WHAT ARE PRIMITIVE REFLEXES?

At Neurodiverse Playhouse Brisbane, we understand how challenging it can be when your child struggles with developmental delays, emotional dysregulation, sensory sensitivities, or focus issues. If your child is often overwhelmed, anxious, or has difficulty calming down after emotional outbursts, primitive reflex integration therapy could be the key to helping them thrive and improve their quality of life.

Primitive reflexes are automatic, involuntary movements that infants develop in the early stages of life. These reflexes are essential for survival, helping babies with basic functions like feeding, breathing, and crawling. As children grow, these reflexes are meant to integrate and fade, allowing for more voluntary and controlled movements as they develop.

However, when these primitive reflexes do not integrate fully, they can disrupt a child’s normal development. For children with autism, ADHD, or other neurodiverse conditions, retained primitive reflexes can contribute to challenges in emotional regulation, focus, sensory processing, coordination, and more. This can make it difficult for your child to engage with others or participate in everyday activities.

Children with autism often struggle with retained primitive reflexes, which can lead to difficulties in:

• Emotional dysregulation: Anxiety, frustration, or trouble calming down.
• Focus and attention issues: Difficulty concentrating or completing tasks.
• Sensory overload: Sensitivities to lights, sounds, or textures.
• Coordination and balance issues: Impairing motor skills and physical activities.
• Impulsivity and hyperactivity: Disrupting behaviour and emotional control.
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By addressing these retained reflexes through primitive reflex integration therapy, we can help your child overcome these challenges, enhancing their emotional, social, and cognitive skills.

Children with autism often struggle with retained primitive reflexes, which can lead to difficulties in:

• Emotional dysregulation: Anxiety, frustration, or trouble calming down.
• Focus and attention issues: Difficulty concentrating or completing tasks.
• Sensory overload: Sensitivities to lights, sounds, or textures.
• Coordination and balance issues: Impairing motor skills and physical activities.
• Impulsivity and hyperactivity: Disrupting behaviour and emotional control.
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By addressing these retained reflexes through primitive reflex integration therapy, we can help your child overcome these challenges, enhancing their emotional, social, and cognitive skills.

At Neurodiverse Playhouse Brisbane, our approach is designed to help children integrate primitive reflexes through targeted sensory motor exercises. By addressing both neurological and physical development, we support your child in overcoming developmental challenges and achieving better emotional regulation, focus, and coordination.

Here’s how our therapy can help your child:

Improved Emotional Regulation

As primitive reflexes integrate, children often experience a significant reduction in anxiety and frustration, allowing them to manage their emotions more effectively. This helps children with autism and other neurodiverse conditions to feel more regulated in their daily interactions.

Better Focus and Attention

Integrating primitive reflexes can enhance concentration, leading to better academic performance and more positive social interactions. Children who struggle with focus and attention often see improvements in their ability to stay engaged and complete tasks.

Stronger Motor Skills and Coordination

Our program strengthens core muscles and enhances motor coordination, which helps children feel more confident in physical activities and everyday tasks. By improving balance and physical coordination, we support your child’s development in both the classroom and at home.

Improved Sensory Processing

Children who struggle with sensory sensitivities often experience greater comfort and ease in their environment after primitive reflexes are integrated. This therapy can help children with autism process sensory information more effectively, leading to less overwhelm and greater comfort in daily situations.

At Neurodiverse Playhouse Brisbane, we take a comprehensive approach to therapy, combining primitive reflex integration, sensory motor activities, core strength exercises, and emotional regulation strategies. This holistic method is designed to address both the neurological and physical aspects of your child’s development.

We create a personalised therapy plan tailored to your child’s unique needs, empowering them to overcome challenges related to autism, focus, emotional dysregulation, and sensory sensitivities. By integrating these therapeutic methods, we help your child develop essential skills, improve motor coordination, and build emotional resilience, allowing them to thrive in both academic and social settings.

If your child is developmentally delayed, struggles with focus, experiences emotional dysregulation, or faces sensory overload, primitive reflex integration therapy could be a transformative step in supporting their growth and development. At Neurodiverse Playhouse Brisbane, we specialise in helping children with autism and other neurodiverse conditions overcome developmental challenges and achieve better emotional regulation, focus, and coordination.

Retained primitive reflexes can interfere with a child’s ability to process sensory information, regulate emotions, and maintain focus. By integrating these reflexes through targeted therapy, we help children improve their motor coordination, emotional resilience, and ability to focus. This can lead to significant improvements in your child's daily life, from school to social interactions.

If your child exhibits any of the following, primitive reflex integration therapy might be the solution you’re looking for:

• Developmental delays or difficulties reaching key milestones.
• Focus issues, including challenges with attention in academic or social settings.
• Emotional dysregulation, such as anxiety, frustration, or trouble calming down after emotional outbursts.
• Sensory overload, being easily overwhelmed by lights, sounds, textures, or other environmental factors.

Are you wondering if primitive reflex integration therapy is the right fit for your child? Book your free discovery call today! Our team at Neurodiverse Playhouse Brisbane is here to discuss how we can help your child unlock their full potential and improve their focus, emotional regulation, and overall well-being.