The Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® uses simple, gentle movements and focus to help any child who has been diagnosed with learning delays, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, cerebral palsy or other developmental disorders. By shifting the focus to connecting rather than fixing, this powerful yet simple approach helps both children and parents de-stress, focus and grow. Most of all, it helps children maximize their potential, no matter what their diagnosis.

I’ve experienced incredible outcomes with children with brain trauma at birth, global developmental delays, sensory integration dysfunction, and so on by helping them build a better brain to make sense of their world.

NeuroMovement® works by communicating with the brain of the child to facilitate the formation of new neural connections and patterns, irrespective of the child’s current limitations.

Movement and awareness are the primary tools a practitioner uses to communicate and upgrade the brain to bring about the potential for learning and change. Change often presents itself in a number of ways, such as better movement, balance and coordination, increased focus, reduced anxiety and so on. By upgrading the entire system the child learns to perceive finer and finer differences which is an essential for learning.

NeuroMovement can help children with cerebral palsy, brain injury, autism spectrum disorders, sensory integration dysfunction, brachial plexus, torticollis, scoliosis, ADD/ADHD, chronic anxiety, balance and coordination issues, limited movement and spasticity, and recovery from injury or surgery. 

Through a series of learning events every child can experience transformational change. Whether the child has special challenges or not, expect limitless possibilities. Today discoveries in neuroscience of the remarkable ability of the brain to change has helped to explain why approaches like Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® and the Feldenkrais Method® have been so successful over the past 3 decades, rehabilitating children and improving their lives by putting them on paths of learning as functional movement becomes easy and possible.

Lorrie treats each child as unique and creates a lesson plan to fill in foundational movements with a schedule that suits the child and the parents. There is no rigid amount of lessons required, she prefers to work together to discover the frequency to keep the child on a path of progression. Often an intensive series of 4-8 lessons over 2 to 4 days can be of great benefit to integrate new skills at the beginning. Lorrie has had great success with school aged children doing a series of lessons over a weekend and is happy to work exclusively with children 1 weekend a month.   

The use of Sound Therapy for healing goes back many centuries as sacred chant in India and Tibet, and by all major religions.

In the 1950s and 1960s Sound Therapy, or Audio Psycho Phonology (the psychology of speech and hearing) was developed by the French ear specialist, Dr. Alfred Tomatis in France. Working first with singers and patients with industrial deafness, he then extended his field to include children with auditory processing problems related to dyslexia or autism.

Tomatis demonstrated that while ear and brain performance can be damaged by noise, it can also be improved by the right sort of sound.

Since the 1980s our understanding of brain plasticity has developed Sound Therapy in new directions. The method has been applied by thousands of individuals and professionals to relieve ear related disorders that are affecting communication, stress, hearing and balance.

When using the home based self training Sound Therapy programs it is simply a matter of listening, through headphones, during daily activities or sleep to low volume music which reconditions the auditory system.

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