Found an interesting article on sensory integration

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22 Aug 2010, 7:48 pm

For me personally, It helps keep my eyes shut while jumping rope. Otherwise I wind up tripping all over the jump rope after three tries


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22 Aug 2010, 8:05 pm

Yes, a jump rope activity engages gross and fine motor control and how one coordinates the left and right sides of the body as a smooth unit.

http://www.balametrics.com/
http://www.infinitywalk.org/

http://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/

http://www.out-of-sync-child.com/

http://www.hemihelp.org.uk/

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Left hemisphere
Corpus callosum
Right hemisphere
Cerebellum

and so on.