RICHTER ACTIVE INTEGRATION RESOURCES
  • Home
  • Richter AIR courses
    • MORE course
    • Using Gravity
    • King of Swings
    • Exploring Sensory Integration
    • 1st RAIR Symposium Program
    • 2nd RAIR Symposium Program
    • 3rd RAIR Symposium
    • 4th RAIR Symposium >
      • A. Exploring SI
      • B. Using Gravity
      • C. Power of Breath
      • D. STEP SI
      • E. Function from the Inside Out
      • F. AIM for Function
    • 5th RAIR Symposium >
      • A. Power of Breath
      • B. Touch for Health
      • C. ARFID Training
      • D. AIM for Early Development
      • E. Complex Factors
      • F. Advanced Energy Work
      • G. Beyond the Hand
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Policies
    • Links
  • RAIR Symposium Information
    • Exhibitors
    • Disclosures
Follow us

Emotion to Motion

10/17/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
As this course has evolved it now includes a strong integrating component called oral core. This portion of the course proves powerful for tapping into the breath and oral area with the emotion of autonomy (will or intention). It involves reaching with eyes, ears, mouth, head, neck, and torso. The mouth and core of the body move as a team initiated by basic human intention. By devising games (activities) using an oral grasp and reach approach, the child can connect with powerful neurological pathways and begin integrating skills through patterns of infancy that are presented in the games. Learners will have the opportunity to experience the process in labs.
Picture
The games were created to provide functional and age appropriate ways to organize the breath, torso, hyoid, tongue, lips, cheeks, eyes, hands around the original center - the mouth.  Regulation, autonomy, power, determination, rhythm, grading, discrimination, direction sense, praxis, and sustained attention have an opportunity to develop into a more mature state.

Reflexes of the motor, tactile, oral, ocular systems are developing simultaneously.  These activities are created to move a child through them by keeping the mouth the leading appendage of the body and playing between the expression of the reflex patterns to accomplish a goal.
Picture
The games were set up with an element of repetition to provide the practice a body needs to establish or re-establish the basic wiring of the breath, eyes, mouth, hand with the sensory systems for discrimination and praxis. The use of all systems can be expanded or shrunk to best meet the child’s “just right” challenge.  

Oral motor programs to reduce defensiveness and develop control are used with these activities if needed and some children may require that type of program prior to working with these games. Clinical reasoning on the practitioner’s part will be needed to further modify these for each child.
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    General
    Housekeeping
    Occupational Therapy
    Occupational Therapy
    Physical Therapy
    Physical Therapy
    Speech Therapy
    Symposium Sessions
    Symposium Sessions

    Archives

    January 2018
    November 2017
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013

    RSS Feed

Richter Active 
Integration Resources
651-705-6799
Stillwater, MN

Contact Us

Join our mailing list
Proudly powered by Weebly