Università Roma Tre

Neuromotor experience and experimentation are the foundation of every maturation process and of somatic, emotional, affective, relational, and social growth. From the infinitely vast external world, even before birth, the child uses the body to relate to itself and the world around it, absorbing all possible sensory experiences through emotions, imprinting them in the infinitely small of its neural synapses and thus transforming them into neuromotor learning.

Growing through sensory experiences and therefore its own perceptual functions, the new individual is able to experience the surrounding environment, define its boundaries, possibilities, and limits of its body's action, communicating on a somatic-psychic level with its own genome and allowing its epigenetic modulation as a phenotypic response to the motor and emotional stimuli it experiences.
Through play (relationship with objects, the environment, and people) and movement, children achieve and perfect not only important skills such as balance, concentration, attention, and physical abilities, but also awareness, that is, their own bodily identity (somato-aesthetic and somato-sensorial), and therefore emotional-relational, acquiring awareness of their own identity with and ability to communicate with others.
A fundamental prerequisite of Psychomotor Education is the comprehensive consideration of the mind-body unity in childhood and adolescence, in a holistic dimension, and the understanding of the purpose of psychomotor action, even when physiological differences and defects exist. The program focuses on understanding the aspects and elements of anatomy and physiopathology and movement disorders from childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood according to the Structural Aesthetic Biological Model (MSEB, Villanova M., 2006).
Direct observation of the child. Embryo-fetal development and risk factors. Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Embryogenesis, and Comparative Ethology of Motor Development.
Psychomotor delay. Cognitive development. Emotional development. Acquisition of the body schema. Body awareness. Origins of gesture imitation. Memory. Play as a learning tool.
Cognitive development according to J. Piaget. Dyspraxia. Hemispheric dominance. Lateralization disorders. Concepts of number and quantity.

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VILLANOVA M.: “Affiancamento educativo alle Sostanze di uso voluttario”, La Sapienza Editore, Roma 2021.