Reflex Integration, Sensory Processing & Motor Skills

Mental flexibility and adaptability begin at the foundational level. This is needed in order to function independently with navigating their world, learning, paying attention, and fitting in socially. Those with motor planning, motor coordination, and sensory processing deficits may be inflexible mentally and physically. They may be anxious and disrupt transitions or changes in their routine. There is often resistance to non-preferred tasks, yet they can hyperfocus for hours on preferred tasks. This is because they likely do not have the physical and mental flexibility, or feelings of security and predictability to try something in an unexpected way. By maturing their nervous system through reflex integration, developmental movements, and sensory stimulation; they will build the necessary neurodevelopmental connections that result in improved brain-body connection, self-awareness, self-regulation, attention and behavior, and mental flexibility and adaptability so that they can perform at higher levels

MOTOR SKILLS AND/OR SENSORY PROCESSING PROBLEMS

• Easily overwhelmed
• Poor motor-planning
  
• Poor/low self-esteem
  
• Poor posture (how it could look: tired, lazy, or not caring)
  
• Uncoordinated or awkward in movements
  
• Had delayed motor development
  
• Poor mental flexibility
  
• Weak fine motor skills for writing, buttoning,
• Graphomotor (fine motor writing)
  
• Works excessively hard, or fatigues quickly
  
• A bright child who is underachieving
  
• Poor attention
  
• Hypersensitive or hyposensitive to physical touch, light, sounds, textures, or movement
  
• Disorganized in their life (as well as their body); poor sequencing
  
• Poor sense of rhythm and timing
  
• Anxiety (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn response)
  
• Extraneous physical movements; fidgety
  
• Difficulty following motor sequences
  
• Difficulty transitioning (from one activity or location to another)
  
• Primitive and postural reflexes are not properly integrated
  
• Developmental Coordination Disorder or Dyspraxia 

What Our Motor Skills Program & Sensory Integration Program Does

• Increases attention and concentration
  
• Builds body awareness and control
  
• Improves perception of sensory input
  
• Develops visual skills (visual processing)
  
• Integrates primitive and postural reflexes
  
• Builds internal organization needed for learning, attention, self-control, executive function, and communication
  
• Stimulates the vestibular system which supports balance, movement, coordination, and auditory and visual processing
  
• Matures the nervous system by building neurological connections that should have occurred early in development but did not fully develop