Move to Learn is a network of parents, professionals and friends interested in or working in the field of learning difficulties ans developmental delay around the world. Below is a list of some of our contacts who have been trained and assessed in Barbara Pheloung’s methods and can give advice of support. Many contributed to the development of the Move To Learn Movement Program and worked alongside Barbara.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Veronica Steer BApp ScOT, RegOT, AccOT is a registered and accredited Occupational Therapist since 1975, with her own practice in the city of Adelaide, Veronica also holds a Diploma in Kinesiology and is trained in Rhythmic Movement, The Listening Program and Interactive Metronome.
She has been a Sound Therapist since 2000.
In her practice, where she worked with both children and adults, she used a combination of OT predominantly related to brain and body integration, Sound Therapy and LEAP Brain Integration Kinesiology.
With nearly 40 years experience working with children with multiple disabilities, developmental and learning difficulties and those within the autism spectrum, her work involves formal assessment and intervention. Sensory Integration has been her primary focus in order to improve the underlying central nervous system foundations for learning, coordination and behavioural organization.
Veronica was a founding Faculty Member of Sensory Integration Australia, training therapists in this field, and she has also been member of various OT Association committees and the OT Registration Board. She has been associated with Move to Learn since 2004, contributing several articles and being vitally involved with the development of the Move to Learn Movement Program.
Email: vsteer@bigpond.net.au

NSW, AUSTRALIA
Julia Dive has been a cornerstone in Move to Learn and has helped to develop the Ten Gems Movement Program and spearheaded our Ten Gems for Adults program.
Julia has worked closely with primary school children for over 30 years and was employed as a Teacher’s Aide Special from 1996 to 2008.
Director and founder of ‘Smart Brain/Smart Body’ in NSW, her centre offered assessment, tutoring, Irlen screening, sound therapy, Extra Lesson and Move to Learn, concentrating on the whole child and supporting the parents of the child.
A new passion has been introducing Move to Learn to senior’s communities where she has inspired many to get together and move for a better quality of life; keeping brains and bodies active while encouraging social connection.
Broulee, NSW
Phone: +61 2 4471 6854
Email: sbsbjulia@gmail.com

NSW, AUSTRALIA
Belinda Flynn, was trained and assessed as a Move to Learn Practitioner and is director of Kids in Tune, is based in Woolgoolga, NSW.
She is an experienced PDHPE teacher, an Imagination Gym consultant, and a certified provider of The Listening Program. She is also qualified in Brain Gym and has vast experience working in schools with High School children.
Belinda has created and implemented a daily movement program with small groups of High School students who have learning difficulties and/or behavior problems for over eight years. She had witnessed many and varied improvements with these children before introducing the Move To Learn program. Belinda was very impressed with the evident improvements the program brought once added to her repertoire and has since gone on to become a certified Move to Learn Practitioner.
Her High School Program is holistic in its approach including such things as dietary information (focusing on the effects of food additives), sensory activities, Brain Gym, Imagination Gym, yoga and other relaxation techniques, games and LISTENING (to students concerns and anxieties) as well as Move To Learn.Belinda is an experienced PDHPE teacher, a certified Move To Learn practitioner, Imagination Gym consultant, and a certified provider of The Listening Program She is also qualified to work with children with Brain Gym. She is currently completing her Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.Belinda is available to run workshops at staff development days and also parent and community workshops. For those who don’t have the confidence to implement the movement sequences themselves, Belinda is available to work individually or with small groups of children or adults.
Kids In Tune
PO Box 10
Woolgoolga. NSW 2456
Ph: 0422594536 or 0422594536
email: bflynn60@westnet.com.au

SOUTH EAST ASIA
Joyce Moi, was trained and assessed as a Move to Learn Practitioner and worked as the Move to Learn representative in Malaysia for many years. Joyce also runs a centre in Kuala Lumpur for kids and parents of kids who fall in between the intellectually challenged and academically gifted. With expertise in the Move to Learn program, Starjump, Kids Can Succeed, DIR FloorTime and Cogmed and QiGong Massage from QiGong Sensory Training Institute, she provides 1 on 1 parent coaching services for families who have children who seem normal but struggle with learning or or are behind in their development compared to kids their age, (English, Mandarin & Cantonese).
She will be presenting Move to Learn Training Seminars throughout the year .
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Joyce Moi
Edufirma Sdn Bhd replace with KYCH Services
20-1-4 Jalan 2/101C
Cheras Business Centre
Batu 5 Jalan Cheras
56100 Kuala Lumpur
Ph: (603) 8933 2978
Mobile: (6) 012 387 1120
Email:  knowyourchildtohelp@gmail.com

“Thank you for sharing MTL with us. We had a wonderful time in KL, and thank Joyce for her session, both as a educator and a parent about move to learn and her life experiences with her child and students. Looking forward, we are going to bring MTL into the daily curriculum for all our students!”
“It was absolutely worth coming to KL from Singapore on my day off!”
” Joyce, after attending the Move to Learn seminar in March this year, I now look at things from a different perspective. I realise that some of my students who are diagnosed with autism suffer from problems with their vestibular and proprioception. Since working with them on the Move to Learn exercises, I have found a great improvement in them.”
Felicia (Principal of Symphonia Child Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Winsome Richards is a long term Move to Learn friend and a dynamic presenter and teacher. She has headed up an extensive program introducing Move to Learn to Western Australia through Move to Learn in WA.
She became interested in movement programs in 1981 when she helped her own son’s learning difficulties and has since worked in schools with students from K to Year 8 and studied the “whole child approach” to learning, in particular the Move to Learn Program. She has used movement programs and developmentally challenging obstacle courses that incorporate early literacy and numeracy to help many children from Pre-School to High School.
Winsome heads up Move to Learn in WA with Wendy Pittendrigh, Laurel Butcher, Davina Fraser, Dorothy Stephen, Margaret Greville, Charmian Venn and Laurel Butcher. Together the group has successfully organized and conducted many “Move to Learn in W.A.” seminars and workshops. They have also presented twice at the Early Years In Education Society Spring Conference in Perth.
Since 2009 Margaret, Dot and Winsome have travelled and conducted professional development for a number of city and country schools throughout Western Australia.
“We know that early intervention is crucial to a child with learning difficulties. But why do we have to wait for the learning difficulty to be obvious before starting early intervention? I believe we can do something about it before it happens especially in those first two years of school! Let’s get all our schools in Australia Moving to Learn.”
Winsome and her team have recently developed a fabulous new resource for Move to Learn – Multi Learning Mats. Contact Winsome for more information on that. These mats are proving a popular resource for schools as they can help in set up and implementation of the Move to Learn program.
Move to Learn in WA
Perth, Australia
Phone: +61 8 9250 4285
Mobile 0448504285
Email: movetolearninwa@bigpond.com

NSW, AUSTRALIA
Evonne Bennell  has a varied practice at Warrawee & Five Dock, seeing a wide of clients from babies to seniors for developmental & learning support, personal growth or maintaining or regaining function after stroke etc. Evonne has a special interest in retained primitive reflexes and their impact on sensory processing, learning and living, drawing from numerous modalities to deliver individual of group programs for a variety of ages and ability groups.
In addition, to being trained and assessed as a Move to Learn Practitioner, Evonne is also a licensed Brain Gym® & Visioncircles™ Instructor, an Educational/Holistic Kinesiologist, Rhythmic Movement Training Instructor and Provider, craniosacral therapist and a Therapeutic Listening Program provider and currently, assisting little ones at GymbaROO Bondi.
In August 2011, Evonne was awarded an Outstanding Service award to BRAIN GYM® International.
She runs regular workshops offering Move to Learn, Brain Gym, Rhythmic Movement Training and sensory processing support in Sydney and in country NSW/QLD offering to support for teachers, parents and therapists from many modalities.

THE UNITED KINGDOM
Mary Mountstephen MA (SEN) is a learning and development specialist and the author of several books and many articles about how we can help children to learn effectively. She is the founder of KidsCanSucceed and works in the U.K. and internationally, providing workshops, training and 1:1 assessments.

POLAND
Dr Agnieszka Olechowska
The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education,
Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka is a teacher of early childhood education, a special education teacher-speech therapist and senior lecturer in the department of early education at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw, Poland.
She is also a visiting professor at Florida University, USA, a member of the Team Elementary Education Sciences at the Polish National Committee, head of copyright postgraduate Early Education and Preschool and author of several books in the field of special educational needs, scientific articles, guides for teachers, training programs, e-learning courses teachers and pedagogical diagnosis tools including: Support for Students with Special Needs. Tips for Teachers (APS 2001), Special Educational Needs and The Meeting of Theory and Practice (PWN 2016),.
She also translated Ten Gems for the Brain into Polish and has been instrumental in introducing Move to Learn into Polish schools.
more:
Read Agneiszka’s research: Move To Learn Programme In Polish Educational Practice

JAPAN
Cecil Burton is the director of The Cee Bee Center in Takarazuka city, Hyogo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. He was trained and assessed as a Move to Learn Practitioner and is the representative and distributor of Move to Learn products that have been translated into Japanese. Cecil has been teaching English and Mathematics in Japan to students, including those with LD, (Asperger syndrome, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, etc.), for over 15 years. He has a Diploma in Special Education from the U.K. and was instrumental in helping start up and run a private SEN school called TEAM GIFTED in 2008 in Fukuoka, Japan, working as a Consultant and Advisor on the project, including teaching and training of teachers as well as teaching English and Math to children with development disorders and learning disabilities. During that time he has had success in that 3 children attending Team Gifted went on to study abroad at schools in Europe, some of the other children attending Team Gifted who had stopped attending public or private schools returned to mainstream schools within 6-12 months and the rest of the children who were attending Team Gifted mainstream schools but were lagging behind due to behavioural problems and learning difficulties, developed appropriately so that they overcame their behavioural problems and learning difficulties and were no longer lagging behind in their class.