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Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Exercise: An Interactive Guide to the Moro Reflex for Parents, Teachers, and Service Providers
Are you a parent, teacher or service provider looking for effective resources to help and improve a child's development?
Are you strapped for time?
Would you like a guide of 5-10 minute step-by-step therapeutic exercises that can be done in the classroom, home or playground?
Recognizing the need for effective and universally accessible auxiliary therapy programs, author, parent, and occupational therapist, Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, created a must-have guidebook for anyone seeking a simple way to enhance their child’s therapeutic exercise routine with easy-to-follow, home-based activities.
Get the e-book now on Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Therapeutic An Interactive Guide to the Moro Reflex for Teachers, Patents, and Service Providers by Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L.
Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the Moro Reflex plays in childhood development, this hands-on instructional guide offers parents and providers an invaluable tool for integrating therapeutic exercises into a child’s natural environment and compassionately understanding the developmental challenges related to it.
Inside you will
Explanation of the primitive reflexes and how to identify “integrated” and “retained” reflexes in your child or student
Symptoms checklist
Simple and fun exercises
Treatment plans geared toward occupational therapists in the clinical setting
Letter of support and guide to parents
Glossary of clinical terms
In as little as 10 minutes a day of regular practice and observation, these fun and creative exercises will enable caregivers to enhance their child’s development, support integration of the Moro reflex, and painlessly gather invaluable information about the child’s performance outside the clinical setting.
This book is perfect for any parent or professional working with children who experience motor delays, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, learning or behavioral challenges, or just anyone who wants to help support a child’s development.
Empower yourself today with stress-free tips and tricks to make the greatest impact on a child who is learning their place in the world.
Are you strapped for time?
Would you like a guide of 5-10 minute step-by-step therapeutic exercises that can be done in the classroom, home or playground?
Recognizing the need for effective and universally accessible auxiliary therapy programs, author, parent, and occupational therapist, Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, created a must-have guidebook for anyone seeking a simple way to enhance their child’s therapeutic exercise routine with easy-to-follow, home-based activities.
Get the e-book now on Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Therapeutic An Interactive Guide to the Moro Reflex for Teachers, Patents, and Service Providers by Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L.
Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the Moro Reflex plays in childhood development, this hands-on instructional guide offers parents and providers an invaluable tool for integrating therapeutic exercises into a child’s natural environment and compassionately understanding the developmental challenges related to it.
Inside you will
Explanation of the primitive reflexes and how to identify “integrated” and “retained” reflexes in your child or student
Symptoms checklist
Simple and fun exercises
Treatment plans geared toward occupational therapists in the clinical setting
Letter of support and guide to parents
Glossary of clinical terms
In as little as 10 minutes a day of regular practice and observation, these fun and creative exercises will enable caregivers to enhance their child’s development, support integration of the Moro reflex, and painlessly gather invaluable information about the child’s performance outside the clinical setting.
This book is perfect for any parent or professional working with children who experience motor delays, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, learning or behavioral challenges, or just anyone who wants to help support a child’s development.
Empower yourself today with stress-free tips and tricks to make the greatest impact on a child who is learning their place in the world.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 19, 2019
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About the author
Kokeb Girma McDonald
7 books10 followersKokeb Girma McDonald is a pediatric occupational therapist, a service provider and parent consultant, and a best-seller author to the Reflex Integration Through Play (RITP) book series. She has extensive, 15+ years of hands-on experience working with children from diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down Syndrome, Learning Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, Global Delays, Dyslexia, ADD / ADHD, Sensory Integration Dysfunction, Neuromuscular Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury, and other developmental challenges. She creates treatment tools and resources to educate service providers and parents in a step-by-step clinic, home, and classroom activities, to help improve a child's development and functional skills.
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September 2, 2023
Great book for parents
If you were told your child's primitive reflexes haven't fully integrated, this is a great book to help! It explained things easily enough that I could understand and feel able to help my son try the activities.
If you were told your child's primitive reflexes haven't fully integrated, this is a great book to help! It explained things easily enough that I could understand and feel able to help my son try the activities.
October 2, 2021
Clear, Simple, Helpful
As the parent of a child with multiple retained reflexes and as a parent educator working with families struggling to acheive smooth sleep or potty training, I am finding this series very helpful. The books offer clear and concise explanations of retained reflexes in general and each one specifically, how it affects daily functioning and exercises to integrate them. A very quick read! Now to implement...
As the parent of a child with multiple retained reflexes and as a parent educator working with families struggling to acheive smooth sleep or potty training, I am finding this series very helpful. The books offer clear and concise explanations of retained reflexes in general and each one specifically, how it affects daily functioning and exercises to integrate them. A very quick read! Now to implement...
August 22, 2020
Helpful resource. I frequently give activities for home programs. The guide and handouts in the book are easy to follow and give clear explanations. Highly recommend!
January 24, 2022
Very helpful for practioners and parents!
I'm a physical therapist working in the Early Intervention world and I see a lot of little guys and gals who have unintegrated reflexes. My Littles are younger than probably what thus book targeted, but I could already think through how I could modify several things to my younger kiddos just by this book having such great pictures for reference. I am going to read through the others in this series and will keep these handy in my therapist "toolbox."
I'm a physical therapist working in the Early Intervention world and I see a lot of little guys and gals who have unintegrated reflexes. My Littles are younger than probably what thus book targeted, but I could already think through how I could modify several things to my younger kiddos just by this book having such great pictures for reference. I am going to read through the others in this series and will keep these handy in my therapist "toolbox."
October 29, 2022
straightforward, easy to follow
My son had learned to do the popcorn exercise from the OT. I didn’t realize it was for the moro reflex specifically. He was given other exercises, which are probably for other retained reflexes. I was interested in adding some variety. Most of these exercises are doable at home with minimal equipment. The last few must be done at the OT’s office with special props.
The drawings, explanations and layout of the book are excellent. I will be getting other books in the series as well.
My son had learned to do the popcorn exercise from the OT. I didn’t realize it was for the moro reflex specifically. He was given other exercises, which are probably for other retained reflexes. I was interested in adding some variety. Most of these exercises are doable at home with minimal equipment. The last few must be done at the OT’s office with special props.
The drawings, explanations and layout of the book are excellent. I will be getting other books in the series as well.
January 5, 2021
Good quick reference
Helpful tips for activities to address reflex integration. Great resource for entry-level practitioners. Useful illustrations that make activity suggestions clear.
Helpful tips for activities to address reflex integration. Great resource for entry-level practitioners. Useful illustrations that make activity suggestions clear.
May 14, 2022
amazing resource
Being a parent of 2 kids with CP, I found this book to be so simple yet so informative and interactive. It can so easily be implemented plus I love the fact that we know which goal we are working towards.
Being a parent of 2 kids with CP, I found this book to be so simple yet so informative and interactive. It can so easily be implemented plus I love the fact that we know which goal we are working towards.
December 21, 2020
Very helpful
This book hours beyond Duck/Pigeon and contains lots more information that just how to integrate the Moro reflex. I'm looking for the next book!
This book hours beyond Duck/Pigeon and contains lots more information that just how to integrate the Moro reflex. I'm looking for the next book!
July 17, 2022
Great Resource For Older Kids
This is a great resource with clearly outlined activities. However it feels like most of it won’t work for my young child. It would be great to see an undated version of this with modifications or different activity ideas for really little kids.
This is a great resource with clearly outlined activities. However it feels like most of it won’t work for my young child. It would be great to see an undated version of this with modifications or different activity ideas for really little kids.
June 4, 2024
This book is very informative and easy to read. However, most of the visuals would not display on my Kindle.
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July 5, 2025In the book, only exercises are presented—there’s not much theory or explanation of reflexes, not even a demonstration of how to test them. But perhaps that’s exactly what you’re looking for.
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