So today's video is about brain, gym activities, stress buster exercises and midline crossing activities, what are the benefits of it. There are two hemispheres in the brain. Communication flow of left brain and right brain is good. New neural connections are formed in the brain and both the brains are left. Brain and Right Brain What happens at some time Our right brain becomes more mature than the left brain and the left brain is less mature and hence there is imbalance. So when we do midline
crossing activities, both the brains are equally mature and equally developed due to which Proper communication comes from the brain and overall development of the child, so today we will know about all these things, what is this midline crossing and what activities we can do. Hi, my name is Richa Jain. Welcome back to our channel Kids Development. Mental Activities If you have not subscribed my channel yet, don't forget to subscribe. Watch: Midline crossing is an imaginary line. Left brain, rig
ht brain. So what happens when a child has issues in midline crossing . There is no communication between left brain and right brain. Due to which the child has a dominant hand that many times we say that he is left handed or right handed, he is not able to decide, the child faces many issues in performing gross motor activities and fine motor activities, as well as difficulty in reading and writing. Children face issues in lacing and small day to day life tasks. If there are issues in midline c
rossing, then what happens ? We then have to work beyond that. Now how can we find out that you will see the child Even if the bat is bowling the ball, then he will catch the bat with only one hand and will not use both the hands because to use both the hands, what will happen in the mid line that the left body parts will have to go towards the right ones. to the left and they will not do that if it is right handed then they will not want to take it to the left side they will not take it to the
right a left side and then they will just play it to the right and when they have to play it to the left side If they have to do something , they will use the left hand, then the right hand will not be taken towards the left, the left hand will not be taken towards the right, there is a restriction in their movement and due to which their coordination will be weak and there will be issues in their understanding. In performing small tasks like picking up the ball and carrying the ball, which is b
asic in batting and catching, they will have a lot of issues in even crawl and walking, so for that we have to make them perform certain activities so that the midline crossing develops. Now, if the midline crossing develops, what will be the benefits? New neural connections will be formed in the child. If more neural connections are formed in the brain, there will be coordination between both the brains. There will be communication due to which the child's understanding, attention and learning
will improve. Reading and writing which Our end goal is that the child will start performing every task easily and the child's attention will improve and will get help in overall learning, so the child will be able to develop well, so all this is beneficial. I have already shared with you two of the line crossing activities. I have shared videos. In one video, I had shared the exercises. They are stress buster exercises. They are also called brain gym exercises. I had shown you step by step in t
he video that if the child is not doing it or is very small, then we can teach him the same. How can we do this and how can we grow with him as he grows up? And in the second video, I had shared with you nine midline crossing activities that how we can do midline crossing activities with the child. Nine Midline Crossing Activities: I have made separate videos on both exercises and activities, I will put the link of both in the description box and today I have brought with you some more different
activities for midline crossing so that you can benefit from it, let's have. A look at the video Activity number one : A white board has been placed in front of the child. The instruction is that the child has to form a rainbow using one hand. If the child is not doing it on his own, you have to do it by holding hands with full physical prompting, then you can do this. You will see that only one hand is moving from left to right and the mid line crossing is taking place. This is a very easy act
ivity and we can do it with full physical encouragement to the children. Activity number two. Now I have made a spiral form and the child can follow that track. The child's object is to move the car. Manipulation has improved. The child is moving his fingers dexterously. There is fine motor activity to manipulate the object. Wrist movement is coming and the biggest thing is that eye and hand coordination is also improving. Activity number three is to make a cross in this way. The child has to dr
ive the airplane and car on that track. Now again there will be midline crossing in it because the child will do it with a single hand and at the same time you will see that the child's visual tracking and eye and hand coordination is also improving through these activities. Activity number four is the most favorite activity of all the therapists. We have to make the Sign of Infinity Sign of Infinity from the children in every direction. Like this time it is on the floor. Sometimes they paste pa
per on the wall and make it on it. Make it in the air. Make it in the air. In the finger motion it is a very good midline crossing activity activity number five is cross clap you sit in front of the child like this and make the child clap in the cross then midline crossing will happen and at the same time this is a group activity so the child will develop social There will also be skills and how to cooperate with others, that thing develops in the child. Activity number six: I have made the chil
d sit on the gym ball and then he has to take claps with a certain hand. You have to instruct with which hand to clap . The midline crossing will make the child's vestibule neat because the child has to sit while balancing on the ball and this activity will also bring stability in the child's body and improve the body posture. Another benefit of this is that as I make hand movements of the child, the child will Identification right print out has been given to the person that you have to keep the
leg here. They do not understand what is the other way and they do more movement. Now I have told them that the leg on the paper has to be kept stable and the left leg I will instruct according to the instruction, the child has to work, now in this way I gave him a visual, now he will lift the left leg and drop the bottles on the right side, according to the instruction, hit yellow, hit yellow, hit green, hit orange now. We have to perform the same activity with the other leg also and then chan
ge the visual so that the child understands that now I have to keep the left leg on the paper and drop it with the right. Activity No. 8 is to stand back to back. And cross clap is to be given. In this we have to pay attention that we maintain eye contact with the child so that there is visual midline crossing and there is improvement in the child's reading and writing. Activity Number Nine Up We will focus on setting activity. In this I took hand prints . Let the child know which hand to move.
Keeping the right hand stable, the object on the left has to be put in the basket. This is a very easy and effective midline crossing activity. Now we have to do the same process with the left and right. Tap on Yellow Tap on Black Tap on Brown Green Activity No. 10 is a very good midline crossing activity. Initially slow command has to be given. We have to wait for the child to perform the action. When the child starts doing it easily, then we have to give him instructions quickly. Due to which
we will also work on the speed and response time of the child. Activity number 11: We have to hold both the ears with crossed hands in this way and do set ups. This is a very good stress buster and brain gym activity. Also, whenever we stretch the ears. When we do or pull or pull, it works like a pressure point because I have told you many times that our ears are directly linked with our brain, so whatever brain is in the nerves, we are sending direct messages. And the attention of the brain inc
reases and the connections are better formed. Activity No. 12: In the lying position, I have given the object transfer to the child. Again, visual hands have to be given so that the child does not get confused and the child can easily perform it. Midline crossing is also done. Along with this, we are also working on the trunk rotation of the child. The more different variety of movements you give to the child, the more will be the physical and mental development of the child. We have to perform
the same activity from both the sides. Activity number 13, now the same . Object Transfer: We have to make the child in prone position for the movement of the upper body so that the child can lift his body upwards and at the same time there is middle line crossing, so for this we have got this activity performed from both the sides. We have to make people do this. The more angles we give, the stronger the child's vision becomes. Activity number 14: We have to sit behind the child in this way. Cl
apping is the identification, understanding and performance of the child, but there is much more to the child than this. If I talk about development, because see the auditory skills are developing because we are clapping the child, identification [music] in the crossing and in the brain development of the child. Can help, a These are all structured activities which we will organize in the sitting area, a Now even when we give free play, we can make children do a lot of activities like midline cr
ossing, free play, what is the most if I talk to children. Catching Throwing and Batting Bowling, if I talk about it the most, we do it with children in free play, then look at it when you are holding the bat with both the hands, okay, so in this way, what you have to do is to stand behind the child. You have to make him hold the bat with both his hands and then you have to make him bat, so this is the number one thing bowling. When you are bowling then help the child out so that the child throw
s here and there. Okay, you give him the target that if he Stand at one place and have to throw on the other side. Look at the eye movement. If the eyes are crossing the mid line, then this is mid line crossing. Catching is fine. You make the child sit, sometimes let the child roll on the floor to catch here. If the child is not using both the hands himself, sit behind the child with one person and make him hold the ball with his hand. Free play, this is free play for the child. Through catching
, throwing, blowing a bowling, you can make the midline crossing and by doing midline crossing, I tell again and again that the speech development of the child also because the neural connections will be good, the brain development will be good, the tension will be good and all the sensory If these issues come down gradually , the speech and language development of the child will also happen. If you work on these, you will also see a lot of effect in working memory. We tell children that the chi
ld is not able to remember old things. And he does not care about when and what answer to give, all those issues which are solved by midline crossing, it is a very very important activity and when you try it and you will get improvement, then you will definitely see very good results . Please do try this with your children, I have given the link of two videos in the description box, go and watch them too. Apart from these activities, if I talk about around, we have 35 midline crossing exercises
and activities. Of these, you perform two or three at a time with the child and when the child starts doing it independently, then start doing it. Alright I hope these videos are going to be beneficial for you. Please follow them and see the changes yourself and don't forget to like share comment and subscribe my channel thank you so much
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