Gross Motor Skills

Gross Motor Skills

Gross Motor Gains with Primitive Reflex Integration

Integrating the primitive reflexes may build gross motor skills in individuals who experience issues with motor planning, coordination, gait, flexibility, or muscle tone. The success stories below demonstrate potential benefits to gross motor function from innate rhythmic movements and primitive reflex integration.

All case studies are written by students of the Brain and Sensory Foundations First Level course.

Toddler scooting on floor. Text: See Before and After Video!

Delayed Toddler Goes from Only Scooting on Bottom to Walking After 4 Weeks of Innate Sensory-Motor Intervention

Smiling boy eating with spoon. Text: Improvements in motor skills, sensory Processing, and oral function.

Drooling and Fine Motor Issues Resolve with Reflex Integration

Girl in wheelchair with back to camera. Text: Great progress for 12-year-old girl with Cerebral Palsy!

Easier Wheelchair Transitions and Huge Gait Trainer Improvements for 12-Year-Old with Cerebral Palsy

Preschool boy working on an art project with classmates. Text: No more echolalia or W-sitting

Echolalia Disappears, Social and Motor Skills Improve

Happy boy riding bike. Text: Explosive anger resolves, no longer prisoners to meltdowns.

Explosive Anger Resolves, No Longer Prisoners to Meltdowns

Boy vacuuming. Text: Boy has no more fear of vacuum noise.

Extreme Sensitivity, Motor Skills, and Social Skills Improve

Boy joyfully tossing autumn leaves. Text: Decreased self-stim and aggression in 3 weeks!

From Aggressive to Giggly and Playful -- Rhythmic Movements and Reflex Integration Make a Big Difference for 5-Year-Old Boy

Girl smiling into camera. Text: Dismissed from speech therapy! Huge physical and academic success!

From IEP to all As and Bs on Report Card

Young girl eating an orange slice. Text: From moderate to minimal assistance with ADLs in 4 weeks!

From Moderate to Minimal Assistance with ADLs in 4 Weeks

Girl walking away from camera. Text: Happier and walking again.

From Wheelchair to Walking in 4 Months

Pre-teen girl holding volleyball. Text: Help for Severe Sports Injury

Girl with Pain from Concussion Finds Relief after Movements from Brain and Sensory Foundations

OT looking at teen boy in wheelchair. Text: Help with head-banging and motor skills for teen with CP

Head Banging Greatly Reduced After Reflex Integration

Boy and mom laughing together. Text: Parents and OT are "Blown Away" at fast progress for 7 year old boy.

Head-Slapping and Thumb-Sucking Stop, While Fine and Gross Motor Skills Improve

Smiling boy sculpting with playdoh. Text: "It's like having a different kid."

Highly Anxious 7-Year-Old Separates from Mother, Gains Balance, and Develops Nice Handwriting

Boy practicing martial arts. Caption: Parent report major changes in teen son.

Huge Improvements in Focus, Balance, Handwriting, and Organization for 13-Year-Old Boy

Girl balancing on playground equipment with the help of her dad. Text: Mom of girl with ASD: "I see progress almost every day."

Improvements in Speech, Motor, Vision, Social-Emotional — After One Year, “a Completely Different Child”

Smiling boy running in autumn leaves. Text: OT measures "Extraordinary Progress" for preschool boy.

In 12 weeks, At-Risk 4-Year-Old Boy Scores at Age Level on Beery Visual-Motor Test

Young boy playing with Legos. Text: Video—Delayed toddler makes huge gains.

Less Flapping and Mouthing, More Eye-Contact, Smiling, Eating, and Playing with Toys

10-year-old girl looking to the right. Text: From daily disruptive behavior to “calm composure”

Life-Changing Strides in Gross-Motor Skills, Visual Processing, and Participation in School

Photo of boy watching giant bubbles float above him. Text: Sensory & Behavior Improves.

Movement Helps Sensory & Behavior for 9-Year-Old

Young boy climbing a tree. Text: Discharged from OT after three months of rhythmic movements and primitive reflex integration!

No More Aggressive Outbursts, Huge Change in 3 Months

Boy smiling into camera. Text: Boy stops toe walking.

No Toe Walking for the First Time after Less than a Week of Rhythmic Movements

Boy jogging away from camera. Text: Parents are Delighted in Son's Progress with Body.

OT Focuses on Reflex Foundation, Builds Focus, Strength, Self-Regulation, Pencil Grip

Boy resting in quadruped. Text: Bedwetting—Mom is thrilled with progress.

OT Learns Simple, Effective Tools to Help with Bedwetting for 7-Year-Old

Boy looking into camera. Text: Increased strength, fine motor, no more oral sensory seeking!

OT Stunned by 4-Year-Old's Progress

Boy joyfully flinging his arms out while playing in a field. Text: "His physical therapist was in disbelief!"

OT Uses Playful Reflex Integration to Help Boy with DCD

Giggling boy cuddling with mom. Text: Fine-motor improves to age-expected level.

Parents and Therapist Impressed with 5-YO Boy’s Large Improvements in Short Time

Curly-haired toddler joyfully running across grass. Text: Doctor say, "It's a miracle!"

Premature Baby in ICU, Walks at 18 Months with the Help of Innate Rhythmic Movements and Reflex Integration

Young girl clinging to mother's leg. Text: From shy and scared to talkative and confident.

Preschooler Improves Social Skills and Reaches Gross Motor Goals with Primitive Reflex Integration

Girl in a wheelchair playing with lap board. Text: Girl with CP no longer fearful.

PT Assistant Says: “It’s Hard to Believe” the Huge Impact of Reflex Integration


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