June 26, 2019 - Autism
Hey folks, it’s Dr. Sam. I received a question today: would the primitive reflex movement therapy that I offer be helpful for kids who are diagnosed with autism?
It just so happens that I’m working at the institute today, the Kid Power Institute in Albuquerque. This is a therapy that I use all the time. So what it does is it helps integrate our early reptilian responses, the survival responses that we all feel when we’re under stress. Especially with these children. When you integrate the primitive survival reflexes, they become more available to learn in their cognitive brain. Their executive function tends to heighten. And this is what we want. We want them to soften our survival responses.
So this is a great therapy in the overall treatment of kids with autism.