HELPWITH – dyslexia dyspraxia ADHD aspergers dyscalculia

I highly recommend Sue Cook as a therapist , she has
been brilliant with my son, who was borderline autistic, and severely
dislexic, he is now no longer dislexic,doing very well in a normal
school, with a good set of friends. He made a huge jump with the care & advice that Sue gave us. Also she has taught me about Neurology and
the ways of helping brain injured children through
exercises to stimulate the brain.

J T

I gave a talk to 50 health care professionals today about my neurodevelopment work.

Here is a transcript

When my son was diagnosed with dyslexia, I was told there was no cure, you had to learn to live with it.

I disagreed. I believed there were answers, we just had to find them.

Find them I did and I started treating my son. He did really well, and news of his progress went out like a shockwave. I realised I’d built an accidental practice when people from Saudi and France starting ringing me, and enquiries were coming in from all over the world.

So three years later, I am still treating children with neurodevelopmental problems, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, Asperger’s ADHD, mutism, Autism.

You may have been told, like me, that treatment for these conditions is not possible. However the vast explosion of research in the last 20 years, has answered many of the questions about why movement programmes, like the one I use, work.

The programme I use is a whole brain programme, developed over many decades, and  used for cerebral palsy and autism, later it was also used for the conditions already mentioned.

Nerve inputs,, or in other words, sensory inputs to the brain, are reloaded. This is done with movements of the body. The brain learns through movement, think of the Romanian orphans kept in cots, unstimulated and undeveloped  resulting in a sad demonstration of how immobility, or at least lack of the right kind of mobility, fails to develop the brain.

We find in learning disabled children that often they did not crawl, indicating missed developmental stages.

The brain develops hierarchically, so if a foundation is missing, the walls cannot stay up, or in other words the person may not be ‘brain ready’ for reading.

The answer? Simply repeat the developmental stages and give the brain another chance to develop as it should have done the first time had nothing gone wrong.

Results/improvements, can happen really fast, sometimes after the first session, sometimes in the first week. For example, my so learnt to track with his eyes the first week, and swim.

I love learning  and studying, and finding answers, and last year I noticed a link between neuro science and neuro development. I contacted the head of my old university department and told him about it. He had never heard of this link, and he is delighted to help me get some articles published and some research done on it. If I am right, it would revolutionise treatment of Autism spectrum disorders.

The brain can learn at any age. There is no fixed window of opportunity that closes at three years old; did we learn to drive at 3?

Of course not, we continue to learn our whole lives as long as we stimulate our brains, thanks to nerve growth factors.

from someone who was there…

‘Good afternoon Sue – absolutely fantastic presentation at the Breakfast yesterday, thank you for enlightening me, and clearly blowing the room away with your enthusiasm and knowledge! I am just about to go and investigate your website and inform myself a little further, but it was great to become aware of you and your work.’

If Kids Just Came with Instructions Sheets S Gold Third Edition 978-0-9764543-1-1

Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood Robert Melillo Kluwer Academic 0-306-47814-5

Principles of Neuroscience Kandel & Schwartz 4th Ed McGrawHill 0-8385-7701-6

Attention, Behavior and Learning Problems in Children Weinberg BC Decker 1-55009-161-1

Reflexes, Learning and Behavior S Goddard Fern Ridge Press 0-9615332-8-5

E for Additives M Hanssen Thorsons 0-7225-1562-6

The Chemical Maze – Your Guide to Food Additives and Cosmetic Ingredients Bill Statham Summersdale Ltd1-84024-482-8

The Out of Sync Child Carol Stock Kranowitz

Disconnected Kids Dr Roberet Melillo

2006 Hunter Pauline MA, University of Middlesex

Effectiveness of a developmental exercise programme, for children with special needs. 2005 Goddard Blythe SA

Releasing educational potential through movement. Child Care in Practice, Volume 11/4: 415 – 432.

2003 Preedy P, O’Donovon C, Scott J, Wolinski R

Exercises for learning – a Beacon Project between Knowle CE Primary School and Kingsley Preparatory School.

2003 Jändling M

A follow-up study of a group of children, two years after they had completed a Developmental Exercise Programme for Schools. Results demonstrated that the children had maintained the gains they had made two years earlier.

2002 Bertram S

A report prepared for The Birmingham Core Skills Partnership studying learning enhancement through reflex inhibition.

2001 Pettman H

This study demonstrated the effects of developmental exercise movements on children with persistent primary reflexes and reading difficulties using a controlled trial.

2001 Bein-Wierzbinski W

Study of children with specific learning difficulties, persistent primitive reflexes in elementary school children and the effect on oculo-motor and visual perception.

2000 Lancet, McPhillps, Hepper and Mulhern

A double blind controlled study examining the effects of replicating primary reflex movements on specific reading difficulties in children.

1997 University of Indianapolis

O’Dell and Cooke found Bender’s exercises based on movements involving creeping (crawling) against resistance were of value in overcoming hyperactivity. Stopping Hyperactivity – A New Solution (Avery Pubs, NY).

1989 Faulkner P (Bucks School)

A study investigating the effects of a reflex stimulation and inhibition programme on reading.

Dala Clinic Report

Gothenberg examined the impact of a reflex inhibition programme on educational achievement in a group of 15 children diagnosed with specific learning difficulties.

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