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Innovative
yoga card set facilitates learning through yogic movement, pre-literacy
and language development
Tybee
Island - June 13, 2010.
The
slogan printed on the cover of Christine L. Ristuccia’s card set says it
all: “Changing the world one pose at a time.” Indeed, the goal of Learn
with Yoga: ABC Yoga Cards for Kids ($19.95, www.learnwithyoga.com)
is to promote childhood wellness and facilitate learning, all using yogic
movement.
Each
alphabet card highlights one yoga posture and contains a cute, clear
picture for visual reference with letters in child’s script in both
upper and lower case. The back of each card describes the benefits of the
posture and provides verbal cues for correctly forming the pose.
Additionally,
a color-coded border on each card indicates which postures can be used to
support specific behaviors. For example:
Orange
poses help to stimulate creativity in art and writing
Blue
poses help with communication skills, particularly listening and being
open to other points of view
Yellow
poses foster self-esteem, risk-taking, leadership, and better
decision-making
Each
alphabet card is also accompanied by an instructor card that contains the
same verbal cues as well as reading readiness and language development
questions. Sample questions for the “A is for Archer” card include
“Say a word that rhymes with archer” and “Say a word that rhymes with bow” as well as “Where is your left hand when you shoot the
arrow?” and “Does an archer practice inside or outside?”
Notes
Ristuccia, “The specific pre-literacy and language development questions
that correspond to each yoga posture take advantage of the well-researched
link between tactile/kinetic movement and better reception and retention.
In other words,” she elaborates, “kids can not only be calmer by doing
yoga, but also smarter!”
Ristuccia
envisions three main audiences for her cards: educators, yoga instructors,
and parents.
Educators
can benefit by introducing yoga into their classrooms or clinics
through physical and mental breaks that integrate tactile/kinetic
learning activities that result in more grounded, alert, calm, and
receptive students.
Yoga
instructors who teach kids can easily introduce or enhance specific
supplementary learning concepts into their classes such as opposites,
spatial concepts, “wh” questions, and attributes.
Parents
will benefit from this easy-to-use resource that allows them to
introduce yoga into the home to produce calmer and more grounded
children.
Savannah,
GA–Sept
28, 2009.Say It
Right is a finalist for the 2009 Creative Coast Innovation Awards
in the small business category.
The Creative Coast Innovation Awards, part of The
Creative Coast Alliance (TCCa), recognizes companies who have
demonstrated bold innovation in business, non-profit, education,
government and sustainability. The Creative Coast Alliance’ s
mission is on furthering the development of a creative and
innovation-based economy in the Savannah, Georgia metropolitan
area.
Say
It Right is a pioneer in speech-language pathology for it’s
development of a unique phonetically consistent remediation system
to evaluate and treat /r/ articulation disorders—the R-sound.
The system developed by Say It Right’s founder and president,
Christine Ristuccia, is called The Entire World of R™. The Entire World of R™
has been successfully used by speech-language pathologists (SLP),
special educators and parents to have treated an estimated
(conservatively) 100,000 children world wide.
Say
It Right is proud to be one of three finalists in the small
business category for 2009. The small business award is to
recognize a small business for a creative or innovative
development, program or application of technology related to their
business. Entrants will be judged on their ability to manage
barriers and challenges that typically face a small business, and
on how well they adapt their business, products or services to
meet market challenges.
Tybee
Island, GA-Sept 29, 2009. Say
It Right announced the start of “I Love The Entire World of R™”
Contest with a grand prize of $500 for the winning entry.
Do
you love The Entire World of R™?To give back to our loyal customers, Say It Right is
offering $500 to the best entry that can explain why “ I Love The Entire World of R™.”
Winning
entries must be a video or Blog posting on the Web.Judging for the winning entry is based on the submission
that (1)
most completely answers the question, (2) describes the
impact that The Entire World of R™
has had on your teaching or your kids, and (3) originality
in your answer. Contestants must fill out an official
entry form at www.sayitright.org/contest.php.
The
contest ends Dec 31, 2009.
First
prize is $500, but a second prize of $100 will be awarded as
well as a prize of $50 for third place.More information and official entry form is available at www.sayitright.org/contest.pnp.
