Intensives
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Week-Long Intensive Program
Our intensive programs help children with: developmental delays, learning disabilities, behavioral difficulties, sensory issues, anxiety, primitive reflexes, balance and vestibular issues, motor deficits, dyslexia, involuntary movements, eye tracking dysfunctions, cognitive delays, traumatic brain injuries, developmental coordination disorders, and much more.
These unique programs are customized to each child’s individual needs, and include two or more hours a day for approximately 1-3 weeks (depending on the severity of the case). After the intensive, a custom-tailored home plan is given to the patient with additional resources, exercises, and any recommended follow-up care (online or in-office).
We serve families near and far! Whether you are local to Greater Seattle or are traveling from across the US or across the world - We are here to support you and your child beyond the distance.
Primitive Reflexes
We focus on primitive reflexes integration in the Intensive. We are all born with primitive reflexes (ex. Moro reflex), which help us to thrive in the first year of life. Most primitive reflexes integrate and go away after the first year. If primitive reflexes are retained after a child’s first birthday, it interrupts proper development of the brain, which leads to a variety of symptoms, ranging from sensory, behavioral, academic, physical movement, emotional dysregulation to autonomic dysregulation. In the intensive program, we help children build a strong neurological foundation and we believe it starts with primitive reflexes integration.
You can self-check for the most common primitive reflexes that we see in the office and common symptoms associated with them below.
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex:
Reading delays
Handwriting difficulties
Difficulty tying shoes
Difficulty learning to ride a bike
Balance and coordination issues
Right and left side confusion
Saccadic eye movement in the horizontal plane.
Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex:
Reading challenges
Sloppy eating
Poor posture
Altered spinal curvatures
Poor fine motor skills
Convergence insufficiency
Saccadic eye movement in the vertical plane.
Spinal Galant:
Fidgety
Easily distracted
Bowel and bladder dysfunction
Alter spinal curvatures.
Bed wetting
Moro Reflex:
Anxiety,
Large outbursts,
Motion sickness,
Difficulties transitioning from one thing to the next,
Hypersensitive to light,
Sound, and touch,
Allergies and asthma,
Constant fight or flight response (sympathetic dominant).
Sensory Reflex on mouth, hands and feet:
Feeding issues,
Messy eating,
Speech delays,
Fine motor difficulties,
Writing issues,
Toe-walking,
TMJ issues,
Chronic inflammation.
