Selection from Articles
"Functional dysfunction is not created from nothing. Every suffering emanates from a blocked and blocking muscular area created by a certain event, by continuous neglect, or by a specific coordinative dysfunction, that can be examined and trained."
Status Magazine – Article by Moshe Elbaum
"The main difference between his system and others, [Moshe] explains, is in the approach to the source of the hardship. If most systems approach problems in reading as a matter that will be solved by practicing and teaching to read, the Elbaum system focuses on locating the bodily system that causes the problem and accordingly treats the problem with training techniques that will bring it to the level that allows for the reading process."
Zomet HaSharon Magazine
"Claims Moshe… Many children come here who have been diagnosed as dyslexic. Even to this day, I still don’t understand what professionals mean when they diagnose a child as dyslexic. I find that more than 90% of the children who come to me with this kind of diagnosis are children who have simple coordination problems. … If a child doesn’t read as well as he should, it is because there is no correct system of internal physical communication."
Parent and Children Magazine – written by Yael Chen
"…A child who does really well in kindergarten goes to the first grade and suddenly does not manage to copy from the blackboard. He begins to get frustrated and feels insecure. Then the teacher tells him to try harder and notifies the parents about the child’s behavior. The parents think the child is lazy. This magic circle goes on and on out of ignorance, and it happens at all socioeconomic levels. The adults in his life do not know the child cannot copy from the board or write fast enough or understand what he reads. They are technical problems of the body and have nothing to do with the psychological layout of the child. The connection to the latter is almost zero."
"From my point of view, learning difficulties are just side effects of a malfunction in some system of the body and my specialty is in tracing that system."
"…I see myself as a body mechanic or electrician that teaches the person how to fix the systems that are not working properly with training, awareness, and proper thinking."
"…The method relieves the child from the anxiety of not being normal. You tell him point blank where in the body the problems are caused and explain to him how to change it through training."
"Every person in the world is unique; there is no one like him. The catch is to know the needs of each person and fulfill them. There is no one treatment for all. You need to know, see, and understand what you see, and the result of the whole picture shows you how to work with that person."
"Balance through Body Awareness" New Age Magazine
"The principles underlying Elbaum’s method are to locate the motor/coordinative deficiency that is preventing the person from achieving his true potential, train it directly, and relax the accumulated bodily and emotional tensions that have resulted due to the deficiency … Elbaum claims that his techniques have been implemented successfully since 1987, within the framework of the institute, and have helped hundreds of children and adults. The Institute boasts a 75% success rate which shows itself within 3-7 months of training. The speed of correction depends on the age of the patient, the severity of the problem and the perseverance of the client in doing the exercises."
Education Section of “English Speaking Residents Association” – written by Sara Silber
"In the first college he opened in Israel…, Moshe built the basics of a system that eventually became the Elbaum Centers. It is hard to argue with success: 10,000 clients, most of them children, have been going to the different centers for the past 7 years and graduated with about 70% of successful cases. …Two schools in the center of the country adopted Elbaum’s ideas, among others, to lower the violence in the schools."
Zomet HaSharon Magazine
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