Assessment & Treatment
ASSESSMENT
The
assessment consists of a series of non-invasive neurological tests
that measure performance on - balance, coordination, patterns of
motor development, reflexes, visual functioning and visual
perception.
TREATMENT
Treatment is drug free and non-invasive. It consists of
a series of physical exercises designed to retrain the reflex
pathways and improve control over voluntary movements, visual
functioning, and perceptual abilities.
Typically, the
programme will take 5 - 10 minutes a day over a period of 9 to 12
months. Progress is reviewed at 2 monthly intervals, and the
programmed changed as appropriate.
Background
Everyone is born with a set of primitive reflexes that helps
us survive the early months of life. During the first year of
life these reflexes should come under the control of a higher part
of the brain.
If they are not fully controlled in
infancy, the brain cannot gain adequate control over voluntary,
skilled and complex movements.
Symptoms of NDD may include
problems such as motion sickness, and difficulties learning for
example to ride a bicycle, tie shoelaces, and do up buttons, eye
movements (necessary for reading) may not be controlled, and
hand-eye coordination may be impaired.
When the physical
nature of these problems is not identified, frustration, stress, and
emotional upset can result.