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 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
- 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 hand-eye co-ordination
- Poor gross and fine motor skills
- Difficulty learning how to swim/ride a bike
- Clumsiness/accident prone
- 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
- Can't cope with change/must have things a certain (their) way
- Poor motivation and/or self esteem
- Depression, anxiety or stress
- Behavioural, self esteem and motivational problems associated with the above
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