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Websites and resources

Schools and Practitioner Training programs

Note that many of the practitioner training programs here also have client therapy centers and education programs. Also, many schools list or link to practitioners who have trained in these approaches.

School for Body-Mind Centering®, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, RSMT. Amherst, Massachusetts. Somatic therapy and infant developmental movement education.  www.bodymindcentering.com

Green River Dance for Global Somatics, Suzanne River, RSMT. Minneapolis, MN. School for somatic education/therapy, bodywork and energy healing. www.globalsomatics.com

International Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists Association (ISMETA). Certifying body and consortium of body-mind therapies. http://www.ismeta.org/

Institute of Neuro-Physiological Psychology. Sally Goddard and Peter Blythe; Education and therapies for neuro-developmental delay. www.inpp.org.uk

International Neurokinesiology Institute of Movement Development and Reflex Integration, Svetlana Masgutova. Poland. Reflex integration, tactile therapy for neurodeveloment. www.masgutovamethod.com

Pre and Perinatal Psychology Training, Annie Brook, RSME. Boulder, CO. www.anniebrook.com

Soma-action Movement Therapy Training, Martha Eddy, RSMT. New York, NY. www.wellnesscke.net/pt.htm

Minnesota Leaning Resource Center, Lyelle Palmer & Bob DeBoer. Minneapolis, MN. Innovative learning readiness training & research project. www.themlrc.org

HANDLE Institute, Judith Bluestone. Natural non-drug education program for mid to high level neuro-development. www.handle.org

Brain Gym, Paul Dennison, high level neurodevelopment classroom activities. www.braingym.org

Rhythmic Movement Training, Harald Blomberg. Gentle movement program for low level neurodevelopment. www.haraldblomberg.com

Client Education and Therapy centers

Note that many of the practitioner training programs above also have client therapy centers and education programs. Also, many schools list or link to practitioners who have trained in these approaches.

Plan for Learning, Janet Oliver, St. Louis Park, MN. Neuro-developmental training for children including autism spectrum disorder. http://www.planforlearning.com/

Developmental Movement Center, Bette Lamont, MA, DMT. Seattle, WA. www.developmentalmovement.org

Turnquist Child Enrichment Center, A Chance to Grow  Minneapolis, MN. Childcare center with neurodevelopmental programs and therapies. www.actg.org/programs/turnquist/turnquist_program.htm

Amajoy, Lenore Grubinger, Hadley, MA. Holistic BMC® therapy and education center. http://www.amajoy.net/

Birth Support

Minnesota Families for Midwifery: www.mfmidwifery.org

Minnesota Birth Network: www.minnesotabirthnetwork.com

The Childbirth Collective: www.childbirthcollective.org

Birthright International: www.birthright.com

Birthpartners: www.birthpartners.com

Spinning Babies: www.spinningbabies.com

Breastfeeding, Babies and Parenting in Early Childhood

La Leche League: www.lllusa.org

Holistic Moms Network: www.holisticmoms.org

My Healthy Beginning: http: www.myhealthybeginning.com/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=2881

Mothering Magazine: www.mothering.com

Becoming Well Within Minnesota: www.becomingwell.org

Publications

Aposhyan, Susan.  (1999).  Natural intelligence: Body-mind integration and human development. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.

Ayres, A. J. (1972)  Sensory Integration and Learning Disorders. Los Angeles: Western Pyschological Services.

Bainbridge-Cohen, Bonnie. (1993). Sensing, feeling, & action.  Northampton, Massachusetts: Contact Editions.

Bainbridge-Cohen, Bonnie & Mills, Margaret. (1986). Developmental movement therapy. Northampton, MA: The School for Body-Mind Centering.

Bartenieff, I. (1980).  Body Movement: Coping with the Environment.  Amsterdam: Gordon & Breach.

Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F (2002) Infant research and adult treatment: co-constructing interactions.  Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic.

Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah. (1999) Mother nature: maternal instincts and how they shape the human species. New York: Random House.

Boehm, A. & Brassard, M. (1994). Preschool assessment: Perspectives and strategies.  New York: Guilford.

Briggs, John and Peat, F. David. (1989) Turbulent Mirror: Chaos theory and the science of wholeness. New York: Harper and Row.

Brown, R. (1974). The First Language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Brook, Ann.  From conception to crawling.  Ann Brook Publisher.  113 Bass Circle, Lafayette, CO 80026.

Centers for Disease Control. Cited in article by Jeannine Stein of LA Times: Strollers may roll kids toward obesity. Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. 10-19-03; E5.

Clark, Jane, Chair, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland. Cited in article by Jeannine Stein of LA Times: Strollers may roll kids toward obesity. Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. 10-19-03; E5.

Clearfield, Melissa and Thelen, Esther. (2001) Stability and flexibility in the acquisition of skilled movement. Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, ed. Charles Nelson and Monica Luciana. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Davis, B, Moon, R, Sachs, H, and Ottolini, M. (1998) Effects of sleep position on infant motor development. Pediatrics. 102:5, 1135-1140.

Dewey, C, Fleming, P, Godling, J, and ASLPAC Study Team. Does the supine sleeping position have any adverse effects on the child? II. Development in the first 18 months. Pediatrics. 101: 1. 1-1998.

Eddy, Martha.  (1984).  Thoughts on vision, movement and children.  Contact Quarterly, 9, (2), 48-49.

Eddy, Martha (Summer/Fall 2000) Developing a Perceptual-Motor Screen for Quantitative and Qualitative Movement Assessment.  Northampton, MA Currents: A Journal of the Body-Mind Centering Association. 

Eddy, Martha (2001) Movement Retraining: Principles of Perceptual-Motor Development, Experiential Perspectives from Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body-Mind Centering and Other Somatic Disciplines.  Anthology Pro.

Fernbach, Kathleen and Fogarty, Cheryl. (1999) Interview with Director of MN SID Center and staff of Health Infant Mortality of MN Department of Public Health. Minneapolis, MN.

Fiorentino, Mary R.  (1981).  A basis for sensori-motor development – Normal and abnormal: The influence of primitive, postural reflexes on the development and distribution of tone.  Springfield, IL: Thomas.

Fiorentino, Mary R.  (1972).  Normal and abnormal development: The influence of primitive reflexes on motor development.  Springfield, IL: Thomas.

Sally Goddard Blythe, Well-Balanced Child. Gloucestershire, UK. Hawthorne Press. 2004

Goddard, Susan. (2002) Reflexes, Learning and Behavior.  Eugene, OR: Fern Ridge Press.

Goddard-Blythe, Sally and Blythe, Peter. (2000) Learning problems and neuro-developmental delays. Eugene, OR: Fern Ridge Press and Pacific Video Services.

Goddard-Blythe, Sally. (2000) Early learning in the balance: priming the first ABC; attention, balance, coordination. Support for Learning, 15, 4, 154-157.

Goddard, Susan. (1996) A teacher’s window into the child’s mind.  Eugene, OR: Fern Ridge Press. 

Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. New York: Bantam.

Grubinger, Lenore. (2002-2003) Clinical observations in colleagual communication. Well Baby, Well Family Center. Northampton, MA.

Hamburg, Janet and Hammond, A. (1989) Laban-based movement activities for children with sensorimotor dysfunction. International Conference Proceedings: Movement Education for a New Age. 78 - 83. Brock University.

Hannaford, Carla. (1995) Smart Moves: Why all learning is not in your head. Arlington, VA: Great Ocean Publishers.

Hartley, Linda. (1995) Wisdom of the Body Moving. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.

Kandel, Eric, James Schwartz and Thomas Jessell. (2000) Principles of Neural Science. New York: McGraw Hill

Kermoian, Roseanne and Campos, Joseph (1988) Locomotor experiences: A facilitator of spatial cognitive development. Child Development, 59, 908-917.

Kestenberg, J. (1975).  Children and Parents.  NY: Jason Aronson Press.

Klaiber, Edward. (2001)  Hormones and the Mind. New York: Harper Collins

Kris, E.C. (2000). (ed.). Compendium on Developmental Assessments.  Cambridge. MA:  MIND Inc.

Kris E.C. (1992). Attention vs. involvement span and the learning disabled.  Symposium on Lessons from the Front, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, April 15.  Unpublished paper.

Kris, E. C. (1980). Muscular stress tests during simultaneous EOG & EEG recordings used to differentiate some types of cerebral palsy, and to help determine habilitative training procedures. Journal of EEG & Clinical Neurophysiology  49, 306- 309

Kris, E. C. (1973). Psychomotor activation through visuo-motor training in dyslexic children with intermittent ‘sleep-like states.  The Nature of Sleep. Jovan, U. (ed) Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.

Lamont, Bette. (2003) Clinical observation in collegeal communication. Developmental Movement and Learning Center,  Seattle, WA.

Lamont, Bette and Loyd, Gayle.  (2003) Learning and Movement. www.developmentalmovement.org.

Lamont, Bette.  (1988, September).  The learning process and developmental movement: The impact of movement on the mind and its growth.  The New Times. p.14-15.

Minnesota Sudden Infant Death Center. SIDS and the child care provider. Public health campaign literature published by the Minnesota Sudden Infant Death Center nd Children’s Hospitals and Clinics. Minneapolis, MN.

Moore, Josephine.  (1988).  Neuroanatomy simplified.  Mexico: Centro de Aprendizaje de Cuernavaca.

Munakata, Yuko and Merva Stedron, Jennifer. (2001)  Neural network models of cognitive development. Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, ed. Charles Nelson and Monica Luciana. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

National Research Council Institute of Medicine (NRCIM, 2000). From neurons to neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

Nelson, Charles and Luciana, Monica, ed, (2001), Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Neufeld, Naomi, MD, medical director of KidShape Foundation and clinical professor of pediatrics at University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Cited in article by Jeannine Stein of LA Times: Strollers may roll kids toward obesity. Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. 10-19-03; E5.

O’Dell, Nancy and Cook, P.A. (1997). Stopping hyperactivity – A new solution. Garden City, NY: Avery Publishing Group.

Olsen, Andrea.  (1991).  Body stories: A guide to experimental anatomy.  Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press.

Palmer, Lyelle and DeBoer, Bob. (1976) Stimulating maturity through accelerated readiness training. Unpublished paper, New Visions School, Minneapolis, MN.

Pert, Candace.  (1999).  Molecules of emotion: Why you feel the way you feel.  NY: Touchstone.

Piaget, Jean. (1960) The Child’s Conception of the World. Patterson, NJ: Littlefield Adams and Co.

Mooney, Carol Garhart.  Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erickson, Piaget & Vygotsky

Ratey, John. (2001) A user’s guide to the brain. New York: Random House,

Rogers, Spence,; Ludington, Jim and Graham, Shirley. (1999) Motivation and learning, Evergreen, CO: Peak Learning Systems.

Rothbart, Mary and Posner, Michael. (2001) Mechanism and Variation in the Development of Attentional Networks. Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience, ed. Charles Nelson and Monica Luciana. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Small, Meredith. (1999) Our babies, ourselves: How biology and culture shape the way we parent. New York: Random House.

Steinberg, Joel, MD, professor of pediatrics at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX. Cited in article by Jeannine Stein of LA Times: Strollers may roll kids toward obesity. Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. 10-19-03; E5.

Teitelbaum, P.  Teitelbaum, O, Nye J, Fryman, and J. Maurer, R. (1998). Movement Analysis in infancy may be useful for early diagnosis of autism.  In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 95, 13982 – 13987.

Teitelbaum, P, Teitelbaum, O, Fryman, and J, Maurer R (2002) Reflexes gone astray in Austim in Infancy.  The Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, 6 , 15- 22.

Thelen, Esther. (1995). Development as a Dynamic System. American Psychologist. 50:2, 79-95.

Tortora, S.  (1994 Aug/Sept) Join my dance: The unique movement style of each infant and toddler can invite communication expression and intervention.  In Zero To Three: Bulletin of National (  ) for clinical infant programs. 15, 1-1-12.

Tortora, S (in press). The Dancing Dialogue: Nonverbal Observational skills for Assessment and Treatment of Young Children and their Families.  Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks

Watson, Christopher (2002) Interview, Center for Early Education and Development, University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN.

West Laboratory Center for Child and Family Studies in collaboration with California Department of Education (1995). The program for infant toddler caregivers. Sacramento, CA.