Guest guest Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Can you tell me more about HANDLES? I've heard good things but what exactly do you do? It sounds so strange from what I've read. How did it help? Cheryl > > > Not long ago, someone emailed about a child having stims ? or developing a tic? I am sorry I had erased the email. My son does alot of tounge clicking at times which could develop into a tic. We see a practitioner that does HANDLE exercies that will address this and help to avoid this happening. > We have done this program for about 6 months and is has made a huge difference in my son's functioning and brain organization, that people were asking what we were doing with him. > It is different than OT and does not work the same way to help sensory issues. It helps get at the root causes of it as well. We are starting in Sept., but this has helped us start to re-train his brain and go through normal developmental stages. The website is www.HANDLE.org. > Sorry as to not remembering more specifics from the email sent. This is just what we have found helpful. > Angie > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Can you tell me more about HANDLES? I've heard good things but what exactly do you do? It sounds so strange from what I've read. How did it help? Cheryl > > > Not long ago, someone emailed about a child having stims ? or developing a tic? I am sorry I had erased the email. My son does alot of tounge clicking at times which could develop into a tic. We see a practitioner that does HANDLE exercies that will address this and help to avoid this happening. > We have done this program for about 6 months and is has made a huge difference in my son's functioning and brain organization, that people were asking what we were doing with him. > It is different than OT and does not work the same way to help sensory issues. It helps get at the root causes of it as well. We are starting in Sept., but this has helped us start to re-train his brain and go through normal developmental stages. The website is www.HANDLE.org. > Sorry as to not remembering more specifics from the email sent. This is just what we have found helpful. > Angie > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Cheryl- HANDLE stands for holistic approach to neurodevelopmental and learning efficiancy. You can type in handle.org or handleinstitute.org to get to the main website. It was created by a woman named Judith Bluestone and she wrote a book " The Fabric of Autsim " . She had some form of autism as a child. The consultants have quite a bit of training and there are not many out there, but they are listed on the webiste. HANDLE was recommended to us by a nurse who also had an autistic child. I have heard a few other parents that do it also with good success. It is necessary to be committed to the program and do it daily in the right way. We have been doing this since last Dec. The first 3 months we saw only minimal change, but I guess it takes a bit longer to have results. Month 4-5 of our program we had HUGE gains with my son, and this was really the only thing we were doing at the time, no diet changes, new meds, etc. I also did some schooling, but felt his sensory issues had to be addressed first. I had people making comments on how well he was doing and even an OT asking what we were doing and became very interested in it. Prior to this we also took my son out of school as it seemed to stress him out, but this stress did also continue at home, until a few months after doing the program. After about the 4-5 months his learning went way up and he was much more organized in brain functioning, etc. Obvioulsy kids have there own rate of success. This was our experience. The exercises did seem strange to me also at first, but the concept behind it makes sense. HANDLE is not the same at OT or other programs like brain gym (?) or NACD. IT works to fix root causes of problems and looks at the fight and flight mechanism with kids. The part on the webiste on " gentle enhancement " explains some of this. Unfortunatley we moved and I was not that faithful at the exercieses for a few weeks and then he was sick with some viral infection and from all these things together has had a tounge click return again and frequent. We are seeing our consultant sooner as he said there are exercieses he may have to change so it does not become a tic. I hope this gives some information you are looking for. Please email with any more questions. Angie It is complex and does require a good consultant. We are in WI and see McNatt who is listed on the HANLDLE website, he is south of Chicago. From: cherylconrad <cherylconrad@...> Subject: Re: stims / tics Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 12:30 AM Can you tell me more about HANDLES? I've heard good things but what exactly do you do? It sounds so strange from what I've read. How did it help? Cheryl > > > Not long ago, someone emailed about a child having stims ? or developing a tic? I am sorry I had erased the email. My son does alot of tounge clicking at times which could develop into a tic. We see a practitioner that does HANDLE exercies that will address this and help to avoid this happening. > We have done this program for about 6 months and is has made a huge difference in my son's functioning and brain organization, that people were asking what we were doing with him. > It is different than OT and does not work the same way to help sensory issues. It helps get at the root causes of it as well. We are starting in Sept., but this has helped us start to re-train his brain and go through normal developmental stages. The website is www.HANDLE.org. > Sorry as to not remembering more specifics from the email sent. This is just what we have found helpful. > Angie > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Sorry Cherly- I forgot to say how it helped. I think it really helped my son with the organization of his brain and working through some stages he had not done- like a tactile stage. He also had less stims, less OCD and more focus, better conversational language even. It seemed after all these things were more in place I saw a huge learning surge and just overall being aware and not in his own world. More focus also resulted in less hyperactivity. What you do is exercises assigned by the consultant, they take me about 45 min a day total. I forgot I sent the prior email you had attached to this!! Maybe I need handle exercises too!! Sorry if anything is a repeat. Angie From: cherylconrad <cherylconrad@...> Subject: Re: stims / tics Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 12:30 AM Can you tell me more about HANDLES? I've heard good things but what exactly do you do? It sounds so strange from what I've read. How did it help? Cheryl > > > Not long ago, someone emailed about a child having stims ? or developing a tic? I am sorry I had erased the email. My son does alot of tounge clicking at times which could develop into a tic. We see a practitioner that does HANDLE exercies that will address this and help to avoid this happening. > We have done this program for about 6 months and is has made a huge difference in my son's functioning and brain organization, that people were asking what we were doing with him. > It is different than OT and does not work the same way to help sensory issues. It helps get at the root causes of it as well. We are starting in Sept., but this has helped us start to re-train his brain and go through normal developmental stages. The website is www.HANDLE.org. > Sorry as to not remembering more specifics from the email sent. This is just what we have found helpful. > Angie > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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