Just yesterday, and not for the first time, mothers who are using the Method asked us these interesting questions. Here we give you a brief account of how psychomotor and language are present in the VICON Method and what is its importance in the Development of Language in children with communication difficulties.

Motor skills of course have a direct relationship with language. How? We find a multitude of aspects related to this process. Speech difficulties are always related to transversal and directly related cognitive factors that are often not taken into account.

1. Attention: having the ability to redirect our attention within learning will give us the ability to develop aspects such as joint attention, discrimination of other stimuli that are presented while it is developing, discrimination that can be both visual, auditory and even behavioral. Concentration , this process will not appear if we do not have good skill in the previous two, and it is strictly necessary to develop something as difficult as a consistent linguistic ability.
2. Emotion , how can emotion have to do with language, its mechanics, and its learning? At VICON Method we never forget emotion as a learning principle. All our emotional and sensory principles are in our “ BODY ”. The body and everything that has to do with the motor relationship, with our "container", our self-knowledge and self-awareness. The body is the instrument par excellence for the development of communication. It is our first object and it is our first objective . Connecting with this first object, so extremely complex and so highly functional, we have at our disposal the greatest learning tool, capacity and functionality that exists.
3. Imitation : We are not just talking about motor skill, but we are touching on the skill of motor imitation , which gives one more step to the difficulty, and the ability to make our actions like those of others. In a changing social world, often dizzying and competitive, it is necessary to be an active agent of this environment in order to not only survive it, but also make the most of it in our own environment.
4. Autonomy: Autonomy is an essential process and the ultimate goal of language . Here we play with two aspects, the first of which is purely 1/pedagogical : we look for a spontaneous, functional language that has the ability to develop on its own, that we do not have to teach everything but that acquires skills to be autonomous in all dimensions of the language that are of course based on more complex cognitive skills although they are more basic due to the difficulty they present in stimulating them. The other aspect is the ultimate goal of all this reflection, 2/autonomy , self-esteem and personal development, which is what gives us the presence of language, communication and, ultimately, socialization.

For this, the VICON Method presents a large battery of Videos to work on psychomotor skills from aspects such as… 1. Eye contact: The look 2. Signage 3. Object permanence (Motor search for the hidden object) 4. Functional Object Manipulation 5. Praxias (Blow, Mouth, Tongue…) 6. Coarse psychomotor skills (arms, head, foot, leg...) and fine motor skills (hands, plasticine...) 7. Bimodal language that cannot have any other basis than the pure motor imitation of communication signs throughout the entire Method.

And of course we cannot stop talking about our Cantajuegos : Music created with signed choreographies to mobilize everything sensory that accompanies communication as the first step for the development of language and for its subsequent complexity.

At VICON Method we are very clear about all these aspects and since the evolutionary development of language is present, we tend to develop skills as a principle for the social development of the person , and we intend to be a global method that pushes the person and not only their language as a mechanical system isolated from all cognitive, emotional, social factors.

Cristina Oroz Bajo