I just read where a twenty something female in China was having some balance issues (mild) and went in for check up. What they ended up finding was she did NOT have a CEREBELLUM! She had been living quite normally without it.
Now I was even astonished by the fact that her brain and CNS has compensated all that time for not having the cerebellum. It illustrates how from the outside no one knew she did not have one and that only on 'imaging' did they find this. Most of our kids function everyday compensating with their internal environment (that they are given) with some sort of maldevelopment. How can we trust the outside view to know exactly what is happening inside? I guess this is up to perception by others. Whom do we trust with this perception?
Those of us who have worked with children to improve health, cognition and behaviour believe the educational constraints for which we were trained in to be the identifying perceptual lens through which we assess the 'internal environments of children. The only fault in this that most often it is NOT Holistic enough. Meaning the brain, CNS and its entire sensory system need to be considered when observing behaviour. Developing a child through 'rote' skill only narrows the scope of this system and detrains that potential all of us desire. Rote skills are patches for a child to fit into a model we choose. To become become socially compliant, but does not enhance the use of their full system and increase adaptability of the system.
Think of the possibilities when this lady from China had a child and functioned everyday unknowing about her brain stem situation...
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