Past Conference
Primitive Reflexes - Foundations for Learning Workshop
Presented by Kathy Johnson, MS Ed
Monday, June 27, 2016
Holiday Inn Saratoga Springs
232 Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Primitive Reflexes - Foundations for Learning Workshop
Presented by Kathy Johnson, MS Ed
Monday, June 27, 2016
Holiday Inn Saratoga Springs
232 Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
About the Speaker
Kathy Johnson, MS Ed, started on this journey to help one of her own children. She received training in order to bring these therapies to others which included Brain Gym® 101, Primitive Reflex Training and Rhythmic Movement Training, Therapeutic Listening, Samonas Listening, PACE, and Phono-Graphix. In 2000, Kathy started The Hunter School for struggling students, in which she taught third through eighth graders required academics while remediating their struggles through therapy during the school hours. In 2002, she started an educational consulting business to screen and remediate students one at a time. Since then she has also given lectures and workshops to individuals and schools, been a guest on internet talk radio shows, and wrote the Pyramid of Potential DVD/workbook Series for therapists and families. In 2010, she published The Roadmap From Learning Disabilities to Success; in 2012 she completed Growing Brains Everyday, a curriculum for K-2. Since 2009, Mrs. Johnson has given professional development conferences on Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia throughout the country for CMI/MEDS-PDN/PESI as well as customized in-services for schools and clinics.
Mrs. Johnson earned her Master’s degree in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology from the State University of New York at Albany where she instructed faculty and staff in the use of computers, was an adjunct professor at Schenectady County Community College, and taught at The Adirondack School of Northeastern New York.
About the Conference
Parents and educators are frustrated today with the additional mandates required, yet there are an increasing number of children who need extra help. Despite all of the efforts to improve education, reading, writing, and math scores do not increase. This workshop provides all of the information needed to help educators, professionals and parents to help the students improve brain functioning through integration of the primitive reflexes. This course includes live demonstration and floor practice.
Objectives
Kathy Johnson, MS Ed, started on this journey to help one of her own children. She received training in order to bring these therapies to others which included Brain Gym® 101, Primitive Reflex Training and Rhythmic Movement Training, Therapeutic Listening, Samonas Listening, PACE, and Phono-Graphix. In 2000, Kathy started The Hunter School for struggling students, in which she taught third through eighth graders required academics while remediating their struggles through therapy during the school hours. In 2002, she started an educational consulting business to screen and remediate students one at a time. Since then she has also given lectures and workshops to individuals and schools, been a guest on internet talk radio shows, and wrote the Pyramid of Potential DVD/workbook Series for therapists and families. In 2010, she published The Roadmap From Learning Disabilities to Success; in 2012 she completed Growing Brains Everyday, a curriculum for K-2. Since 2009, Mrs. Johnson has given professional development conferences on Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia throughout the country for CMI/MEDS-PDN/PESI as well as customized in-services for schools and clinics.
Mrs. Johnson earned her Master’s degree in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology from the State University of New York at Albany where she instructed faculty and staff in the use of computers, was an adjunct professor at Schenectady County Community College, and taught at The Adirondack School of Northeastern New York.
About the Conference
Parents and educators are frustrated today with the additional mandates required, yet there are an increasing number of children who need extra help. Despite all of the efforts to improve education, reading, writing, and math scores do not increase. This workshop provides all of the information needed to help educators, professionals and parents to help the students improve brain functioning through integration of the primitive reflexes. This course includes live demonstration and floor practice.
Objectives
- Identify several foundational steps for the development of the brain
- Identify 6 primitive reflexes and how they contribute to learning
- Demonstrate the infant reflex and identify the normal age at which it is integrated
- Test for each of the 6 reflexes, and give a rating for the severity of the retention of the reflex
- Demonstrate the integration exercise, including modifications, for each reflex
- List the behavioral and physical symptoms associated with each reflex
- Demonstrate additional physical exercises that complement each reflex
- Demonstrate the integration exercise in a classroom situation versus a clinical or home setting
- Discuss why the reflexes may still be present and what circumstances integration exercises may not create changes
- Discuss who can teach these exercises, who can benefit from them, and how they are optimally completed
- Discuss what reflex integration can and cannot accomplish, and what will be required beyond reflex integration for student success
The Full Brochure of this Conference is available to download below.
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