Candi Cosgrove M.Ed

Candi has been teaching for over 28 years in the education field.

Available for:

• Bal-A-Vis-X / Movement Based Learning consultant
• Teacher In-services
• Professional Development
• Parent Education
• Brain Gym 101 Workshop
• Private Consultations
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Phone
(603) 434-9115

Email
info@candicosgrove.com

Located in
Windham, N. H.

Course description

Bal-A-Vis-X
with Bill Hubert

Children working with Bill Huber doing Bal-A-Vis-X
Bal-A-Vis-X is a series of Balance / Auditory / Vision eXercises, of varied complexity, most of which are deeply rooted in rhythm. These exercises require full-body coordination and focused attention. The program utilizes beanbags, racquetballs, balance boards, and multiple principles and activities from Educational Kinesiology. It demands cooperation, promotes self-challenge, and fosters peer teaching. It is school friendly and just plain fun.

Bal-A-Vis-X exercises number more than 200. Individual exercises vary in complexity from one hand tossing/catching a single beanbag (filled with fine grain sand) to both hands bounce-juggling four racquetballs in rhythmic sequence. Partner exercises call for as many as six balls to be in simultaneous motion.

Yet these exercises are not designed for the athletic and daring. They are for everyone. Kindergartners are fully capable of more than half of them. Eight-year-olds can master all but the most intricate. Even the non-athletic and physically challenged find Bal-A-Vis-X well within their abilities.

Bal-A-Vis-X is for every student. It is effective for students who are labeled:
--- • Learning disabled: Results include improved cognitive integration
--- • Behaviorally deficit disordered/attention deficit hyperactive disordered: Results include decreases in impulsivity and increases in attention span
--- • Gifted: Results include improved physical coordination and stress headaches diminish
--- • Regular: Results include improved academic success yet requires less effort

Bal-A-Vis-X benefits students whose auditory skills are inadequate for academic success. Such students “hear” but do not attend to the precise details of:
--- • Pronunciation
--- • Verbal instructions
--- • Discussion

For these students, the rhythmic patters of Bal-A-Vis-X crate a new awareness of the nuances of sound.

Bal-A-Vis-X is for students whose visual acuity may be 20/20, yet whose vision remains deficient in:
--- • Ocular motility (tracking)
--- • Binocularity (teaming)
--- • Visual form perception (discrimination of details)
For all students the gains in eye-hand coordination and subsequent growth in overall confidence, hence self-esteem, are readily observable.

Bal-A-Vis-X was created by Bill Hubert, a teacher who instructs language arts and a Bal-A-Vis-X lab at Hadley Middle School in Wichita, Kansas.

Find out more information on Bal-A-Vis-X by visiting their website.

Check out these sites for more info:
Bags, Balls and Brains
MOSAIC Integrated Learning
Innovative Connections

This is an abstract on research showing Bal-A-Viz-X and standardized test score correlation. Download here.