Who benefits from Bal-A-Vis-X?

  

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Bal-A-Vis-X in the elementary classroom.

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Bal-A-Vis-X
    Bal-A-Vis-X (BAVX) was originally developed for regular and special education students in a K-12 school setting, where we consistenty found/find these BAVX benefits:

1. for learning disabled students -- COGNITIVE INTEGRATION IMPROVES

2. for behaviorally disordered students -- BEHAVIOR "SETTLES"

3. for attention deficit disordered / attention deficit hyperactive disordered
students -- IMPULSIVITY DECREASES AND ABILITY TO FOCUS INCREASES

4. for gifted students -- PHYSICAL COORDINATION IMPROVES AND STRESS HEADACHES
DIMINISH

5. for regular education students -- ACADEMIC SUCCESS REQUIRES LESS EFFORT

6. for students with inadequate auditory skills who “hear” but don’t attend to the
precise details of

A. pronunciation: they can/do not distringuish among initial consonant
sounds or digraphs, between one word’s ending and the next word’s
beginning, among vowel sounds --
B. verbal instructions: they grasp random pieces, seemingly by chance --
C. discussion: they rarely follow the flow and often interrupt to make
unrelated comments or ask superfluous questions --
THE RHYTHMIC PATTERNS OF BAL-A-VIS-X CREATE A NEW
AWARENESS OF THE NUANCES OF SOUND

7. for students whose visual acuity may be 20/20 yet whose vision is deficient in

A. ocular motility (tracking) --eyes that float, stick, skip, stutter, or dart
FLOW

B. binocularity (teaming) -- eyes that squint, blink excessively, or produce
extreme head/neck postures for near vision tasks WORK TOGETHER

C. visual form perception (discrimination of details) -- eyes that are careless
about, forgetful of, or inattentive to differences and similarities NOTICE

8. for all students -- gains in eye-hand coordination and subsequent growth in
confidence, hence, in earned self-esteem, are readily observable

In our experience, the only students in regular or special education settings not to benefit from BAVX are those who refuse to follow instructions.
 

 

Early on (say, even up to 2001), we had no idea that BAVX would spread beyond the world of regular and special education in a K-12 school setting. But slowly, steadiy, folks of multiple ages and from many other worlds, some dramatically different from ours, began asking us to use BAVX with them. OR their teachers, OT’s/PT’s, therapists, or parents would contact me to describe how BAVX exercises, often in modified form, were benefiting

- preschoolers, as young as 3, who can’t/won’t attend to instruction
- senior citizens, as old as 104, whose eyes are glazed and whose physical mobility is
all but fossilized

Video courtesy of program for seniors in California run by Shirley Kelley and Linda Faste.
(Bags, Balls, & Brains)

as well as those with conditions as diverse as

- dyslexia
- dysgraphia
- Asperger’s syndrome
- autism
- cerebral palsy
- traumatic brain injury
- fragile X syndrome
- bipolar disorder
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- severe hearing impairment
- severe sight impairment
- speech impairment (such as stuttering)
- aphasia (following a stroke)
- dyspraxia

For a myriad of personal/professional accounts of BAVX being used with individuals such as those listed above, please read Resonance: Elise And Other Bal-A-Vis-X Stories and see "The Complete Bal-A-Vis-X" DVD series.