The clinical conception of psychosomatognosic education is based on certain essential elements: (1) Working with a group of 4 or 5 children of the same age who have various symptomatologies (e.g., dysfunction, reasoning or language problems, school refusal or failure, hyperkinesia) for 3-6 months for 2 hours weekly; (2) always having the same 2 therapists, with basic training in physiotherapy, present at each session for each group and throughout treatment; (3) performing full body massage, allowing the child, through tactile sensations of feeling and touching, to become aware of the boundaries of his body and establish his body diagram; and (4) encouraging the child to want to take care of himself, to grow up, to be responsible, and to work well.

The conscious activity and ceaselessly renewed richness of the somatognosic information will ultimately lead to a better use of memory, reasoning, and language. This is the result of immersion in movement, which comprises all of the intentional, orderly, structured exercises, at body level, integrated in space and time, as well as immersion in communication, through words, the voice,

silences, facial expressions, looks, and gestures. The child learns to assimilate all of these new data and so become a person. This somatognosic learning also leads to significant improvement in school performance. It is through integration, and taking into account the maturation of the brain, that each child, by active participation, may develop into a full-fledged person. (Original in French)