Integrated Learning Therapy uses a multidisciplinary, non-drug based approach to sensory integration and neuro-development through specific movement activities, and so helps to support and enhance learning effectiveness and social interaction. It is an individualised home based movement programme that believes in talking openly to the child and the parents about the every day struggles and difficulties that they face. It works to find the root cause for learning difficulties.
The topics to be covered include:
■ An exploration of the interactive and interdependent nature of neurodevelopment; ■ Developmental delay and the importance of developmental milestones and Reflex integration; ■ How movement, supported by proper nutrition, organizes mental processing, influences the body’s biochemistry and helps mould the actual structure of the brain across the lifespan; ■ Understanding that nothing stands alone, that systems are interactive, including outside as well as inside the body; ■ Why it is important, when delivering therapy, to respect the individual, including honouring unique sensitivities, and to view behaviours as communication; ■ How to recognise the signs of stress and their impact by applying the principle of Gentle Enhancement™ to support and thereby strengthen stressed systems, so they do not shut down; and ■ How programmes influence all forms of learning: academic, language, motor/fine motor skills, social interaction. |