LAC1961
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RE: Hello...any suggestions?
I'm glad the info was helpful. Your little guy has had a lot of obstacles to overcome, and I applaud your efforts to seek help while he's still young. It isn't unusual for the medical community to poo poo things they didn't learn in medical school. My daughter had seen seven different doctors, none of whom spoke of SPD or diet affecting behavior. Everything I've learned was due to my own initiative and research.
We met with the doctor (chiropractor) tonight. Of the eight reflexes Brain Balance tested my daughter for, four were in the red zone, which means that on a scale of 1 to 5, she has a 4 for showing signs the reflex still exists and is limiting her function. Two were a 3 and two were a 2. The doctor also commented on how her listening and memory skills are more like a 7-9 year old, which is likely attributable to the years of speech therapy and the Therapeutic Listening we've been doing for a few months. It's the putting what she hears into action that's a huge obstacle. We're starting out with exercises to help with the primitive reflexes, the first two being Angels (like snow angels, but on the carpet) and Starfish (a little more complex, but you can google Starfish exercise for primitive reflexes--there are some videos of it on UTube. We have to do 10 repetitions twice a day, but three would be better. They said to expect some symptoms to become worse before they improve because you are challenging a reflex that has existed since utero.
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05-23-2013, 11:46 PM |
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