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The Science Behind the Play

PlayWisely uses key insights and research coming from science, education and performance sports to help optimize your child’s natural development.

 

Research has shown that children’s earliest experiences build key structures of the brain that are used to make sense of the world for the rest of their lives. 

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PlayWisely has taken the latest and most robust findings from science, academia and sport as it relates to childhood play and brain development to create an innovative curriculum that’s designed to optimize your child’s natural learning potential. We build your child's developmental 'tool chest' of skills that will help them make their way through this rapidly changing world.

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Vision &
Perception​
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Visual attention is now understood to be the gateway for cognitive learning. We use an innovative Cognitive Card System to engage and exercise visual field navigation skills, speed of processing, and clarity of perception.

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Language & Perception​
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The PlayWisely Method engages early language skills, incorporating rhythmic repetition of sounds, words, and phrases, as well as encouraging age-appropriate response times, and dialogue, providing key foundations in language literacy skills.

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Attribute & Recognition​
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The essential foundation skills for learning include recognizing the basic attributes of color, shape, size, and quantity. Using our rhythmical cognitive card system we simultaneously teach these basic foundation skills while stimulating memory. 

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Gross & Fine
Motor Skills​
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The Cognitive Card System incorporates age-appropriate coordination of motor responses, engaging early executive function and motor planning skills.

Our in-person classes offer age-appropriate developmental progressions in 8 key areas of movement: catching & throwing, kicking, striking, fine motor skills, balance, strength, translational and rotational movements.

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Our developmental sciences and theories have been featured by leaders in science and education.

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