Have any of you heard of author Sally Goddard Blythe? I

[Storm Bay]

If so, have you read her books? If not, you may wish to check her out. I learned of her from ds's vision therapist .One is called Reflexes, Learning And Behavior: A Window into the Child's Mind : A Non-Invasive Approach to Solving Learning & Behavior Problems and she has one with exercises to help. He did a simple test with ds and found that ds still has a reflex that should have been gone by 3 (and is often gone when dc are born if they are born vaginally; it's a reflex babies need to turn properly as they are being born).

[PeterPan]

I saw your mention of these in the other thread. So was your dc born by c-section and thus had retained this particular reflex? So the book goes through the retained primitive reflexes and tells exercises to integrate them? Is it very thorough? Our library doesn't have it, even on ILL. :(

[wapiti]

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Edited February 6, 2015 by wapiti

[NCW]

This is a wonderful book, full of clear explanations. It does go through how to check whether early developmental reflexes are unintegrated, but it does not give treatment techniques.

 

Treatment is in skilled SI treatment, or directly with protocols taught in classes by INPP (Sally Goddard and Peter Blythe's work), Svetlana Musgatova's courses, and Harald Blomberg's Rhythmic Movement Intervention. I know there are more, but these are what I'm most familiar with. Brain Gym exercises also assist with integrating reflexes. And the optometrist who has published Vision Therapy at Home has a reflex integration text that comes with a DVD demonstrating the exercises. One other resource is Rappin on the Reflexes, which is a text with a CD - uses movements and song.

 

It seems there are new things online, courses, materials being published on this topic almost weekly right now....

 

NCW

hsing only one now, in middle school

[PeterPan]

NCW, that's very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[Joyofsixreboot]

Hmm, ds was breech. Off to research these.

[Dobela]

If so, have you read her books? If not, you may wish to check her out. I learned of her from ds's vision therapist .One is called Reflexes, Learning And Behavior: A Window into the Child's Mind : A Non-Invasive Approach to Solving Learning & Behavior Problems and she has one with exercises to help. He did a simple test with ds and found that ds still has a reflex that should have been gone by 3 (and is often gone when dc are born if they are born vaginally; it's a reflex babies need to turn properly as they are being born).

This is fascinating. DS was a vaginal delivery and had maintained his primative reflexes. DD was also vaginal, but very premature.... I'll be researching this more as well. Thanks so much for the information.

[PeterPan]

This is fascinating. DS was a vaginal delivery and had maintained his primative reflexes. DD was also vaginal, but very premature.... I'll be researching this more as well. Thanks so much for the information.

 

Yeah, you gotta get 'em big, 9-11 pounds, if you hope to squeeze it out of them. Just joking. :)

 

Next thing you know, they'll back it up further and say our kids have vestibular problems because we were too sedentary in pregnancy and didn't do enough walking and bouncing around. I've actually had sort of a complex about it for years. I wondered if my dd had problems, because I didn't rock her (in a rocking chair) enough. Don't you just hate the way we can feel guilty about whatever goes wrong with our kids?

[NCW]

I'm sorry my post last night was so poorly written. It was a crazy busy day, and I should never write when I need to get out the door in five minutes.

 

Here are some links I didn't have time to include:

 

http://www.inpp.org.uk/

http://www.rhythmicmovement.com/

http://masgutovamethod.com/

http://www.visiontherapyathome.com/category_s/60.htm

http://www.evekodiak.com/rappin.html

http://www.brainhighways.com/ (this site has a series of educational videos that are nicely done)

[Storm Bay]

I saw your mention of these in the other thread. So was your dc born by c-section and thus had retained this particular reflex? So the book goes through the retained primitive reflexes and tells exercises to integrate them? Is it very thorough? Our library doesn't have it, even on ILL. :(

 

Yes, my dc were born by C-section, but only he has retained the primitive reflexes.

 

This is a wonderful book, full of clear explanations. It does go through how to check whether early developmental reflexes are unintegrated, but it does not give treatment techniques.

 

Treatment is in skilled SI treatment, or directly with protocols taught in classes by INPP (Sally Goddard and Peter Blythe's work), Svetlana Musgatova's courses, and Harald Blomberg's Rhythmic Movement Intervention. I know there are more, but these are what I'm most familiar with. Brain Gym exercises also assist with integrating reflexes.

NCW

hsing only one now, in middle school

 

Sally Goddard Blythe does have another book of excercises that ds's OT mentioned (not by name) and so I ordered her book of exercises. The exercise ds is doing for the one reflex already found is very simple and common sense. (the test is the one with a line and the dc walking forward and back first with toes pointed out (duck feet) and then with toes pointed in.) I'm planning to use her exercises along with some from Brain Gym along with his VT.

 

VT is very interesting because it involves more than just the exercises but also with ds's ability to communicate what he has done, etc. It's very much a thinking therapy.

[merry gardens]

I know this thread is a few months old, but I hoped for an update from some of you who have now read her book(s). :bigear:

[Guest a5mac]

I am currently seeing a Neuro Developmental Delay specialist in Colorado (we live in Alabama) who studied under Sally Goddard Blythe. She sees lots of patients long-distance but you do have to go there for the assessment then you can do stuff by video or Skype. We love her and so far she has helped my daughter the most.

Her name is Anna Buck and here is her website.

http://www.annashousellc.com/index.html

There is lots of information on the website.

My daughter is 9 and is dyslexic/ADHD. We have done vision therapy which did not help her at all (for almost 2 years and lots of $$) and tutoring with a specialist for about 2 years. I sat in on the tutoring and learned alot about phonics but my daughter did not make very much progress.

Laura Mc

Edited July 9, 2011 by a5mac

[Storm Bay]

I know this thread is a few months old, but I hoped for an update from some of you who have now read her book(s). :bigear:

 

Most of what she has is for children younger than mine, so I didn't read the books; I do want to buy something at the end that she recommends for older children.