Brain Gym® is the registered trademark for an educational, sensorimotor program. It grew out of clinical studies started in 1969 Dr Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D an educational therapist, who was looking for ways to help children and adults who had been identified as having learning difficulties.
Dr Paul Dennison began researching as founder and director of the Valley Remedial Group Learning Centres in California. These eight learning centres offered Dennison the opportunity to actively explore the effects of specific movements on the ability to learn various academic skills. During this time he studied the sensory integration work of Newell Kephart and Jean Ayres, he worked with Dr Louis Jacque, a leading pioneer in vision training. For his Doctoral Dissertation he drew on brain research including that of Sperry and Ornstein to research the relationship of covert speech to the acquisition of beginning reading skills.
Brain Gym addresses the physical components of learning–the visual, auditory, fine motor and postural skills.
