Teaching Neurodevelopmental Movements Welcome Brain and Sensory Foundations • OTs, PTs, • Vision and Speech Therapists Neurodevelopmental Movement for • Parents and Educators Physical, Emotional, Social and Learning Skills • Pain specialists, Trauma specialists • Mental Health counselors • Learning specialists Please have a water bottle, mats and pillow ready • Healthcare professionals for doing movement on the floor • Yoga Therapists • Massage Therapists • Caregivers Write your name on your manual • Coaches • Performance optimization moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Course Overview Common Challenges • Rhythmic Movements • Anxiety • Frustration • Reflexes • LacK of focus, under functioning • Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex (TLR) • LacK of impulse control • Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflexes (STNR) • Asymmetric Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR) • Difficulty learning • Hands and Feet Reflexes • Emotional outbursts • Spinal Galant Reflex • Sensitivities to touch, sound, light, motion, smells • Moro Reflex • Inability to be still • Fear Paralysis Reflexes • Speech, auditory and visual challenges • Headrighting Reflexes • Pain, tension, fatigue • Poor posture, poor core strength • Special Tools—PACE, Heart Coherence, Balance Process, Support Repatterning Sequence, Joint Compression, Core • Poor balance Activation • Developmental Movements, Play and Games Many children are not physically or neurologically ready to accomplish the tasks we ask of them moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Neurodevelopmental Movements are fundamental to building our structural alignment, core strength—and brain maturity Sitting Then Photographs are from Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living (2013) and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor *Photographs from Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living (2013) and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor Posture Affects Your Child’s Health (2010) by Kathleen Porter. www.naturalposturesolutions.com Posture Affects Your Child’s Health (2010) by Kathleen Porter. www.naturalposturesolutions.com moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Sitting Now Sitting Now Photographs are from Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living (2013) and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor Photographs are from Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living (2013) and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor Posture Affects Your Child’s Health (2010) by Kathleen Porter. www.naturalposturesolutions.com Posture Affects Your Child’s Health (2010) by Kathleen Porter. www.naturalposturesolutions.com moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Standing Now Standing Then *Photographs from Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living (2013) and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor *Photographs from Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living (2013) and Sad Dog Happy Dog: How Poor Posture Affects Your Child’s Health (2010) by Kathleen Porter. www.naturalposturesolutions.com Posture Affects Your Child’s Health (2010) by Kathleen Porter. www.naturalposturesolutions.com moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Autism: Head Lag and Autism moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story The Movement-Sensing Perspective “Head lag was significantly associated with autism spectrum disorder at 36 [months]”* *Flanagan, J. E., Landa, R., Bhat, A., & Bauman, M. (2012). Head lag in infants at risK for autism: • “Therapeutic A preliminary study. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66(5), 577-585 interventions ideally should build on core principles of neurodevelopment.” • Elizabeth Torres and Caroline Whyatt, Editors • CRC Press, October 2017, Series, Frontiers in Neuroscience Healthy Baby Compromised Baby Photo from Kathleen Porter, author of Healthy Posture for Babies and Children. naturaltothecore.wordpress.com moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Healthy Baby Healthy Baby Neurodevelopmental Movements—REQUIRED Not Optional, for normal development Profound Transformation with Innate Movements Innate movements of womb and infancy • Develop sensory processing, brain maturity • Ability to speaK and learn with ease • Have upright posture, strength and stamina • Develop emotional and cognitive sKills Drawings Submitted by Nina Gallwey, Remedial Education Teacher, SisKiyou School, Oregon Before participating in a movement program, the 81⁄2-year-old student who drew these pictures struggled with selective mutism. With regular rhythmic movement, this student’s strides amazed her speech therapist: she now reads aloud in class and joined her school’s Drama Club. moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Profound Transformation with Innate Movements Brain Tune- Up pages 18-19 1. Water 2. Brain Buttons 3. Cross Crawl Drawings Submitted by Nina Gallwey, When there is emotional upset, go Remedial Education Teacher, SisKiyou School, directly to Wrap-Ups, first position Oregon moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Illustrations © Morgan Humphreys Davis, PT Mind and Motion 907-209-7133 [email protected] The Power of the PACE for Anxiety What to do if someone is Reduction—Doctoral Thesis Report Jan Irving, PhD dysregulated by movement • First year nursing students Decrease in • In some instances, the Rhythmic and/or Reflex • Purpose of study— determine the effect of Group Self-Reported Increase in Integration activities may trigger reactions of the PACE process on self- Anxiety Performance dizziness, nausea or intense emotion. If this occurs: reported anxiety and on performance With 69.5% 18.7% PACE Reduction in Increase in • Stop, rest and offer any of the following: • Five WeeK baseline data self-reported performance • Hook ups established high levels of anxiety on sKills tests anxiety and some • Brain Buttons students were failing the weeKly sKill tests. No No consistent Higher failure • Positive Points (ESR points, touch frontal eminence) intervention behavior rate • Water • Oregon State University, change Corvallis, OR moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Importance of Rhythm Rhythmic Movements for • Rhythm is fundamental to our development, learning and well-being Brain Connectivity • Breathing Stimulation of the RAS and Cerebellum grows the brain • Heart Rate & develops the nerve networks to “link up” the brain. • Mature movement • Learning • Speaking All depend on rhythm Rhythm Movements are especially helpful for calming, reflex integration, brain connectivity (maturity), sensory integration. In RMT we learn to draw out the innate rhythm of the one we are working with. ASK FOR FEEDBACK when giving rhythmic movements in passive form. Passive rocKing movements should always be done in a way that is pleasant for both giver and receiver. For those who are non-verbal, looK at The RAS receives sensory information—tactile, The Cerebellum is responsible for many motor facial expression, change in breathing, relaxation response. visual, balance, proprioceptive, auditory—and and cognitive functions. It is 10% of brain relays it to the Cortex. Responsible for volume and holds nearly 80% of the brain’s moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story “waKefulness” alertness, attention total neurons. Before and After Innate Rhythmic Movements Before and After Innate Rhythmic Movements Submitted by Lisa Muir BSc hons OT After 15 minutes of innate rhythmic movement His first session of R.M (read marble and not mardull) Kyle, 5 years old moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Before and After Innate Rhythmic Movements Before and After Innate Rhythmic Movements Submitted by Lisa Muir BSc hons OT Submitted by Lisa Muir BSc hons OT After 15 minutes of innate rhythmic movement 5 year old girl, presenting with motor planning / coordination concerns. Also her first session of R.M – This is a little girl who not long before this cried in my 6 year old boy, with inattentive behaviors, poor posture and ocular motor concerns. movement class, looKing down at her legs, “they don’t worK!” After, 15 minutes of R.M. Also his first session. Truly that was his posture after! moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story Infant Rhythmic Movements Establish Brain Connectivity Eight month twins rocking in sync! • Brain Stem to Limbic and Cortex— connections for: • attention/focus • impulse control • emotional development • ability to filter sensory information • sensory processing of all Kinds • Cerebellum to Cortex—connections for • Attention/focus • mature eye movements • speech development • learning/memory, speed of information processing • reading comprehension Lucinda Ruh. Published on Feb 5, 2013 on YouTube. moveplaythrive.com © 2019 Sonia Story History and Results Rhythmic Movement Training Rhythmic Movement Training • Mary Gazca, dissertation for Master’s Degree, St. Catherine University RMT is a combination of innate rhythmic movements and primitive and • Rebooting Development with a Rhythmic Motor Intervention, May 2012 postural reflex integration movements derived from the movements babies do • Evaluative online survey of individuals using RMT for 3 months minimum with in the womb and early infancy children with developmental disorders Infancy is the time in our lives when the Reducing Increasing Increasing Ability brain grows the fastest Distractibility Attention/focus to complete tasks Brain growth is driven by 85.8 % agree 92.1% agree 86.8 % agree neurodevelopmental movements • Kerstin Linde Reducing Reducing Reducing sensitivity to sensitivity