Published Peer-Reviewed Research
The following peer-reviewed papers and published studies are based on, or directly reference, the INPP Developmental Screening Test and School Intervention Programme. The research spans from 2005 to the present and has appeared in international journals of education, environmental health, and developmental science. Each entry links directly to the journal page or open-access version where available.
Papers marked INPP are authored or co-authored by Sally Goddard Blythe or an INPP Licentiate. Where a paper is open access, a free full-text link is provided. Where it sits behind a journal paywall, a link to the abstract is given instead.
Releasing educational potential through movement: A summary of individual studies using the INPP Test Battery and Developmental Exercise Programme for children with special needs.
Child Care in Practice, 11(4): 415–432.
Neuromotor maturity as an indicator of developmental readiness for education. Report on a Neuro-Motor Test Battery and Developmental Movement Programme in schools.
In: Kulesza EM (Ed). Movement, Vision, Hearing — The Basis of Learning. Wydawnictwo Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej, Warsaw.
School functioning of students with neuromotor immaturity.
International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies, 7(2): 40–46.
Assessing neuromotor readiness for learning.
In: Modern Methods of Prevention and Correction of Developmental Disorders in Children. Kogito-Center / Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. ISBN 978-5-89353-607-2.
Neuromotor readiness for school: The primitive reflex status of young children at the start and end of their first year at school in the United Kingdom.
Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education, 50(5): 654–667.
The correlation between residual primitive reflexes and clock reading difficulties in school-aged children: A pilot study.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3): 2322.
Are immature neuromotor skills significant factors in educational underachievement and special educational needs? Literature review on primitive reflexes as indicators and measures of neuromotor immaturity.
Szkoła Specjalna. Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology.
Effect of a psychoeducational intervention on motor and perceptual-visual development through the inhibition of primitive reflexes in schoolchildren aged 4 to 7 years old.
Revista Psicodidáctica, 28: 182–189.
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