Understanding Learning Difficulties Through a Psychomotor Approach

Learning difficulties can affect more than academic skills. For many children, challenges with movement, body awareness, coordination, attention, emotional regulation, and motor planning can influence how they engage, participate, and respond to learning demands at school.

This webinar explores learning difficulties through a Psychomotor Therapy approach, highlighting the important connection between the body, emotions, and learning. Parents and teachers will gain practical insights into how psychomotor foundations support children’s readiness to learn, confidence, and participation in both classroom and everyday routines.

Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Understand how movement, body awareness, coordination, attention, and emotional regulation contribute to a child’s learning and participation at school.

Recognise how psychomotor difficulties may present through challenges in handwriting, organisation, attention, motor planning, and classroom participation.

Discover practical psychomotor strategies that teachers and parents can use to support regulation, coordination, and readiness to learn at home and in the classroom.

About the Speaker:

Rita Bassil Kedemos is a Senior Psychomotor Therapist at The Developing Child Centre with over 20 years of clinical, academic, and leadership experience across Lebanon, France, and the UAE. She holds a French State Diploma in Psychomotricity from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris VI – La Sorbonne, along with advanced degrees in Psychomotricity from Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut.

Rita has worked across clinical, educational, psychiatric, and rehabilitation settings, supporting children and adults with developmental, sensory-motor, emotional, neurological, and learning-related needs. Her expertise includes early intervention, learning difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, emotional regulation, body awareness, motor planning, and psychomotor assessment and intervention.

In addition to her clinical work, Rita has held academic and leadership roles, including serving as a university lecturer, internship coordinator, clinical supervisor, and Director of a Medical Psychopedagogical NGO. At TDCC, she works within a multidisciplinary team to provide holistic, child-centered support that strengthens movement, regulation, confidence, participation, and overall well-being.

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