Robert Melillo – Integrative Therapy for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

There are techniques and tools that can be applied to clinical success regardless of the severity or condition.

Robert Melillo – Integrative Therapy for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

All types of neurobehavioral disorders can be seen, from motor, sensory and behavioral disorders to academic, digestive, immune, and autonomic dysregulation.

But, why? Is there a connection? These disorders are believed to be interconnected by most experts. How? How? Melillo These questions will be answered in the most practical manner.

Based on over 20 years of cutting experience and clinical expertise-Dr. Melillo This course will introduce you to new and innovative therapeutic techniques that connect motor development with cognitive development. It also examines the relationship between early milestones, retained primitive reflexes, and how they relate to motor development. All of this will be tied together by the Polyvagal Theory, brain-hemisphericity analysis and an understanding of how brain and hemispheres regulate all things. There are techniques and tools that can be applied to clinical success regardless of the severity or condition.

Understanding the root causes of learning and neurobehavioral disorders is crucial for successful treatment.

From this recording, you’ll learn:

• Polyvagal issues can be identified and treated using primitive reflexes. They also have the ability to recognize and resolve a variety of learning, behavioral and social issues.
• Strategies to effectively and quickly inhibit primitive reflexes while encouraging the development postural reflexes
• Tools to promote and assess balance in the vestibular and oculomotor systems.
• Assessments for Skills in motor, sensory and academic skills as well as cognitive, cognitive, and behavioral abilities
• To promote brain integration, sensory, motor, cognitive, and behavioral techniques are used
• Assessments and interventions for nutrition and simple dietary issues

1. Explain the relationship between brain developmental milestones, primitive reflexes, and brain development to effectively treat neurobehavioral or learning disorders.
2. Recall the role of retained primitive instincts in the development neurobehavioral conditions.
3. Perform a primitive reflex assessment on clients of all ages. Then, implement specific exercises to inflict each reflex and encourage the development of postural responses.
4. Discuss the clinical implications of the autonomic, immune, and social engagement dysregulation connection.
5. Conduct clinical assessments for clients with neurodevelopmental problems.
6. Determine how ADHD, OCD and dyslexia are related to attachment, Polyvagal system and hemispheric imbalances.
7. Comprehensive treatment plans are needed to correct and improve neurological development.

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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROLOGY OVERVIEW

• Epidemiology of educational, mental, and neurobehavioral disorders
• Brain development and movement
• Brain development through integration, separation, and localization
• The relationship between brain development and primitive and postural, as well as retention and development of reflexes.
• Brain development, function and asymmetry. Also, the relationship to learning disabilities and behavioral issues.
• Disorders and socialization issues

REMEDY AND RESOLVEMENT OF PRIMITIVE PRIMITIVE REFLEXES

• What are primitive reflexes? How do they develop?
• Examine primitive reflexes in infants and children as well as adults
• Specific primitive reflex retention symptoms
• Asymmetry in primitive reflexes and its relationship to brain imbalances, ADHD and dyslexia
• HANDS-ON LAB: Remediation exercises for primitive reflexes
• CASE STUDY: An adult female with multiple retained primitive instincts, history dyslexia, depression and digestive problems.

PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE THE POLYVAGAL THEORY IS IN LIFE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

• The evolution of the autonomic systems and polyvagal theory
• Fear paralysis reflex, Moro reaction, parasympathetic, and sympathetic nervous system development
• Polyvagal Theory – Relate movement to primitive reflexes
• Hemispheric and autonomic regulation of the immune system, gut function and other matters
• Assess autonomic regulation, heart rate variability and autonomic growth.
• Connect brainstem, the development the social engagement system and attachment disorders
• HANDS-ON LAB: 35 ways stimulate the vagal system
• CASE STUDY: A child with ADHD who retains the Moro reflex and has abnormal heart rate variability.
• CASE STUDY – Patient with autism and autonomic dysfunction

HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE Vs HEMISPHERIC WISENESS

• Right brain vs left brain functions
  • What and how do the left and right brains become specialized?
  • How imbalances can develop
  • Specific symptoms can be caused by imbalance

• HANDS-ON LAB: Testing for brain imbalances
  • Cognitive style profile
  • Hemispheric list
  • Postural hemispheric examination
  • Cranial nerve exam

• Develop specialized hemispheric-Balance restoration using a treatment that is based on science
• CASE STUDY: A patient with dyslexia, learning difficulties and retained primitive reflexes.

POLYVAGAL AND ATTACHMENT SYSTEMS, HEMISPHERIC IMBALANCE

• Understanding attachment and behavior
• Learn how to relate attachment to movement, and how it affects your whole life.
• How attachment is made possible by the brain hemispheres
• Functional neurology of human behavior and relationships
• HANDS-ON LAB: The adult attachment inventory can be used as a diagnostic tool
• HANDS-ON LAB: Target functional neurological networks for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
• CASE STUDY – Patient with ADHD and reactive attachment disorder

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