[Adta] neuroscience etc

[Heather Hill]

Thanks for your response, Jenn.  I so agree that we have lots of offer from our dance therapy perspective.

Just wanted to bring up an instance which nearly got me writing to the newspaper - except I was too busy at the time and am not really expert in this early childhood field. 

 Last week, the discussion came up again on the impact, particularly for very young children, of TV watching - it seems there's been some research showing that children who have watched a lot of TV, end up with behavioural problems later on.  The discussion on this was all about the effects of seeing violence on TV etc. but so far as I could gather, no one was talking about the impact of young bodies staying still and constricted for so long.  Surely dance therapists would have a lot to say about this eg developmentally, small children need to move their bodies (where does all that free flowing energy go if they don't move?), they also use their bodies to learn about the world, to act out their imagination, feelings, social interactions etc....and so on.  I wonder if any dance therapists have managed to give some input to this discussion in the U.S.?

Lora - thanks again for starting up the discussion.

Best wishes,
Heather
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