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What is Infant Developmental Movement Education

Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME)

School for Body-Mind Centering

Lenore Grubinger will be offering training at BABYFIT in Brattislava, Slovakia (Only 45 minutes by bus from Vienna) in August 2009. For more information visit the following link: http://www.babyfit.sk/

"This program is a highly sophisticated and subtle approach to the observation and facilitation of normal movement patterns in infants. The approach incorporates the child’s curiosity, interest and individuality into the relationship with the educator. It is child centered and relationship centered, and child oriented rather than task oriented.

It trains people to recognize early movement patterns and to interact effectively with infants in gentle, enticing ways that will have a positive effect on their growth and development. The goal in movement education with infants is to help set a foundation that supports pathways of ease, strength, agility and adaptability and to help avoid restrictive patterns of movement that inhibit the development of the full potential of the child.

The approach is gentle, non-intrusive, and enticing rather than demanding. It is direct and highly specific to the individual child. It It does not force or impose, but focuses, engages, interacts, entices and seeks to engage the child’s inherent curiosity and interest. It always looks at the whole child and fully embraces each child and their parents and family. It includes and educates the family in the interactive process."

IDME training teaches students to....
• Observe how normal movement develops in infancy.
• Identify and analyze normal movement patterns.
• Facilitate normal movement development in a child.
• Facilitate basic perception in relation to movement.
• Work with infants developing within the normal range.
• Educate parents about ways to facilitate normal movement development in their child.
• Identify and analyze basic movement difficulties and to facilitate normal movement development.
• Recognize problems in infants at risk for developing physical problems, learning disabilities, and emotional limitations.
• Recognize indications for referral to an appropriate therapist.

This information taken from the website of the School for Body-Mind Centering.

For more information go to: www.bodymindcentering.com