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TWGPC 18: Interventions that IMPACT both sides of the brain
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Bilateral integration, bilateral integration has several different components to it.
But one of the things I want you to think about is when you're doing lesson planning, like Orton Gillingham, oh activity is when kids finger-write the letter or the word in the air.
If they're only doing that with their dominant hand, they're only making an impression on the opposite side of their body.
So, for example, if they're right-handed, they only make an impression on the left side of their body.
So why not put both index fingers together and air-write with both sides of the body to spell the word their name, the spelling word, whatever? Put both sides of both fingers together, write the word in the air, and impact both sides of the brain by impacting both sides of the brain.
You are going to improve the impact that and the retention and the learning, and you're going to create this atmosphere where all the kids are accessing it on both sides of the brain so that both sides of the brain are going to be able to be there to reinforce the memory, they're going to be able to reinforce the recall, the sequencing, the motor planning to help the spelling or what, whatever it is that you're trying to reinforce to them.
One of the Orton-Gillingham techniques is to air right with the finger, your index finger, and a dominant hand.
I suggest you go to the next level, put both fingers together and nick fingers together, write them together, and make an impression on both brain hemispheres.
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