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Every child has special needs

Working with children

We think of ourselves as teachers rather than therapists. Our specialist skills are in creating the conditions for your child to learn, primarily to move better by sensing themselves more clearly.
And since movement and perception underlie everything that we do, any improvements in these abilities will also support your child’s behavioural and cognitive development.
We teach by guiding your child’s attention through touch, movement and verbal cues to create new neural pathways. This is the biological basis for learning.
Where to begin?

Building on what they can already do

We will never be force your child to do anything that they can’t do. Instead, we introduce new movement possibilities playfully by creating variations of what they can already do.
Through working with them this way, they are never overwhelmed and their confidence and ability to better express themselves and act in the world grows.
Their engagement is essential so we construct the lessons around what they like doing, playing with a favourite toy for example, so they enjoy and look forward to visiting us.
Creating a safe environment

Working with your child not on them

Respecting a child’s emotional, psychological and physical needs and helping them to feel comfortable and secure is of primary importance in this learning process. 
At times we may challenge them in order to learn, but never to the point of stress. We believe that comfort and enjoyment support learning while stress inhibits it. 
As a result, we work not only with improving a child’s physical abilities, but also to support their emotional and psychological development.
Key principles

How does it work?

  • We use touch and movement to create new connections in the brain – this is like building new roads for information to flow between the brain and the body
  • We look to fill in missing elements of developmental movement and perception – we don’t look to cure or fix anything but simply help your child to learn what’s next for them
  • We work with the child’s motivation and intention  – this makes their learning immediately useful to them and supports new abilities to be used again and again in daily life
  • We understand a child as a holistic human being – whose movements, thoughts, feelings and sensations work together to create their actions and behaviour
  • We help the child’s brain to learn to do what it could not do spontaneously on its own (due to difficulties) – the brain’s fundamental role in learning is improved to bring order into disorder
  • We work from the principles of neural plasticity – the brain’s ability to change and learn allows for new abilities to occur and functional difficulties to be overcome or minimised
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