Opening the Door on Academic Progress - Individual Therapy

Our own research (2006 -2010) shows that:
The children in this study all had 12 months of Open Doors Therapy. They were all underachieving at school and were getting further behind. We looked at their attainment before and after therapy and here is what we found.

•  Children who have Neuro Motor Immaturity (NMI) are more likely to attain below age expectation in reading, writing and maths
 Among underachieving NMI children, the greater the improvement in NMI the greater the progress in Reading, Writing and Maths

The graphs below show the children’s National Curriculum progress against their NMI improvement as a result of therapy. One point is equivalent to four months progress .

Opening the Door on Academic Progress  - Group Exercise Class

The following 9 children did a daily exercise focusing upon Neuro Motor Immaturity. The graphs show their progress before the therapy and their progress after therapy. One point is equivalent to four months progress. The majority of children accelerated their progress.

Reading Progress Child  Before After A 2 5 B 2 5 C  2 4 D 2 6 E 1 5 F 3 5 G 3 5 H 2 5 I 1 2

Writing Progress Child  Before After A 1 5 B 1 5 C  1 3 D 0 12 E 2 6 F 2 2 G 1 2 H 1 1 I 2 3

Maths Progress Child  Before After A 1 2 B 1 3 C  0 8 D 0 4 E 1 0 F 2 5 G 2 5 H 2 5 I 1 3

Opening the Door on Below Average Attainment

At Open Doors Therapy we looked at 262, 5-7 year old across 4 schools, and looked at how well the children were achieving compared to their level of Neuro Motor Immaturity.

Children with Neuro Motor Immaturity are up to 15 times more likely to be in the below average group.

Children with Neuro Motor Immaturity are up to 3 times more likely to be below National Expectation.

Opening the Door on Handwriting and Age Appropriate Pencils

Open Doors Therapy was selected by Love Writing Co to independently research the effects of age appropriate sized pencils. We found that when first picking up the LoveWritingCo  pencil 95% of children had better pencil control and 80% wrote faster.

Opening the Door on prewriting exercise

At Open Doors Therapy we support schools with innovative and effective practice. There are now a number of classes, who before writing do the Open Doors Thirty Second Warm Up.

Teachers have found that children write quicker, produce more work, write neater and are generally more focused, quieter and less fidgety. It should hardly be surprising after all handwriting is a physical activity and before doing any sport or gymnastics you should warm up!