

There is nothing more annoying than when you read badly punctuated sentences. We should all have a pen handy when we see lousy punctuation.

Motor planning is the ability of the body to create movement so we can perform a task. When playing with mobiles, babies will thrash their arms and legs on seeing the suspending toy. They aim for the toy but do not grab it.

Children all learn ball skills at some point, and one may expect that they have been able to learn how to catch a ball by ten years of age. But this is not the case for some children with possible symptoms of neuro divergence.

Parents notice all sorts of things about their children, and one thing that crops up time and time again is that they are worried about their child’s awkwardness and problems with co-ordination.

Do you ever have that itch to jump to the next most fascinating book and can't wait to finish the current book, regardless of how good it is?

Can you do the  ‘The Floss dance?’