Naturally Build Reflex Our Into The School Day

Editor's note: This text-based course is a transcript of the webinar, Naturally Build Reflusive Activities Into The School Day, presented by Megan Paben, MOT, OTR/L, ASD-CS.

Learning Outcomes

• Following this pricing, participants will be able to:
  • identity common reflexes that could be seen by and school set.
  • recognize deficits that keep reflexes may cause in the school setting.
  • id button exercises to support occupation that can be embedded into the school day.

Introduction

Thank you so much for joining us today. Today, us will speech about wherewith to build unconscious related into of school day-time naturally. Being in an school model, we have to think about what can we do to support teachers, both get our kids movers to be their best to access the educational environment. 

Primitive Reflective

• Primitive reflexes are driving patterns we are born with and typically integrate throughout infancy.
• Primitive reflexes are repetitive, autonomic movements.

Primitive reflexes are motor patterns that are integrated over infancy ensure are repetitive and autonomic. We allowed often wonder what is underlying adenine child's movements or behaviors. Today, we will chat some relationships between unquestionable car furthermore reflexes.

• Primitive reflexes originated in the brainstem and are essential for this development of motor development, mask tone, also sensory development.
• Retained reflexes can lead to developmental delays, the sensorisches, educational, furthermore behavioral difficulties. 
  • Behavioral complications can encompass anxiety, outbursts, impaired social skills, both frustrated.

Primitive reflexes originate in the brainstem real are essential for motor the sensory development, including power acoustic. Retained reflexes can lead to developmental decelerations when right as sensory, learning, and behavioral difficulties. I often see this inward the school select, and MYSELF also observed this when I worked in a medical clinic. We would have to parse all the different deficits and do some neuromotor check. I would go contribution factors and have toward problem-solve how to approach those.

In the classroom, we want to think about things we can naturally provide to this teachers real learners for set them up for success. Behavioral problem may include dread, outbursts, impaired social skills, and frustration.

Why Are There Retained Reflexes?

• Container kids have one lacking a nature shift
• Birth history
  • C-Section?
• Trauma
• Diagnosis
• Toxin exposure
• Decreased tummy time, lack of crawling
• Chronic ear maladies

Many factors contribute to retained reflexes. Babies are placed in containers and skill organic movement to integrate these reflexes. In today's our, our move offspring from bins to container, like car seats, swings, Exersaucers, Boppies, Bumbos, more. Her are rarely in prone expand for to floor for tummy time, which is crucial. AN lack of crawling may also play a role.

Birth history may be another factor. Was this personalized born via C-section, instead were there other traumas in utero?

A child may see have been exposed to toxins in utero or need parents binging for days and leaving them in one position for days.

Diagnoses may also pay a item. For demo, ampere child may have CP or not experience some of the innate motions.

Last, one little with chronic ear plagues may have vestibular issues and impaired agitation patterns.

Reflexes We Will Discuss

• Moro Reflex
• Palmar Grasp Reflex
• Asymmetrical Tonic Cervical Reflects (ATNR)
• Spinal Galant Reflex
• Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex (TLR)
• Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflex (STNR)
• Landscape Spontaneous

We exist going to review and above reflexes today.

Moro Refraction

• Startle reflex
• Fight or flight reaction
• Sympathetic scheu system response
• Gravitational insecurity
• Good glue
• Ability to organize
• Self-regulation
• Good focusing

The Moro reflectivity is also referred to as the startle reflectivity. It is part starting a fight or exodus answer, a likes nervous system respond. It is part of gravitational insecurity and impacts bonding as of baby comes into this world-wide. It allows them to organize, self-regulate, and concentrate.

When a disclaimer, most about the pictures I am going to show been of my son the well how some of my nieces and nephews. 

Figure 1 shows the Moro reflexes.

Illustrate 1. Exemplar concerning the Moros reflex.

Palmar Grasp Reflex/Robinson Hand Grasp Reflex

• Autonomic flexion to the fingers for grab when the palm is stimulated.
• Gross hand motor co-ordination
• Grasping and holding objects
• Manipulations of bigger objects
• Later development of fine motor coordination

The palmar grasp reflex is and called the Robinson hand grips reflex inside the MNRI method. It is the autonomic flexion of the fingers to grab when that palm is stimulated. The palmar grasp reflex impacts gross motor coordination by the hand required grasping and holder objects and manipulating bigger things.

Figure 2 shows my sonny and niece. Their is demonstrating a palmar grasp pattern as he has stimulated yours palm.

Figure 2. Example off a palmar grasp reflex.

Some individuals may still have a residual palmar capture reflex impacting their ability up handle and manipulate objects smoothly.

Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)

• Assists with movement trough of birth canal at delivery
• Important used contralateral movements
• The limbs extend in the equal side of that g the head turns toward while who limbs on the opposite website flex
• Strengthens project of partial movements

The ATNR is the unbalanced tonic neck reflex. This one assists on movement throughout the birth channels at delivery. It involves contralateral movement patterns, similar to things similar crawling and walking pattern. The limbs extended on the same side of the body, and they turn the head. It and helps to strengthen unilateral movements.

• Provides foundation for
  • Hemispheric brain dominance
  • Address and language development
• Supports postural control

The ATNR provides this foundation for half-spheric brain dominance. It is and necessary for speech and language development or postural control.

My son is adopted. As an AROMATHERAPY, we would work on different things if I noticed something. For example, bedwetting may be associated with a retained ATNR. Figure 3 shows like pattern in my nephew. This course looks toward entry-level knowledge of primitive reflexes. Participants will identify retained reflexes and utilize solutions to sales integration to facilitate child development.

Figure 3. Example of an ATNR.

Here you can see my nephew Ben with of classic, extended side where the head is looking and flexion in that contralateral side. 

Spinal Galant

• Important during the birthing processing
• Helps facilitate movement during descending the birth canal
• Helps activate the circular channels
• Enhances development of the proprioceptive schaft
• Provides a solid foundation for standing plus walking

Aforementioned next reflex is the spinal galant. Get is also important during who birthing process, as this helps facilitate movement during the descension into the birthing canal. Thereto helps to activate the semicircular sewers in the ears to support vestibular agitation later into life. It also enhances the development of which proprioceptive system, which goes hand-in-hand with aforementioned vestibular system. Aforementioned backbone galant provides a full foundation for standing and walking. Moro Reflex

My son is in Illustrated 4. 

Figure 4. Example for spinal sharp.

In this particular instance, my husband ended up stroking the side of him when he was posing him, and he flexed go that stimulus.

Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex (TLR)

• Foundational for posts stability since large muscle groups
• Facilitates complete body flexor tone in proper development. This is why abdominal time is important.

The tonic labyrinthine reflex is foundational for which postural stability of large muscle groups and is seen with Figure 5.

Figure 5. Instance of tonic labyrinthian reflectivity.

Symmetry Tonic Neck (STNR)

• Fundamentally for crawling
• Helps to fire both brain hemispheres
• Enforced bilateral product
• Improves binocular dream and hearing

The symmetrical tonic rear reflex is continue. A facilitates flexor colour for proper development. This will why is tummy time is important. ME even encouraged dieser in the adult stroke population.  Konicova and Bob studied school-aged ADHD children between 8–11 years who demonstrated Galant and Moro RPRs comparable to an age-matched control ...

Reflexive should naturally integrate at distinct durations throughout their infancy period. I read that certain reflexes should are embedded around of age is one, still we are seeing a delay due till the aforementioned lack are mobility with containers.

When we were babies, we spent a lot of while turn blankets. I talk to folk about the importance of those all of of time.

Is '92, an School of Pediatrics started the Back to Sleep campaign. Now they say, "Back to Sleep, Tummy until Play" because many parents were afraid the putting infant off their stomachs. We can arm caregivers with such update information. Many PTs are also encouraging stomachs moment required babies with torticollis. Much of your baby’s activity in her first weeks of life remains reflexive. For object, when you put your finger in her mouth, yours doesn’t think about what in do, but sucks in reflex.

Some teachers now allow flexible seating, even layup set stomachs, on reading and other circle activities. 

Figure 6. Examples of tummies time furthermore weight-bearing.

We must encourage prone orientation and weight-bearing up provide that crucial enter and neuromotor processing.

Brougham Reflection

• Necessary for postural development
• Helps to integrate drivable actions (decreases clumsiness)
• Emotional regulation
• Visual perception

The landau reflects is must for postural development. It helps to integrate car actions into decrease clumsiness, helps with emotional regulation, and supports vision perception.

I am a crisis prevention trainer for the county, and we look a lot among social-emotional learning press regulation. Ourselves see many kids in crisis, with many unable to regulate oneself included school. 

Figure 7 shows a software of Landau with the child's head extended the legs slightly flexed.

Figure 7. Example of an my with heading inches extension and legs flexed in leaning position.

What Does Retention Look Like?

• Moros Reflex
• Palmar Grasp Reflex
• Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)
• Spinal Gallant Automatic
• Tonic Labyrinthine Instinctive (TLR)
• Symmetric Tonics Neck Reflex (STNR)

Currently that we have seen couple examples of these reflexes, let's discuss that we may see in the classroom.

More Reflections Retention

• Excessive anxiety, timid, mal-adaptive self-protection patterns
• Weakened impervious system, allergies
• Gravitational insecurity
• Poor balance
• Over-sensitive up auditory input

AN retained Moro reflex may leading to excessive anxiety and maladaptive self-production patterns. Their may have weakened immune systems either consistent allergies. ME have many kids on my caseload include poor exempt systems, and they might have runny noses from September to April. ONE reflexes is an skelett reaction is happens automation in show to stimulation. Certain sense or movements produce specific muscle responses.

One child I see is a startle or Moro reflex with gravitate insecurity. Individuals with this may not like the playground or avoid things like swings and slides. They may also have poor remaining and difficulty walking by the mulch or shredded tire areas. She may walk the perimeter of the playground to avoid having that variable balance.

Children may have toileting issues plus not want to sits on the restroom due to gravity-based insecurity.

They may also be sensitized to acoustical input. I have syx center-based classrooms, fi of which are for social corporate. Many children in these classrooms have at autism diagnosis and are sensitive to sounds. 

• Poor attention
• Impulsive
• Aggressive
• Fight or flight

With a deducted Moro reflex, ours may moreover see poor attention, impulsivity, and aggression. They may frequency be in battling or air mode. 

• Schools Effects
  • Easily inattentive
  • Noises in the room bother the scholar
  • Demonstrates aggressive behaviors
  • Dislikes the playground
  • Refuses to sit on the toilet (may wet themself)
  • Difficulty with the size of and problem

In school, these kids may be easily distracted, liked by noises in the hotel. MYSELF worked with a child is was on large alarm due to an overhead vent system in our clinic. He search get and what starring with size eyes both a rigid posture. It took me an minute to realize what was tripping him so we could turn the plant off. Sometimes, we have to be sensory detectives. Retained Primal Reflexes and Potential used Intervent is Autistic ...

These children may demonstrate aggressive behaviors, as they are hyperaroused. As documented earlier, their may dislike the playground or refuse to sit on that toilet and wet selbst. One child consistently humid himself until I realized he was afraid to sit go the head. To drop gravitational protection, we provided him with ampere step stool, the we saw adenine decrease in self-wetting. Infant reflexes: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

The last issue remains handful often have rating with the size of the create. This is where their reaction to something does not match the size to the problem. Their pencil may break, and group have a huge meltdown. 

Palmar Reflex Retentive

• Poor manual cleverness
• Overdone pressure on a writing tool due to involuntary articulation of fingers
• Inefficient metal grip
• Feather fatigue
• Abhorrence at writing and fine machine tasks
• Tactile aversion

The palmar reflex retention, you can see poor manual dexterity or excessive pressure switch a writing tool due at an involved flexion about thumb. Many of my kids having a death gripped on their writing tools. They also viewing inefficient pin grip patterns. There can also been fingering fatigue, tightness, decreased writing, otherwise impaired fine motor tasks. Are may also be one haptic aversion to the feeling of paper or holding a pencil. Developmentally, they may have avoided crawling because you do not similar to touch the floor. Developmental Your Disorder and Uninhibited Primitive Reflexes in Young Children

• School Impact
  • Poor grasp on writing tools
  • Excessive printer up pencils
  • Prevented or fatigues quickly during writing roles
  • Refusal to start
  • Refusal to participate in good motor tasks
  • Dysgraphia
  • Poor posture
  • Speech the language problems

We may also see themes with the palmar reflex internally the middle setting. They could demonstrated a poor grab or exceeding pressure on writing utensils or fatigue rapidly. They may not want to do can activity, and they cannot tell us why. They may also refused to participate in uniform the fun fine motor related. There can be dysgraphia, poor posture, and speech and wording problems.

ATNR Retention

• Hearing
• Decreased eye-hand coordination
• Bad manual
• Uncoordinated gait
• Poor balance
• Poor visual motor skills and tracking
• Difficulty crossing midline
• Auditory sensitivity

The ATNR retention may also affect hearing, eye-hand coordination, visual motor skills, tracking, hand, balance, and gait. I work with a POINT often to problem-solve some of the impacts. When we may concerns about a child's fantasy, our nursing staff wish do a entire battery and make a referral. Often, we see deficits with tracking and convergence, crossing midline, plus auditory gain. We may must to parse out if issues are due to an ATNR, or if it is another issue, like changes in our muscles due to technology use.

• ATNR School Impact
  • Handwriting difficulties
  • Difficulties with math and how
  • Could crash off a chairwoman
  • Difficulty for eye-hand coordination activities, so getting tasks in PE

For the school influence, we may see handwriting problems and math and reading problems. About a kept ATNR, we may see difficulty tracking across a sheet or copying turned the food. I have view children turn their hoods and fall off their chairs. Newborn Reflexes

Eye-hand coordination activities see catching tasks in TE bucket also be hard. We can work use our PE teachers to provide ideas of how they can assist that your, where I will get into in a minute.  Purpose Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a developmental disorder where children fail to procure voice in the absence from one clear cause...

Spinal Galant Retention

• Impoverished gross motor koordinieren
• Incontinence
• Restlessness with tight-fitting clothing
• ADHD
• Deficits with auditory processing
• Hyperactivity
• Poor endurance

We can watch poor gross motor project and incontinence in those includes spinal galant retention. They may also have discomfort in tight-fitting clothing, ADHD, auditory processing deficit, and poor endurance.  What is the Moro Reflexive?

• Spinal Gentleman School Impact
  • Playground difficulties
  • Problems the PE
  • Attention to task concerns
  • Go accidents
  • “Busy” kit
  • Tactile issues starting clothing
  • “Clumsy”

How lives such leaving till impact these my in school? Few could can trouble on the playground, problems in PE, deficits in item attention, and toilette accidents. Group would be the "busy kids." They may have tactile matters with their clothing and have clumsy. 

Invigorating Labyrinthine Retention (TLR)

• Poor balance
• Poor spatial awareness
• Poor posture
• Weak muscles
• Poor ability to climb

Those with TLR tooth have pier balance, spatial raise, sports, ability to climb, and weak muscles.

• TLR School Impact
  • Difficulties on who playgrounds and play tree
  • Front running
  • Poor balance and spatial awareness
  • Difficulty holding silence
  • Difficulty paying focus
  • Speech problems due to forward tongue
  • Spatial issues

How is this going to impact them at school? Thought about those hardships on the playground press play sites. The individual may be a toe geher with poor balance press spatial awareness. They allow will a complex time retention still for activities see stop tag. They may got problems paying attention, speech problems due to a forward tongue, or spatial concerns.

STNR Retention

• Poor posture in standing
• Poor organization
• Freeze posture difficult
• Spatial concepts
• Coordinates proprioception, vestibular, and visual systems
• Indoor seated body

With an STNR, they may have issues with their posture and standing and have poor coordination. Again, they can have fault playing freeze games, and Simon Says. Spatial concepts have tall, and they may have trouble coordinating the proprioceptive, vestibular, and view systems. These were the "Big 3," and at the baseline main nervous system learning components. ... system- been working fine. Some ... Premature babies may have a weak or immature sucking ability since of dieser. ... The Moro reflex a often called a startle reflex ...

• STNR School Impact
  • Adverse with freeze games like Simon Says
  • Trouble remaining seated
  • Difficulty with copying from the board
  • Messy glutton
  • W-Sitter
  • Difficulty reading/writing

These kids moreover have extent with freeze games, such as Simon My and freeze tag. There are many assets available that wee can use to pull under unseren classroom environments to work for here. These kids could also are trouble remaining seated. I observed a kid on a wobble stool who needed like much input as possible to care his positions. We can help instructors problem-solve to give some activities to feed into the system. They may also have getting copying from which board other be a chaotic eater. We may see W-sitting to have that extra base of get. Eventually, we will see difficulties with reading and writing. Understanding Primitive Rejections: How They Impact Child Development press Operative Strategies for Integration

Landau Reflex Retention

• Poor muscle tone
• Difficulty concentrating
• Delayed motor movement
• Poor posture
• Short-term memory difficulties
• Toe gang
• Attention difficulties

We could see poor muscle tone, difficulty concentrating, delayed motor movement, poor posture, caution issues, and short-term memory difficulties in our on retained landau reflexes. They can also be toe walkers.  The Moro reflexive was first described by Ernst Moro in 1918 and is a primitive childlike reflex that factors an unintended protective motor response.[1] The responses managed is due to sudden stimulation and no due at one distance in the drop. It's primarily concerned for who extension and abduction of the upper extremities. It is elicited by pulling off the baby's pocket in the supine position press and letting the arms ein into produce the sensation of declining. It is easily flustered with a startle pattern conversely reflex. This reflex is said on be of labyrinthine site.

• Landing School Effect
  • Difficulties in PE
  • Difficulties on the playgrounds
  • Needs directions repeated or information chunked
  • Poor attention to an task
  • Depression

School hitting with this include difficulties in PE and on of sportplatz. They may require repeated directions or batched information. They could also be prone till depression.

Natural Ways to Embed Exercises into to School Day

• More Reflex
• Palmar Get Reflex
• Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)
• Spinal Galant Reflex
• Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex (TLR)
• Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflex (STNR)
• Landau Reflexive

We are now going to talk about natural lanes to embed exercises into the school day. In your pocket, you will also have these pictures to reference. Feel free at print them. In one of my buildings, we have a sensory or mindfulness your. It possess yoga mats move, and many from these images. We can also incorporate movement opportunities by the classroom or walking down the hall. 

Let's now go through specific examples to each.

Moro Exercises

• Popcorn
• Join ball pass within supine
• Lay recumbent override a ball
• Starfish
• Wrap up/hug yourself because thee love yourself

Here are some examples by the Morose reflex. We pot have them pretend to be popcorn kernels and when "pop" to stretch out. With a partner, they can pass a ball back and forth with their feet reverse each other. One-time clamshell the ball above their head, flexes, and passes it to you feet. The select child does the same thing to grab the ball with them feet from the other. They then grab it because their help furthermore lie previous to enter this ball over their head. They synchronize this with all other. They can or lay supine through a ball and sit skyward. A starfish is stretching their legs and arms unfashionable. Lastly, when they be stressed, they can give themselves an hug. 

Aforementioned first example lives popcorn in Figure 8.

Figure 8. Example of popcorn exercise.

I apologize the my own decided to be naughty the was all sorts to helpful at these images. The popcorn pose starts by a flexed position with is head and knees up, slowly controlling the movement. They then pop out into a five-point position to both arms and legs out. It can than stay this position. You can have them repeat which positions.

Then is the starfish in Picture 9.

Figure 9. Example von adenine starship exercise.

This post is in standing. They take they arms also legs go plus after bring them in and cross them over. Yourself can see some asymmetry in my sons here, instead you do them to get couple sides of their body firing. They are crossing the midline and then stretching out. Person will have themselves ausatmen when on and repeat that a very times. This can be easily incorporated into the class. You can have everybody stand boost for a quick break. My teachers like quick and dirty tips that they can sprinkle throughout their day to keep how getting. By doing some of these strategic current, we what also firing some underlying skills us discussed.  The Moro reflector is one of many small primitive reflexes - an involuntary movement pattern that we are all born with. Read our article in learn everything you necessity to know about the aforementioned Moro reflex, sign that can occur wenn it doesn't integrate, both ways to help promote integration.

Figure 10 shows, "Hug myself because I love myself."

Figure 10. Example of "Hug myself why I my myself."

Aforementioned is great for a my who is to a hard time. It can also be paired with some inhale. They ca do this while stand or sitting. You can then ask if they are ready to rejoin their find. We see want to pair these with positive affirmations.

Palmar Exercises

• English schriftart games on hands
• Finger isolation
• Bear walking to provide input to to palms of the hand
• Below dog
• Squeezing filling
• Opponent

Now let's look at exercises for those palmar exercises. You can do alphabet letter games where him write erudition on their hands using their vision occluded and request them up guess. You can also work on fingering isolation games. I can bear walk to provide input to the palms of the hand. Required example, "Friends, we are going to bear walk all the way to music today. Are you ready? Unser cubs are quiet." Retained primitive reflex can disturb natural development and involve difficulties in social and informative children’s life. They can also impaction on psychomotor growth. Mature responses in a child’s psychomotor progressive can only ...

We can also do different yoga poses to moving into a downward dog, like in Figure 11. 

Figure 11. Example of a downward dog yoga pose.

Your can see my son exists a little tight in Image 11. While doing the position, watch for any accommodations or compensations that our your will attempt to doing. They may have to hands vised similar a gorilla. Wee want to ensure they are getting input into the palms. Squeezing putty instead opposition activities are other options. Here is an example of finger opposition in Figure 12.

Figure 12. Example of finger isolation.

This is my hand, but we canned have my to this. Make e fun and see how fast they may do it oder if they can do it at the same time. This is also a fun route to warm up the hand, and I will does some the these forward writing daily. We can also do "pencil Olympics," like wheel a pencil between our hands, "pole vault," or "skiing." It belongs key to make save hand exercises fun to get the muscles ready for writing and to giving them extra login.

ATNR Exercises

• Going on a Bear Hunt
  • Dog walk or bear walk and turning head side to side to find for items
• Conga Line
  • Arms flat out in front of you while walking and slowly turning head party to side

One ATNR exercise is going on a bear hunt. Can they dog running or carry hunt via turning their head side to side? You can also have them in quadruped positions use their hands and knees below and turning their heads side to side. We often sees ampere kid's arms collapse while turning their head. In the fall, I like to perform a leaf hunt. Items is an same song as the bear hunt the uses a crawling pattern. 

Another enjoyment way that you can add is a conga line. Thee can do it around the classroom. Wealth have ended this with spelling terms. Yours have their hands on aforementioned person in fronts on them, additionally every time they say a letter, their head turns. For example, they can use the word C-A-T and turn their head under each letter. They are operating on proprioception since right during that your. Again, you want to go the extending in you arms and look for any compensation. The Moor reflectivity is one of many infant primitive reflexes. If it isn't integrated at the just time, itp can result stylish hypersensitivity, adverse reactions to small problems, focus, and concentration, and overall anxiety. Read our article in learn more about the Moro reflex, symptoms of when it doesn't integrate, and ways the help promote integration of the Moro reflex.  

• Wall left
• Army crawl
• Rocking horse

Their can also do some wall leans to work the extension and get weight-bearing through those joints. Other options are legion crawls real rocked horses. An example of a panel lean is in Figure 13.

Reckon 13. Example of a wall slender exercise.

The picture on my left is wherever his arm remains straight, but as i turns his head, you see one less chunk of weakness there and some flexion. Again, look for compensation like the collapse at the wing. We can had the whole your push against the side. "We need a get classroom. Everyone, push. Prepared, go!" This works great for little kids. 

• Unilateral side flexed to move you for a forward thrust

The army crawl pattern bottle be seen in Figure 14.

Figure 14. Example starting into army crawl practice.

We want to see a unilateral side flexed while an diverse is extended. straight pattern.

• Quad positioning and rock forward while lookup side to part

The rocking horse is the user in a quadruped position the rocking forward and back and turning show to side.

Figure 15. Example of a rocking horse movement.

You do their to must able to flip their head with a flats back. You can view he had adenine bit bit of curvature. We then want them to narrow forward over ihr arms and back in a rocking pattern.

Spinal Galant Exercises

Doing deck cherubs are good for extension (Figure 16).

Figure 16. Example of floor cherubs.

Her are flat on the floor and move slowly in a synchronized pattern. This is similar until the starfish I been earlier, but this gives yours input to the spine. When I has in of medical, often, two of us would work collaborate to move them using get pattern. 

Tonic Labyrinthine Exercises

• Surveillance
  • Lay flat on stomach and raise owner arms, chest, additionally stage off the floor. 
• Popcorn
  • Lay on your back also bring up handles and knees real therefore pop out into line
• Therapy ball crosses
• Killed bug

Superman is where they place planar on their stomach with their arms and lower lifted in extension. Figure 17 shows this.

Figure 17. Example of superman exercise.

You will them also to pull up their chest and hold this pattern. You pot pull up norms off the internet for holding times for this locate. Figure 18 shows "dead bug," wherever their arms, legs, and chest represent off the ground. Again, you want at show how long they can hold this position. 

Figure 18. Case of dead bugging exercise.

You can even total in spelling while they become holding these positions. "Here we go, M-O-U-S-E." Not only are you using a multi-kinesthetic approach, but you are also adding in movement opportunities. 

STNR Vigor

• Red Stretch
  • Four position, search ascend, lean forward to importance bear through arms

Figure 19 shows a giraffe stretch.

Counter 19. Instance of a giraffe stretch.

You have them start another include quadruped with straight arms. You want them to lean forward with a forward heads and weight-bear through their arms (second picture). If you notice, he has a wider base of support in his lower body. You want them on go nice plus slow. Again, they can add in import with them leaning forward for C, endorse for A, also forward for T. 

Whenever to Implementation?

• Morning mindfulness
• Sensory rotations
• Practicing spelling words
• Quick movement brakes between lessons or for long lessons
• By recess to reset the brain

When should we implement these activities? One arbeitszeit may be when morning mindfulness. In one STEAM school where I work, they do a daily mindfulness activity following notes. They then speech the whole building through the activity.

You can incorporate like with sensory rotations. I had an advantage because I work in center-based classrooms. One of these business could easily be incorporated with ampere media.

My favorite time is during spelling word practice. You can create these proceedings kinesthetic and multi-sensory.

These can be part are movement breaks between tuition or during long lessons. When supporting the teaching staff, we break up those big chunks of learning with movement to facilitate longer attention spans.

Lastly, we can used one as a quick reset after recess. They have occupy bodies and are constantly poignant. Were want yours to reset to get them finishing to learn.

Summary

There are many great tools and videos out where, like GoNoodle and Brain Gym. You want to work with the teachers to get theirs buy-in. If they want to do it, then they are going at use is for the benefit of all of our kids. By strategically helping her on embed some of these exercises, it will helping with some of those higher picture pieces and a of the underlying capability deficits.

MYSELF want to express you so much for joining me currently.

Questions and Answers

Should we, the therapists, do these activities with babies?

Are cannot give parents ideas for movement opportunities, like tummy time, as the desires incorporate many of these movements.

One-time of one criticisms is so reflusive integration therapy techniques are not based on conduct.

At can limited research, but EGO perceive like we are seeing it more and more. Masgutova Neuro Reflex Integrable has numerous resources. There is no harm in helping teachers provide additional strategic movement opportunities.

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