Nina Gallwey, a remedial education teacher at Siskiyou School in Ashland, Oregon, offers this dramatic example of greater sensory maturity and coherence. Before participating in a movement program, the 8½-year-old student who drew these pictures struggled with selective mutism. With regular rhythmic movement, this student’s strides amazed her speech therapist: she now reads aloud in class and joined her school’s Drama Club! Read more here.

Thank you to Nina Gallwey, a remedial education teacher.