Books

Books written by Sally Goddard Blythe, of INPP:

What Babies and Children Really Need

How Mothers and Fathers can Nurture Children’s Growth for Health and Well-being

New publication now available.

This book represents a milestone in our understanding of child development and what parents can do to provide their children with the best start in life. What Babies and Children Really Need examines the crucial early years from a child’s perspective - and concludes that changes in society over the past 50 years have unleashed a crisis in childhood.

Author Sally Goddard Blythe draws on the latest scientific research and clinical practice to demonstrate how a baby’s relationship with its mother has a lasting and fundamental impact. She argues that trends such as delayed motherhood, limited uptake of breastfeeding, and early return to work - driven by economic, social and political pressures - are undermining the key developmental milestones essential to success and wellbeing in later life. ‘We need a state,’ says Goddard Blythe, ‘that gives children their parents, and most of all, gives babies their mothers back.’

What Babies and Children Really Need concludes with a rallying cry for a new Charter for Childhood founded on the four main pillars of child development: nutrition - the biochemical basis for life; affection, nurture and engagement; stimulating sensory experience and motor skills through physical play; and discipline in its true sense meaning ‘instruction, correction, training in action and control’.

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ISBN: 978-1-903458-76-1
 

£16.99 per copy

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The Well Balanced Child

Movement and Early Learning

The Well-Balanced Child is a passionate manifesto for the importance of movement in early years' education.

Concern about the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of young children is reaching unprecedented levels. Around a third of British children are overweight, reflecting the decline of traditional outdoor pursuits in favour of electronic games and television. A raft of studies shows that the early years are a crucial window of opportunity, during which the brain is primed for learning through exercising the body and the senses. Yet children of today have less movement opportunities in their daily lives than any previous generation.

Sally Goddard Blythe, a leading expert in neuro-physiological development, argues for a ‘whole body’ approach to learning, which integrates the brain, senses, movement, music and play. Using case studies and the latest research, she demonstrates:

£15.39 per copy including postage to UK

Reflexes, Learning and Behaviour

New and updated edition of 'A Teacher's Window into the Child's Mind'

This unique and brilliant book explores the physical basis of learning difficulties, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), with particular focus on the role of abnormal reflexes and the effect upon subsequent development.

Sally explains how the reflexes of infancy (primitive and postural) can affect the learning ability of the child if they are not inhibited and integrated by the developing brain in the first three years of life. Each reflex is described together with its function in normal development, and its impact upon learning and behaviour, if it remains active beyond the normal period.

Simple tests for the reflexes that are crucial to education are described, together with suggestions for suitable remedial intervention. The effect of abnormal reflexes on balance and sensory processing is also described. A brief history of how current methods of intervention designed to correct abnormal reflexes have evolved and a summary of some of the relevant research in the field are included.

This book is essential reading for parents, teachers, psychologists, optometrists and anyone involved in the assessment, education and management of children and their problems. It explains why certain children are unable to benefit from the same teaching methods as their peers and why they remain immature in other aspects of their lives.
£21.00 per copy including postage to UK

Attention, Balance and Coordination – the A, B, C of Learning Success

(Wiley-Blackwell)

Due to be published Autumn 2008.

Ready Steady Go!

(Dr Celia O'Donovan and Dr Pat Preedy)

Celia and Pat have pursued a shared interest in the link between movement and brain development through the INPP. They have collaborated on a number of projects as well as training teachers and early years’ specialists in the INPP movement programme.

Ready Steady Go! is a daily fun movement programme developed for babies and young children. Stimulate your child's early development, by combining the latest research into how children learn, with more traditional, proven activities that we remember and love from our own childhoods.

Ready Steady Go! is a complete package incorporating a beautifully illustrated book with supporting interactive CD-ROM of original music, video, resources and web links.

For more information, and to purchase, visit the Ready Steady Go! website.

 

Miracle Children

(by Anna R. Buck, foreward by Peter Blythe)

“I consider Miracle Children a book that tens of thousands of parents throughout the Western world have been waiting for, because it proves that their dreams and hopes as parents can become reality.

It is the dream of every parent that their children will be happy and free from any behavioural problems or difficulties at school. But far too often their child, who is obviously intelligent, cannot show his intelligence in an acceptable academic way in the classroom, or behave like other children of the same age. The author, Anna Buck, had such a daughter. As a result she spent years, and a lot of money, trying to find what was causing her daughter’s problems and getting her daughter to try a variety of interventions to solve her difficulties.

They all failed. Eventually all her efforts and searching paid off. She ultimately found two non-invasive answers.”

Peter Blythe, founder and director of The Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology from 1975 to 2001

£12.50 Availiable direct from Anna's House LLC