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Brain Research
Supports Rock2Read™
Spatial awareness requires integrating the information
from the different senses into the three-dimensional
model of the world provided by the vestibular system.
Activities which refine the vestibular system and
develop sensory integration can refine all aspects of
brain processing.
Generation FIT is the pioneer in developing integrated programs
that leverage this key information.
We’ve even coined a term for our revolutionary
method:
ExerLearningTM.
We’ve developed a new way to allow kids (and
their teachers and families) to become more fit while
simultaneously increasing academic success… and making
it fun!
We do it by combining the multiple benefits of exercise,
fitness factors, music and the fun of interactive video
games into a technology-delivered curriculum for the
classroom.
Balance and
Learning
In
order to understand why balance stimulation activities
have a place in PE, in the home and
in the regular
classroom, we must understand the central role
played by the sense of balance, or the brain’s
vestibular system. The vestibular organs work together
and define motion on each of the three dimensions of
space. When the head moves, hair cells detect the motion
of the fluids inside each
canal. The brain uses this information to calculate
changes in inertia, in much the same way that the
inertial navigation system on an airliner senses changes
in position and velocity. All the other major brain
systems—motor, tactile, auditory, and visual—also
develop, but they develop in relation to the vestibular
system, or sense of balance. Because the vestibular
system plays such a key role in the foundations of
perception, balance practice can alleviate many,
seemingly unrelated problems in brain function [like
reading and cognitive tasks].
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