Signs of Retained Reflexes
The signs of neuromotor immaturity (neurodevelopmental delay) may include:
All children display signs of nervous system immaturity as they grow but usually by the age of seven or eight, these signs have gone. Some children may have very mild symptoms, which continue beyond eight years of age, but they learn to compensate, and all is well.
However, in some children, for some unknown reason, the nervous system does not fully mature and so the complete development of the nervous system is absent, diminished or delayed. This has knock-on effects proportional to the type and degree of immaturity and can cause some of the signs listed above.
If you know that your child struggles with any of these areas, please click here to see how I can help.
To see if neuromotor immaturity may be the cause of your child’s difficulties, complete and submit my INPP Screening Questionnaire
There is more information on this site about neuromotor immaturity (NMI) in the primitive and postural reflexes, and a description of the possible effects of having retained, or under-developed, reflexes. Click on the ‘Primitive Reflexes‘ or ‘Postural Reflexes‘ pages.
My 10 year old son has been transformed by doing the INPP programme with Katy. He is happier, on a different track developmentally, and it has opened up many new options and opportunities for secondary schools.
It has been SO encouraging to see G’s coordination and balance improve over the course of this last year. He has been able to do things that we never thought he would manage! Also great to have Katy on the end of the phone (or email) if we needed her advice about how the exercises were going.
She was always available to answer any questions we had. I’m only sorry we didn’t hear about Reflex Reset earlier and couldn’t have worked through this programme with our boy sooner.
