ABA Consulting & Training

14/03/2025

Is Your Child Struggling with Focus or Coordination? It Could Be a Retained STNR Reflex!

The Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (STNR) is a primitive reflex that typically emerges around 6 to 9 months of age and helps babies transition from lying down to crawling. It’s crucial for developing posture, coordination, and even visual skills! Normally, it should integrate by 12 months.

Signs of a Retained STNR Reflex:
• Poor posture, often seen as slouching while sitting
• Difficulty sitting still, especially in a classroom setting
• “W-sitting” on the floor or awkward sitting positions
• Challenges with hand-eye coordination (like catching a ball)
• Trouble with reading and writing, including messy handwriting
• Difficulty copying from the board in school
• Clumsiness or frequent tripping

When this reflex doesn’t fully integrate, it can indicate underlying developmental delays or disorders such as ADHD, dyslexia, or other learning challenges.

At our center, we use the Melillo Method to assess and address retained primitive reflexes, helping children improve coordination, attention, and overall brain function.

Wondering if your child might be affected? Reach out to schedule a comprehensive neurodevelopmental evaluation today!

24/10/2024

02/10/2024

About functional neurosciences based learning for special needs learners and all others

🟢 Academia does not look at intelligence through the lens of neuroscience. It should and, hopefully, someday it will.
🟠 Filling a Learning Gap
Children struggle academically because specific key functions in their brains that are used to perform specific academic tasks are underdeveloped.

For example, a child can be a superior reader but struggle in class because his auditory system is out of balance.

He can have perfect hearing but still not be able to process all of what a teacher is saying.

Book learning is not a problem specifically, but learning in general is because he is not processing verbal instruction.

He is not because he cannot. That’s because academic strengths and weaknesses in different learners can be broken down into left brain versus right brain ability.

When you correct your child’s imbalance using the motor and sensory exercises and will be implementing, the brain gradually begins to work in harmony as it is supposed to.

It’s almost like magic because as the program progresses and starts to take hold, you’ll see your child’s school experience begin to change.

Your child will start to love going to school instead of dreading it.

It’s proof positive that the program is working.

That’s because when you correct the brain imbalance, your child’s academic struggles will begin to melt.

When you isolate your child’s specific deficiency and you find the cause, then you can fix it.

DR Melillo, Robert. Disconnected Kids, Third Edition: The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders

Book an initial consultation and find out what help you can get here in Dublin Ireland with Melillo Method certified practitioner

http://www.brainintegration.eu

01/10/2024

Life changing Melillo Method online tuition for SEN learners in Ireland for HT grant VERY LIMITED PLACES first come first served