FundaMental™ Tactile Learning

Working with your hands without support from sight activates important thinking skills!

Many children and adolescents need to strengthen these thinking skills!

FundaMental™ Tactile Learning (FTL) is a cognitive training program and a specialized set of Materials that targets the development of children’s fundamental cognitive skills, including their ability to investigate, analyze and find solutions to problems. The method is based on guided exploration and problem solving through the use of the tactile sense. FundaMental provides a way to overcome fundamental learning issues and developmental problems and is also a powerful tool for strengthening thinking and learning in general.

By moving the exploration of objects from vision – which is fast but often sloppy and unsystematic – to tactile examination, a slower, more thorough and systematic examination is achieved. This approach enables the trainer to see the strategies or lack thereof that the child is using.

FTL is based on the specific ways in which the brain processes tactile sensations, and this opens up dedicated training of cognitive skills and processes. At the same time, FTL draws on the advantage of the trainer being able to directly “see” and identify key characteristics of the child’s cognitive functioning, skills and challenges by observing the hands-on exploration and manipulation of tactile objects.

What to use FTL for

Training of Children & Adolescents with Learning Problems

The method is designed to train, rehabilitate and prevent cognitive learning issues

Strengthening Children's General Learning

The method has shown great potential to strengthen thinking, development and learning for ordinary children without identified learning difficulties

Assessment of Cognitive Processes and Skills

By observing the hands working with tactile materials, central processes and aspects of cognition and problem solving become directly observable

Strengthening Interactive Qualities That Develops Cognition

Both the need for training and the impact of the professional guidance become clear, thereby developing the ability to effectively facilitate learning and cognitive development

What others say about FundaMental™

About the Course

"What a great course and material you have developed. Extremely helpful to have available for training basic learning prerequisites and skills"

Professional cognitive trainer and teacher in child psychiatry

"A course with competent and committed trainers that have developed new and groundbreaking materials."

Home-schooling parent

"Fantastic and inspiring course - my fingers have become my "second" eye - I see much more now." I'm looking forward to getting to work in depth with the tactile approach - no doubt it has great potential for developing cognitive skills"

Parent home training and home schooling

"The tactile way provides a fantastic extension of my ability to uncover the child's challenges and potentials. Really hope this course will be widely known - for the benefit and development of children and young people"

Psychologist

About the Material

"I remember the feeling when I was thinking: "Finally!" when I saw the material. I could see the huge potential in it, because I really have needed something that worked with these kids, there is a gap that FundaMental™ covers."

founder, owner and trainer of a cognitive training company

"Your material is super elaborated and it would be a gift to be able to grab in cognitive training."

Self-employed cognitive trainer

"They get so many success experiences. I think the material can do that, it builds up self-esteem. It's so easy to enhance self-esteem, because you can adjust the difficulty of the tasks, lowering and increasing tasks to fit the child."

parent to a child with challenges and trainer of children with learning difficulties

"You can give the child a completely different levels of cognitive tasks, when it's in a tactile modality, inside the box, because they see it as a game. It's like some of the feels-like-school is disappearing."

special needs teacher and parent of child with learning difficulties

About the Method

"It slows things down. Those boys who are so fast and sloppy. They have to slow down by working tactile."

special educator, special school

"One of the aha experiences for the children are, to find out how important it is to have concepts and words and use them as thining tools"

speech and language therapist

"You can almost feel what's going on inside the child. And the child becomes aware of its own reflection."

founder, owner and trainer of cognitive training company

"I don't feel that I can get the child that calm and focused without the tactile approach. With the tactile materials I can make them work slowly. I also think it's easier to enhance their strategic thinking. The learning becomes deeper - it gets more embodied and solid."

cognitive trainer

"They use good strategies when working in the box. With the vision their attention is too fragile and drifting. They are more persistent when working in the box. They use some strategies that they don't use otherwise."

consultant for special school