years of practice

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I wish there were more of you out there in the school systems! My son is 9 and

I am angry that our state developmental agency didn't check reflexes during his

OT evals at both 18 mos and 3 yrs and neither did our private OT at 20 months.

We could have made progress so much faster instead of finding out about them 7

years later! I think every child should be checked for reflexes when referred

to early intervention and every child should be checked before entering

kindergarten! Seems like all foundations should be in place to the best of

their abilities before education starts. I am encouraged that you said reflexes

need to be in place before starting eye exercises - I opted not to do Vision

Therapy because I thought neuro reorganization (we just started) might give my

son a better foundation. You have quite an extensive repertoire of therapies

that you have been trained on - do you have any favorites for integrating

reflexes for eye development over others? Thank you so much for getting the

word out - I am sure you have blessed many families!

Blessings,

I absolutely love the reflex work and after my years of practice,I have

realized the reflex work is truly the foundation to build from. I can have

children work on eye exercises prescribed by the DO, but if there are still

retained reflexes, those need to be worked on first. Build the foundation and

the rest should fall into place. I have seen amazing results in short amounts

of time with all kinds of kids with varying diagnoses. I wish more parents

would take on the role and complete the exercises at home but often that is not

the case. I do what I can within the school environment teaching whomever is

willing to help me out with these needy kids but there needs to be so much more.

I don't know of anyone else in Vermont doing this type of work but I would love

to find them if they are out there! I will continue to educate whoever is

willing to listen and hope for more research so that the buy-in factor is there

on a larger scale. I look forward to hearing from parents, therapists and kids

about your amazing stories!