INPP offers one day training courses for teachers in the use of the INPP Schools’ Programme, the course is available throughout the year.
INPP offers one day teacher training courses throughout the year at 1, Stanley Street, Chester from 10:00 – 17:00 (unless otherwise stated). Next available course dates:
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There is a growing body of evidence to support the long held theory that control of balance, motor skills and integration of early reflexes are linked to academic achievement. Now, not only can these problems be identified by teachers, but a series of studies over the last five years demonstrates that, in many cases, something can be done about them. The remedy is available in the form of a simple daily exercise programme, which can be completed in school for ten minutes per day.
This programme is devised by INPP and is based on a clinical programme that has been in use since the 1970s. The clinical programme has been adapted for schools to be used with larger groups of children within the school setting.
INPP Schools’ Programme has been the subject of published and independent small scale studies.
The programme centres on a series of developmental movements that are carried out each day under teachers’ supervision. These are based on movements normally made by the developing child in the first year of life. INPP exercises take children back to the very beginning of balance training.
All exercises are carried out on the floor and help to develop proper head alignment with the body (the basis for good posture), the ability to use left and right sides, and upper and lower sections of the body in different ways (the basis for coordination).
Only when a child can complete these very simple movements with automaticity does he/she move on to repeat the movements in a more challenging position. By using natural movements in a development sequence, improved coordination becomes an integrated function, rather than a skill, which has only been learned as a result of practice.
A series of studies have been completed to assess the reliability of both the INPP Test Battery and Developmental Exercise Programme in:
Further reading by Sally Goddard Blythe is available:
It has been brought to our attention that a small number of courses have been run outside of the United Kingdom which have either not been licensed by INPP or which have not followed the set curriculum. If you have any concerns about the validity of the certificate you have received or a course you are planning to attend, please contact either INPP Chester or the person listed as the INPP Principal in the country where the course is being run. A list of INPP Principals may be be found at on our International Page
