virtual autism treatment; sensory processing, ADHD

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Clinically proven online movement & sensory programs to improve development, learning, sensory processing, behavior, and attention & focus in children.

Brain Connex Therapy online primitive reflex & brain integrations program was created for children with developmental & neurological delays, autism, sensory processing disorder, ADHD, cerebral palsy, and more. Our foundational programs provide a combination of primitive reflex integration, neurodevelopmental movements, sensory stimulation, and brain hemispheric balance techniques to bring optimal results…all in the comfort of your home. We focus on accelerated outcomes and greater access to care for all families in need.

Brain Connex Therapy is designed to develop:

*Balance;

*Muscle tone, stamina, and controlled motor movements;

*Posture and control;

*Body and sensory awareness;

*Gross and fine motor movements;

*Self-control, persistence and organization;

*Language, rhythm and communication skills;

*Attention, listening and processing of sound;

*Self-esteem and confidence;

*Improved reading, writing, and learning ability.

Children who demonstrate delays and/or difficulties in the following areas can benefit from our program:

*Concentration/Attention/Memory

*Speech, Language

*Written Expression & Reading Comprehension

*Social Communication/skills

*Behavior

*Fine motor delays

*Gross motor delays

*Anxiety, Depression, Decreased self-worth

*Processing Speed

*Sensory Processing

“Our mission is to improve as many lives as possible while empowering clients with knowledge, and passionately learning from continued research in neurological movement to continuously improve treatment methods for optimal results.”

Results seen with Specific Conditions

Autism

ADHD

Sensory Processing

Dyslexia & Learning

Dyspraxia

Vision Issues

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Is your child stuck in a fight-or-flight zone? Sym

Is your child stuck in a fight-or-flight zone? Sympathetic tone is naturally higher in infancy. When a child has an immature brain, they will have tendency towards "sympathetic tone".

Staying in a fight-or-flight zone will cause more behaviors and emotional dysregulation.

Many children with trouble learning, or you have behaviors, have an immature brain stem, that never fully developed, leaving the cortical (thinking brain) to not fully develop either and not have top-down control over emotions and higher-level skills.

There are simple ways to help a child's brain mature through movement. Specific movements that re-create what helps the brain grow during infancy and toddlerhood. These movements, performed with frequency & intensity, will mature the brainstem and allow the cortical brain to have regulation of learning, behaviors, and processing sensory information properly.

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There is nothing abnormal about behaviors IF they

There is nothing abnormal about behaviors IF they occur at the appropriate time in brain development. There are basic positive and negative behaviors that all children go through stages of in development. When they get "stuck" in a stage OR have the behavior beyond the appropriate age is when there is a problem.
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For all children it is typical to see a fight for independence around the older 2/younger 3 year old age. Even behaviors such as hand flapping is typical of children at a certain developmental stage.
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When a child is "stuck" with a behavior that isn't appropriate for their age or their reaction to an environment is a concern. This will affect your child's relationships and social skills.
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How we can help is through a brain integrations approach that helps to strengthen the weaker brain hemisphere and create a better balance. Primitive reflex integration and sensory stimulation to the weaker hemisphere, followed by movements incorporating both sides of the body to stimulate both hemispheres in balance.
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We also want to look at the full picture. Behaviors are rarely a stand-alone occurrence. You'll want to encourage all areas of brain health including whole food nutrition, sleep, decreasing screen time, and outdoor/free play daily.
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Does your child have empathy towards others? Do th

Does your child have empathy towards others?
Do they understand social cues?
Do they understand and use non-verbal communication?

Interoception is the ability to feel what's going on, on the inside of our body (are we hungry, cold, tired, thirsty, etc)? It helps us understand how we feel. When we don't perceive interoception well, we don't feel our own body well, then we have difficulty interpreting what other people are feeling.

Interoception is primarily house in the RIGHT brain hemisphere. We see many children diagnosed with autism that lack empathy, have difficulty with social skills, and trouble understanding their bodily needs. Generally, children with autism have an imbalance in their brain, with a weakness in the right hemisphere.

This weakness leads to poor social skills, poor eye contact, lack of understanding non-verbal skills, lacking empathy, and the ability to "read" other people. If we can't understand our own emotions, we won't be able to understand what others are thinking or feeling.

The good news is there are ways to help. We can balance the brain using a hemispheric balance treatment approach. We create a strong neurological foundation with reflex integration coupled with sensory stimulation specific to the child's hemispheric weakness.
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Brain Connex Therapy offers a virtual GUIDED Primitive Reflex & Brain Integrations Program that helps to balance the brain and develop new connections needed for enhanced learning, sensory, and behavior.

Any deviation from all four's crawling can be a si

Any deviation from all four's crawling can be a sign of underdevelopment in the brain. The milestones have been "loosened" by pediatricians because so many children are delayed in their milestones now. It does not mean that it's okay. Your pediatrician will tell you "no big deal", but if your instincts tell you different, please reach out to a professional that understands.

Deviations can be delays in the time it took to crawl on all four's (even one month late can be an issue); or awkward crawling like dragging one leg behind.

All four's crawling is one of the first times we are working contra laterally -- moving the right arm and left leg, and vice versa. This helps to develop the corpus callosum, the super highway connector between our right and left hemispheres.

If your child is not crawling yet, or has an awkward crawl, or had these delays when they were younger, you can help re-connect those areas they missed in development. Simply practicing crawling the correct way and/or working through a cross-crawl pattern can help.

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If a child is clumsy, awkward, uncoordinated, or h

If a child is clumsy, awkward, uncoordinated, or have poor body awareness -- they do not feel their bodies well. When a child cannot feel and understand what their body is doing, they will not be able to understand emotions from others. This leads to kids that have difficulty in social situations and difficulty understanding non-verbal cues.

When we smile (for example) we get feedback from our muscles and start to feel happier. When we see someone else smile our motor neurons imitate the movement and smile too.

Funny enough, there is research showing that women who received BOTOX had less ability to tell how others were feeling. This is because their face was unable to mimic other people's! Interesting, right?!

Children with difficulty in social situations and understanding emotions often have poor proprioception and body awareness. To help treat this we must use proprioception with foundational brain development work such as primitive reflex integration and brain hemispheric balance.
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Check out our newly updated virtual program, Online Primitive Reflex & Brain Integrations Program here: http://www.brainconnextherapy.com/our-program/
#emotions #socialskills #bodyawareness #feelingemotions #nonverbalcommunication #nonverbal #proprioception #hemisphericintegration

One way to see if your child's right & left hemisp

We use the body to train the brain. Daily brain tr

We use the body to train the brain. Daily brain training using both sides of the body with purposeful movements helps increase connections between the right & left brain hemispheres.

Decreased connectivity in the corpus callosum (connects R&L hemsipheres) results in poor coordination, difficulty learning, poor body awareness/spatial awareness, poor balance, and more. It's been mostly misunderstood why a child's brain appears disconnected from their body. There are several reasons this could happen -- but it doesn't always matter how it happened -- we just need to focus on the fact that we can create change and improve the connections!

Having a strong connection between R&L hemispheres is so important for learning, reading, math, and all schoolwork & high-level executive functioning. For example, with simple reading from left to right, we need our eyes to focus and cross midline smoothly in order to read a page. The corpus callosum is the bridge that enables are brain to take information from the left hemisphere and store it in short-term memory in the right hemisphere.

It is evident we need strength in both right and left hemispheres for optimal learning. Research shows that information needs to be processed in both hemispheres in order for the process to be efficient.

Too many children are struggling with learning, coordination, social skills, and language that don't need to be. There are movement-based treatments that can easily be done at home to help!

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The pre-frontal cortex, or our cortical "thinking"

The pre-frontal cortex, or our cortical "thinking" brain, literally grows out of the motor cortex. When the motor system does not fully develop during infancy and childhood, our ability to learn, memorize, read, organize, pay attention, and self-regulate will be impaired.

Primitive reflexes are the foundation of the motor system. When they remain retained, even partially unintegrated, they will inhibit the ability of the cortical brain to fully develop, leaving your child with symptoms such as trouble reading, difficulty with learning, unable to sit still or pay attention, and poor emotional regulation.

The good news is we can "go back in time" and treat your child by re-connecting their brain through movement. Starting with primitive reflex integration using sensory stimulation and movement, followed by cerebellum-based activities and increasing demands on the nervous system to help kids struggle less, learn more, and develop to their full potential.

Very often I tell parents to look at the symptoms

Very often I tell parents to look at the symptoms of retained primitive reflexes instead of just testing. Testing is somewhat subjective depending on the evaluator, the ability of the child to follow directions, and how many repetitions they attempt each reflex. For many children with delays, this tends to be a hinderance, and we simply look at retained reflex symptoms and go from there.
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Common symptoms associated with the core reflexes include some of the following, although not limited to:
Moro Reflex
*frequent tantrums
*startles easily
*hypersensitive to noise, temperature, pain
*minimal eye contact
*irrational fears; emotional lability
*periods of hyperactivity followed by fatigue
*motion sickness
*fight or flight
*easily distracted
*has difficulty tuning out background noise
*difficulty with change; loves routine
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Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex
*eye tracking difficulties
*hasn’t chosen dominant hand after 3 years old
*reading trouble; dyslexia
*trouble crossing the midline
*poor behavioral control
*difficulty following multiple step directions
*low muscle tone
*poor balance
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Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex
*“W” leg position when floor sitting
*poor posture
*poor balance
*poor head and neck control - head may lean forward or to side
*toe walking
*difficulty catching a ball
*balance and coordination problems
*fatigues easily
*poor articulation
*problems with orientation in space
*low muscle tone; over-flexible joints
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Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex
*difficulty copying off blackboard
*slouched position when at a desk/table, or lying over the desk/table
*sits in a “W” position
*difficulty with binocular vision
*poor eye, hand coordination; difficulty with ball games
*tires quickly when reading
*complains of blurry text when reading
*muscle tension in legs or shoulders; tension headaches
*child supports head with hands
*skipped crawling, or had an altered pattern
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Landau Reflex
*low muscle tone in the back and neck
*disliked tummy time; dislikes being on belly
*poor attention and concentration
*difficulty with near vision; and three-dimensional vision
*poor posture
*possible hyperextension of knees
*tension in legs; may cause toe walking
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Research performed on 2,175 children, ages 3-22, w

Research performed on 2,175 children, ages 3-22, whom had been diagnosed with ADHD, proved that adding simple hemispheric-based training improved areas of cognitive, motor and sensory development.

Primitive reflexes are automatic movements that create the foundation of the brain and nervous system in infancy. If they do not fully mature, areas of development that come after infancy do not fully mature either. This leaves children with challenges in attention, focus, learning, behavior, and sensory-motor skills.

Integrating sensory-motor, cognitive, behavioral, and hemispheric-based training in simple-to-do movements and stimulation at home (and in a clinic) are a way to reduce the effects of developmental disorders and delays.

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Researchers have demonstrated over and over that c

Researchers have demonstrated over and over that children with learning difficulties, including ADHD and autism, have retained primitive reflexes that "hold them back" from fully developing body control and ability to use their pre-frontal cortex to the highest function.

The research evidenced that eight reflexes are commonly unintegrated, including Moro, Rooting, Sucking, Galant, ATNR, TLR, STNR, and Hands grasp. Without full integrated these children are "stuck" in a lower level of brain development being unable to develop new neural pathways & connections.
The retained reflexes demonstrate a delay in developmental growth that can contribute to hyperactivity, learning challenges, and other difficulties with gross & fine motor skills, emotional regulation, and sensory processing.

Primitive reflex integration should be the primary foundational treatment for children with any learning or developmental challenge. It can be done at home with few simple exercises, guided by a professional with expertise in the area. Once reflexes integrate and areas of the brain/body connection becomes "unstuck", new neural pathways develop enabling the child to benefit from traditional treatments and learning interventions.
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The prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in emo

The prefrontal cortex plays a critical role in emotional regulation, modulation, and reactivity.

Many parents come to me asking how they can help their child's emotional regulation. The answer lies in the brain 🧠

The prefrontal cortex will not have full control over emotions, as it should, without the brainstem and foundational nervous system development. The brainstem develops through motor movements of primitive reflexes and sensory stimulation.

The foundation must develop fully before the prefrontal cortex is able to have top-down control.

If your child has trouble with emotional regulation have your practitioner check if they have retained reflexes. Unintegrated reflexes are a sign that your child's brain stem is not fully developed. This means their "survival" brain is still having say in their day-to-day life...which helps explain children that can't control their emotions.
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DYSlexia DYScalculia DYSgraphia DYS.... What do a

DYSlexia
DYScalculia
DYSgraphia
DYS....

What do all of these "DYS-" conditions have in common?

Decreased communication between right and left brain hemispheres, and more specifically, having an imbalance between the hemispheres.

"A new study by researchers at UT Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity, Duke University, and the University of Michigan has found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the neural basis of human math abilities and suggest a possible route to aiding those who suffer from dyscalculia."

New treatments include specific engagement of the nerovus system starting from the bottom-up. Primitive reflex integration plus brain hemispheric balance can help improve the "DYS-" conditions by improving strength of communication between right and left hemispheres. Unfortunately the majority of treatments for children with these conditions start top-down -- looking to treat the symptom, rather than the root cause.

Find the root cause, treat it with simple home-based movements & stimulation, and see improvements in learning, reading, math, and all school-based activities.

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The brain 🧠 controls everything. When there is

The brain 🧠 controls everything.

When there is an imbalance between the brain hemispheres we see kids with incredible skills in one area, while significantly lacking in another.

A left hemisphere weakness, in particular, demonstrate typical symptoms related to conditions such as Dyslexia, learning disabilities and depression.

We work to strengthen the weaker hemisphere while building the foundations of the nervous system to balance all systems in the body.
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Without sensory input the brain can not perceive o

When a child has trouble with reading, typically t

When a child has trouble with reading, typically the first treatment is reading intervention. Struggling with reading is a symptom. When we start treatment for a symptom, we are using a top-down approach. An approach that works for management of symptoms and post-injury or surgery, but does not work when the origianl symptom is coming from a developmental or neurological issue.

Dyslexia and other reading troubles are developmental in nature. Having trouble reading is a symptom that we can use as a clue to understanding what is going on in the brain 🧠

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What is the definition of Autism? I'm sure if you

What is the definition of Autism?

I'm sure if you asked any practitioner, each would have their own response, and all of them would be different. OR they may have no response at all because they don't know.

A behavioral practitioner may say its a behavioral disorder.
A biomedical practitioner may say it's a disturbance in the gut.
A neurologist may say it's a combo of genetic and environmental factors.
A parent may say it's from specific toxins during development.

So all of the top practitioners and parents have different definitions of the disorder. And of course, every child diagnosed with ASD has individualized factors that contributed to their symptoms.

From a functional neurology standpoint, the issue is in the BRAIN.
* Disconnection between the two hemispheres;
* Disorganization in networks of the brain; and
* Underdevelopment of key areas of the brain

The brain controls everything....emotions, behavior, gut function, immune system, detoxification, learning, memory, and motor skills. When we focus treatment on improving connections in the brain and communication between hemispheres we are able to see incredible improvements. Improvements in behavior, learning, sensory processing, attention, focus, gut function, sleep, memory & more! And the changes are permanent, not temporary bandaids to symptoms.

Treatment from a functional neurology standpoint works to develop the brain from the bottom-up and inside-out. Each area of the brain is dependent on the prior areas development to function properly. For example, the Pre-frontal cortex will not fully develop if the motor cortex is not fully developed.

The brain can change at any age, any stage in life with the right stimulation. Sensory-motor movements that engage the weaker hemisphere and build connections to develop the cerebellum will create the most, lasting change for your child.

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A research study done in 2018 found that a signifi

A research study done in 2018 found that a significant number of healthy preschool children displayed retained primitive reflexes affecting their motor coordination and skills.
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The persistence of these reflexes may affect the child's motor skills, learning, attention & behavior unless they integrated with simple reflex exercises.
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Primitive reflexes lie in the brain stem which is comprised of the medulla, pons, and midbrain. The brain stem connects the spinal cord to the brain. It is necessary for our survival functions. The brainstem helps to send signals to control head and eye movement and functions such as postural control.
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Integrating primitive reflexes helps our brain move away from the survival brain and into the thinking brain, giving way to postural control so we can stand upright and higher-level learning skills needed for academics.
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