Kinesthetic Strategy of Diagnosis and Support to Aid Children's Development

Abstract

This method of work with children needing assistance involves two elements: (1) intersemiotic transformation of music and pictures into motorial behavior, and (2) visualisation, an important way of coping with one's own problems and deprivations. Every teacher and tutor who focuses his/her efforts on creative education has to combine it with reparation (therapeutic) education. It turns out that recently the teacher has become a therapist of "the first contact", recognising the initial symptoms of a child's failures, their problems, deficiencies. It is the teacher who makes attempts to support the child's development. Activities based on inventing movement according to music and creating kinesthetic interpretations that reach to mental notions of the subject's exercise may become a way of taking up this kind of influence, especially in young aging from seven to ten. These exercises create an opportunity for children's recognition, which is always the first step in a successful therapeutic activity.