Retained reflexes

[AprilSkies]

Where do I get an assessment and where to start?

We go to Hemipsheres, they have branches around the South East if that's your area.

Also, INPP in Chester.

Lots of places april depending on where you live.

I used INPP at Chester (it was a 2 hour drive for us each way!!)

GO to their website, do the online questionairre and they will get back to you. As Dr Blythe said to me, "If we cant help ds1 we will know someone who can"

Other places include;
Sound learning centre
Hemispheres

Good luck x

Hemispheres even, here's a link

www.hemispheres.org.uk/

DD2 has come on leaps and bounds since we started there.

HTH

Thanks guys :)

We were told that ds was too young aged 4.5. He's 5.0 now. Has anyone had success with RRT for younger children?
Also, how do people get their dps to buy into this sort of thing? Dh very sceptical and I'm too taken up with baby/all the other stuff we do to do twice daily exercises with ds atm.
Has anyone got it into an iep successfully?

That's interesting actually oodles, DS is only 2.5.

Ds1 was 7.7 when we started but I wish I had done it sooner tbh.

I think it all depends on the child.

I do it with DS at hemispheres.

Started when DS was just over 4 and yes it easier now he's nearly 5, but has been well worth doing since the beginning.

DS has come on in leaps and bounds too x

April - I think you have to be at least 4 to do RRT. But I could be wrong.

You might want to consider Tinsley House at his age instead.

Both RRT and Tinsley House are neurodevelopment therapies - ie they both work on correcting the brain, however they are very different. They are both very effective.

Oodles - we only did exercises once a day, and they only took about 10 mins. The way we got it done was by prioritising it above everything else. Certainly above homework.

He hated doing them at first, but once they were part of his bedtime routine we had no problems, because he likes routines.... He didn't actually hate the exercises which were all fairly simple.

BlueShark and EvieBaby have both had good success with RRT for a 5 year old with ASD.

Agree with indigo The RRT exercises really arent that hard to do and you only do 3-5 mins per day. They became part of ds1's daily routine and in fact he occasionally did them of his own accord without being prompted!!!

(oh and we are also now at Tinsley House!)

April - depends how cooperative is your dc. I would have never got DS doing the rrt before 4. He started when he was 4.6 and we are still doing them after a year, but the length of programme depends how many rr he has retained.

We went to the sound learning centre, DS started with 90% issues and is down to below 30. The improvement is so obvious even to the most stubborn people as dh can sometimes be.

I don't know about th, but I was planning to take DS once he turns 6 and we finish the rr programme.

Rr works bottom up towards the brain and th does the other way around from what I heard and read.

Inpp works similar to sound learning centre.