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Child Hugging Parent

When everything looks fine… but isn’t
 

Your child is bright, but still struggles with learning,  focus, coordination or emotional regulation.

Let's look beneath the surface to see whether retained primitive reflexes may be affecting your child.

You may notice things like:

Physical symptoms

  • ​​Bed wetting beyond age 6 

  • Clumsiness

  • Dyspraxia

  • Motion sickness

  • Photosensitivity

  • Poor posture

  • Poor spatial awareness

  • Walking on toes

  • Tics

Emotional difficulties

  • ​​​Hypersensitivity

  • Mood swings

  • Poor impulse control

  • Anger and aggression issues

  • Withdrawn, timid behaviour

  • Low self-esteem

  • Difficulty relating to their peers/making friends

  • Angel at school, demon at home

  • Attachment and separation issues

Learning difficulties

  • Coordination difficulties

  • Dyslexia

  • ADHD 

  • Poor concentration

  • Poor organisational skills

  • Poor handwriting

  • Poor short-term memory 

  • Sequencing difficulties

  • Dyscalculia

  • Difficulty conceptualising

  • Slowness at copying tasks

  • Translating thoughts into words on paper

Brain

Many clients come with diagnoses such as ADHD, autism, or dyslexia. Others come without labels, but experience similar challenges across learning, coordination, attention, or emotional regulation.

Regardless of diagnosis, neuro-developmental therapy focuses on supporting the nervous system foundations that sit beneath these difficulties.

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By working with the body and integrating retained reflexes, children develop

greater ease in movement, learning and everyday life.

How neuro-developmental therapy works

The nervous system underpins how we learn, move, regulate emotions and respond to everyday life.

When these foundations haven’t fully matured, children can come under constant pressure. This may show up as difficulties with learning, coordination, attention, emotional regulation or anxiety.

Neuro-developmental therapy supports the nervous system through simple tactile input and specific movement exercises that help integrate retained reflexes and improve the brain and body’s ability to work together.

A boy balancing on his father's shoulders, illustrating the importance of balance, coordination and connection.

Development builds
from the bottom up

Higher skills such as attention, emotional regulation and learning rely on strong
sensory and movement foundations underneath.

Explore the full Developmental Pyramid →

The building Blocks Of Learning

Ali, Southampton

​“The bite size exercises were easy to incorporate into our daily life and we began to see him calming down and managing so much better within a few months.”

Mandeep, Berkshire

"Before we started the programme, my son had very basic and functional speech, with a lot of rigidity around his OCD - particularly with stopping and transitioning from one task to another. Since then, we’ve seen significant gains in these areas, along with real progress in his motor skills at school..."

Georgia's mum, Portsmouth

“She began to be able to focus at school, to organise herself better. For the first time, I went to a parents' evening and heard positive remarks.”


Explore real stories of change → 

Understanding how these reflexes shape development

These reflexes are the body’s built-in movement patterns that create the foundation for

balance, coordination and emotional regulation.

Primitive reflexes appear first; postural reflexes take over as the nervous system matures.

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"Our rightful place as educators is to be removers of hindrances. Each child in every age brings something new into the world from divine regions, and it is our task to remove bodily and psychical obstacles out of his way, to remove hindrances so that his spirit may enter in full freedom into life."

 

Dr. Rudolf Steiner addressing the Waldorf teachers at the Oxford Course

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Moni Lebon is a Neuro-Developmental Therapist trained with Bob Allen at Access Potential and a Johansen IAS provider, working with families in London, Windsor, and Kings Langley.

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