Early Years Impact Brains, Bodies and Barefooted Brilliance - Charlotte Davies
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May 18, 2025 
Charlotte Davies, founder of the Fit to Learn social enterprise and expert in children's development, explores intriguing concepts like the importance of sound processing and motor-sensory integration. She emphasizes how motor skills support emotional regulation and cognitive function. With practical strategies for parents and educators, she discusses the significance of nasal breathing, primitive reflexes, and the benefits of barefoot play for child development. Charlotte advocates for early intervention, urging a slow-and-steady approach to foundational skills and holistic learning.
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Personal Journey That Sparked Fit to Learn
- Charlotte Davies describes how her son's vision patching and rehabilitation revealed wider developmental links between eyes, motor skills and sound processing.
- Reopening those pathways let him learn normally and drove her to create Fit to Learn to help other children.
Senses Must Integrate For Deep Reading
- Sensory integration of vision, sound and motor skills develops between about four and eight years and underpins higher-level reading and imagination.
- Without this integration children read without visualization and rely on coping strategies rather than deep comprehension.
Run Primitive Reflex Programmes Early
- Do run a PE programme that checks and integrates primitive reflexes, twice between reception and year two.
- Ensure core strength and midline-crossing so vision, motor and cranial function develop correctly.