Smart Moves (Book)

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name = Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head
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author = Carla Hannaford
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country = Canada
language = English
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genre = Psychology
publisher = Great Ocean Publishers
release_date = 1995
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 237 p.
isbn = ISBN 0-915556-26-X (alk.paper) ISBN 0-915556-27-8 (pbk.:alk.paper)
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Smart Moves is a 1995 book by Carla Hannaford in which she looks at the body's role in thinking and learning. [cite book |title=Smart Memory |last=Podder |first=Tamushree |year=2004 |publisher=Pustak Mahal |isbn=9788122307597 |pages=p. 89 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A7sHCl0GQOYC&pg=PA89&dq=%22Smart+Moves%22+%2Bhannaford&num=100&sig=ACfU3U3gD-pBvrevngE_FpekpmRYd_uLdg |accessdate=2008-09-13] [cite book |title=Your Active Child |last=Pica |first=Rae |year=2003 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional |isbn=9780071405584 |pages=p. 82 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jVg0GK3enPsC&pg=PA82&dq=%22Smart+Moves%22+%2Bhannaford&num=100&sig=ACfU3U0Q2K7RcJYExNmzMU0h2i4uEBJ26A |accessdate=2008-09-13] She examines the body-mind-environment (stress) relationships, and how it affects child and adult's normal everyday lifes.

Carla Hannaford invents the term SOSOH (Stressed Out, Survival-Oriented Humans) for people having learning disabilities or attention difficulties. She argues that ADD, ADHD, and all other learning problems are related to stress, as stress produces survival-oriented behavior which inhibits learning.

Smart Moves puts forward approaches to help learning, some of them are:
* Dietary awareness, drink enough water, less sugar intake, etc
* Help the brain to perceive events less stressful by doing physical exercises
* Create a less stressful environment for people with learning difficulties

See also

* Brain Gym

References