Learning Delays

SIGNS OF NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY

Research in the U.K. and Sweden, has shown that retained primitive reflexes may impede subsequent behaviour, motor control, sensory perception,
eye-hand co-ordination, and cognition. Neuro-developmental delay is a term which describes the presence of a cluster of aberrant reflexes because of an omission or arrest of a stage of early development. Certain combinations of retained reflexes exhibit themselves in ways that affect emotional and social well-being and academic progress.

Signs that your child might be suffering from a neuro- developmental delay are:

• Dyslexia or Learning Difficulties, especially reading, spelling and comprehension
  

• Poor written expression
  

• Poor sequencing skills
  

• Poor sense of time
  

• Poor visual function/processing skills
  

• Slow in processing information
  

• Attention and concentration problems
  

•  Inability to sit still/fidgeting
  

•  Poor organisational skills
  

•  Easily distracted and/or impulsive
  

•  Hyperactivity
  

•  Hypersensitivity to sound, light, or touch
  

•  Dyspraxia/Speech problems and Language delays
  

•  Motor, co-ordination and balance problems
  

•  Poor posture and/or awkward gait
  

•  Poor handwriting
  

•  Poor spatial awareness
  

•  Poor hand-eye co-ordination
  

•  Poor gross and fine motor skills
  

•  Difficulty learning how to swim/ride a bike
  

•  Clumsiness/accident prone
  

•  Slow at copying tasks
  

•  Confusion between right and left
  

•  Reversals of letters/numbers and midline problems
  

•  History of difficult birth
  

•  History of brian injury or damage
  

• Quick temper/easily frustrated/short fuse
  

• Bedwetting past 5 years of age
  

• Motion sickness
  

• Can't cope with change/must have things a certain (their) way
  

• School Phobia
  

• Poor motivation and/or self esteem
  

• Depression, anxiety or stress
  

• Behavioural, self esteem and motivational problems associated with the above