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Applications in Neurodevelopment: Addressing Stimming, Repetitive Behaviors and Toe Walking in Individuals with Autism through MNRI Reflex Integration. Part 2.
Applications in Neurodevelopment: Addressing Stimming, Repetitive Behaviors and Toe Walking in Individuals with Autism through MNRI Reflex Integration. Part 2.
From the first conceptualizations of autism as a disorder, restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities (RRBIs) have been included as a core feature, along with hallmark social and communication problems. RRBI symptom manifestation varies significantly within and between individuals with autism but can generally be divided into two broad subcategories – repetitive sensory and motor behaviors and insistence on sameness.
This lecture is a continuation of a previous MINDS Group lecture focusing on the first of these subcategories – repetitive sensory and motor behaviors.
In our previous lecture, we emphasized motor stereotypies. In the current lecture, explore sensory processing differences, such as tactile defensiveness, auditory discrimination challenges, and sensation seeking as a result of reflex development delays.
This lecture begins with a research-based overview of the eight sensory systems, followed by discussion of proposed classification systems, hypothesized causes and relationships to other RRBIs, developmental trajectory, and approaches to intervention.
Children with autism commonly present with behavioral challenges as a result of atypical reflex development profile and sensory processing development.
The lecture includes a parental experience on her son's progression with MNRI® intervention and a professional perspective on how MNRI® can affect changes in a child's behavior.
The brief theoretical underpinning of MNRI® for modulating territorial instinctive behaviors and hyper is included, along with a demonstration of selected neuromodulating techniques.
Lecturers:
Dr. Amy Watson-Grace, MOT, OTD, OTR/L, BCP and MNRI® Core in Training
Yichien Su, MS-CCC, SLP and MNRI® Core Specialist
Video Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes, 26 seconds.
