Great Leaps Therapy
Sensory Motor Integration Therapy for Children and Adults
About Me
Patricia Hadley, P.T., graduated from Southwestern University Medical School, Allied Health Div., in 1983. She received SIPT certification and NDT certification. She further trained at Ayers Clinic in California. Previous work includes Director of Physical Therapy in a hospital-based rehabilitation unit and founding her private practice with a primary focus on pediatrics and rehabilitation. Her clinic provided PT, OT, and SLP services for twenty-three years. The clinic's specialty and innovative therapy were recognized on a Dateline NBC segment. Speaking engagements have included a paper presented in England on the vestibulo-cochlear system's impact on learning and nervous system organization at the 10th European Conference on Learning Disabilities. She subsequently traveled to train European delegations. Her first book was published on July 10, 2023. Researcher and Author Sally Goddard Blythe has reviewed 'A Field Guide to Sensory Motor Integration', stating it is just right for the purpose. "It is concise, clear, easy to follow, and a great resource for practitioners and parents." At Great Leaps, it is important to know that the aim is to free up individuals for a wider repertoire in life, so that previously elusive skills and goals can be achieved. It is important to note that "great leaps" can occur at any age or point in life, and it is never too late to identify difficult areas and begin the journey.
Specialized Sensory Motor Integration
Evidence-Based Intervention for Learning Difficulties
Enhanced Quality of Life
Comprehensive Support for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Reflex Integration
Certain developmental reflexes, when not integrated by around the first year of life ,have been identified to detrimentally influence normal development of higher level skills and abilities. These immature reflexes, when present are not under volitional control, they are automatic movements that previously served a developing fetus and infant to survive and to learn to move. When they remain, they interfere with normal mature development and skills. At Great Leaps Therapy, they are identified ,and expert work then begins to integrate and heal. Integration provides the path to higher level skills and mature desired motor abilities and responses.
Sensory Motor Integration Therapy for Children and Adults
At Great Leaps Therapy, we focus on the cause and not the SYMPTOM. The cause is the REASON someone may not have developed and demonstrated certain skill abilities. Primary CAUSES can be attributed to delays in Reflex Integration and Vestibular system function. The goal in therapy is to attain a sate of ready state of attentiveness and organization to move, see, hear, touch, taste and feel. This is when motor learning and healing takes place for all our muscles, even for our eyes, mouth and ears, thereby storing sensory motor experiences for acquiring new skills. Using a neurodevelopmental sensory integrative approach, we exercise the vestibular /cochlear system with movement and exercises for trunk muscles, arms, legs, eyes, ears and mouth.
Sensory Integration
Sensory integration: Normal sensory integration is the correct processing of sensory input the brain receives. When the brain receives sensory input incorrectly, the result is incorrect output and incorrect feedback. This is termed Sensory integrative dysfunction. Both reflex integration and vestibular system function impact sensory integrative functioning. Symptoms calling for therapy intervention by working on the real CAUSES can include the following difficulties: Balance Coordination/Eye hand Motor Planning Bilateral Coordination/Coordination of both sides of the body Hemispheric specialization Toe Walking Clumsiness Organization Attention, alertness regulation and motivation Visual motor skills/visual perception, both eyes must work together in a smooth coordination manner to follow a line for reading and remembering what is read. Academic problems despite all best conventional efforts Difficulty with mood difficulty with transition and new experiences Difficulty with intersensory processing: this includes tactile defensiveness,, oral hypersensitivity, limited food preferences, intolerances to certain smells and food textures. Sound sensitivity,: sound overload, loud noises, noisy environments or even the sound of one's own voice( contributing factors here can be from reflexes interfering with with a reflex in the ear to filter sound. Delays or impairments in fine and gross motor skills.
Vestibular System Function supporting Sensory Motor Integration
Vestibular System Function supporting Sensory Motor Integration. A well organized Vestibular system is a well organized brain. The vestibular system's influence is vast throughout the central nervous system. In tandem, it influences reflex integration maturation, our mood, our state of attentiveness and wakefulness , balance, perception movement awareness and all levels of motor skills. Receiving direct input, the eye muscles receive signals from the vestibular system. We test for vestibular system function as it relates to sensory and motor function and from those findings, implement successful treatment.
Sensory Integration
Reflex Integration
Neurodevelopmental Treatment for Traumatic Brain injury and Cerebral Vascular Accident
Sensory Motor Integration Therapy for Children and Adults
Vestibular System Function supporting Sensory Motor Integration
Our Services
Neurodevelopmental Treatment for Traumatic Brain injury and Cerebral Vascular Accident
Damage to the Cerebral Cortex or Brainstem can result in substantial loss of independence due to motor function loss and impairment. Hadley holds expert Neurodevelopmental treatment Certification in this area of rehabilitation and over 30 years experience providing this skilled area of rehab.