Discovering your body
Learn to feel and move your body to develop voluntary motor skills
Phase 3
Type of project: Feasibility study
Disability concerned: Mental disability, Motor disability, Polydisability, Spastic tetraparesis, Cerebral palsy, Global developmental delay
Topics : Autonomy, Health, Development of voluntary motor skills, Child development, Building the individual, Physical and mental well-being, Quality of life
Status: In progress
The project is aimed at children whose multi-disability generally hinders the development of voluntary motor skills, even though certain cognitive and psychological skills are preserved. The idea here is to support the emergence of their voluntary motor skills, as well as the discovery and representation of their bodies.
The project is aimed at children whose multi-disability generally hinders the development of voluntary motor skills, even though certain cognitive and psychological skills are preserved.
The idea here is to support the emergence of their voluntary motor skills, as well as the discovery and representation of their bodies.
How can we learn to move and feel our bodies when our bodies are beyond our control, sending us incoherent and even painful messages?
Spastic quadriplegia not only affects the control of our muscles, but also the sensory messages emanating from our movements. Somaesthetic sensitivity, in particular proprioception, struggles to provide sufficiently clear information about our body’s position in space.
Our hypothesis is that, beyond brain lesions, this lack of proprioceptive information prevents children from learning to move coherently. Without proprioception, movement cannot be controlled in terms of organisation, strength or address. This also opens the door to spasticity!
