Retained Reflex Therapy Alternatives

[IndigoBell]

Those of you who want to do Vision Therapy or Retained Reflex Therapy (or Brain Gym or Dore) but are struggling to afford it or find someone local who does it, might be interested in Disconnected Kids

I've just bought the book, I haven't done the program, but it looks fairly similar. It's a set of exercises that can be done at home. It has some quite good vision ones, and also some ones to improve hyper/hyposensitive smell, plus ones for core stability, tactile defensiveness, vestibular system and Proprioception.

Not sure if it's any good - but it looks good to me

It's the 'do it at home program' from Brain Balance Centers

thank you Indigo for posting this, will try and get hold of it too

oh gosh, there will be a new one coming out in April, Reconnected kids, I wonder whether this will be an update or follow up? Did you get yours through the Brain Balance Centre or amazon?

I bought it through Amazon. Somebody mentioned it on a diff thread.

I will probably do the smell exercises with DS, as he has hypersensitive smell. But as always it's a question of finding the time to fit even more stuff into the day. :)

Brilliant, thanx indigo, I have been looking into retained reflex therapy for Dd3 but really can't afford it.

I will buy the book and have a go.

Do you think this would help a child with CP and movements are a bit, well flailing?
DS has the ATNR on both sides as well as the moro and quite possible the rooting. He is 2 1/2

I bought this book a few weeks ago and personally I am quite bogged down in it. Sadly I am not finding it very helpful because I can't fathom out exactly what we should be doing with DD.

Not got the book yet, but have been reading about neuroplasticity and based on that, anything that's new and takes them beyond their physical or even mental boundaries is worth doing. I also think both approaches are quite similar.
Lilbod, CP is mentioned in my book (The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge) and there have been cases of improvement, see if you can the book from the library to understand the principle, mine is from the library, very interesting.

I just bought this book too. Unfortunately ds seems to have just as many right hemisphere symptoms as he does left.
I haven't done the observations yet, so hopefully that might clarify, although there seem to be a hell of a lot of them- will take me a long, long time to manipulate ds into doing them all!

my ds was/still is also "patchy" with some left and some right issues, I think bringing them together should be worth it