A retained BP has a profound impact on how a child communicates, handles pressure at home and in the classroom, and most notably develops oral fixations, like eating 10 pencils during the course of a day.
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Protective reflexes kick in when you fall down and your arm reaches out to break your fall. This is the hands supporting reflex at work on your behalf without you thinking about it. In a more dramatic situation, say, you fall over-board and you need to pull yourself back into the boat or hold onto a rope for dear life that your friend has thrown you. You would need to have developed hands pulling and hands grasping protective reflexes for this situation to work out in your favor.
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I took a break from some of my In-Tuned® endeavors to gain perspective. The conclusion I come to is this. Parents cannot take on a “therapist’s” role with their child with a brain-based disorder. We need parents to be the wonderful nurturers they are.
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Abnormal processing of sensory information between the inner ear, the spinal cord and the stretch receptors in the muscles and supporting ligaments of bones and skin throughout the body is one common cause. This sense, called proprioception, provides awareness of relationships between our different body parts and gives our muscles functional tone.
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Children with brain-based disorder often have ocular motor or visual system abnormalities leading to poor visual attention, lack of ability to track objects across the midline easily, make fine adjustments of the eyes required to scan during reading and line up columns of numbers in math.
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Children with brain-based disorders consistently have core and postural muscle weakness compromising their quality, speed and accuracy of movement, as well as balance, and muscle tone. Difficulties with core and postural muscles are seen in a child’s inability to hold developmentally appropriate positions (poses) even with help.
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The act of cursive writing requires changes in touch, pressure, and hand position that are unique to every letter, giving the formation of words flexibility and novelty not found in the sameness of pressing a button on a keyboard.
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Yes and yes.Survey results of my recent workshops in eastern Canada, proved there are many interested in educating others about brain-based disorders, and what can be done if a child has a diagnosis.
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A child who has difficulty crossing the vertical midline, the invisible line creating a right and left side down the very center, and or the horizontal midline, roughly the waist line separating the top and bottom half typically has one brain hemisphere more engaged than the other.
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Children with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) can be referred for any number of treatments depending on what is supported by the local medical community from play therapy, neuro-feedback, ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis), Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy, etc., and for the child with Sensory Processing Disorder it is much the same.
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