Professionals and Parents
Many professionals–including those in the fields of occupational therapy, physical therapy, and mental health–have applied the neurodevelopmental movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations courses to facilitate profound changes for clients of all ages. Therapists find that implementing these movements results in multi-dimensional progress, as well as client goals being met quicker than average. See our dedicated pages for OTs, PTs, and Mental Health Therapists that include inspiring case studies.
In this emotional video, a mother of three describes the extreme sensory and regulation challenges her oldest son faced, and the violent outbursts and meltdowns that ruled their family's life. They had tried numerous interventions, without improvement. By spring of 2nd Grade their son completely refused to go to school, and they had no hope of life ever getting better for their family.
When Sonia Story, M.S. came to speak at the school, the parents decided to try rhythmic movements and reflex integration, and discovered that this was the foundational work their son had needed all along.
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Hear how occupational therapist Kelli Meer used innate rhythmic movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations program to help a preschooler with cerebral palsy dramatically improve his gait in just one session. He went from dragging his foot with each step to lifting his foot fully off of the ground when he walked out of the treatment room after the therapy session. She has also helped this client regain eating independence, via development of his pincer grasp, using Brain and Sensory Foundations techniques.
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This occupational therapist used techniques from the Brain and Sensory Foundations course to help a client who experienced extreme nausea and dizziness. The 70-year-old woman had been bed-bound for nine months, and could not sit up or even roll over without vomiting. Watch this video to hear about how just three days of neurodevelopmental movements completely changed her life.
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This public school teacher used simple rhythmic movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations® program to drastically improve reading levels in all of her students. Some of these children began Second Grade reading at the Kindergarten level, but by the end of the year the entire class was reading at—or above—grade level!
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This mother shares how she used rhythmic movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations course to transform the life of her 5-year-old son, who faced challenges despite years of occupational therapy, professional programs, and sensory diets. Just three days after starting rhythmic movements, Eric showed remarkable progress—playing independently, sleeping better, and staying calm without the need for lengthy sensory activities. Now, at 11-years-old, Eric continues to benefit from rhythmic movements: enhancing his focus, imagination, and social interactions.
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This mother saw huge changes in her son who exhibited distractibility, messy eating, severe coordination issues, low muscle tone, and poor organizational skills after using neurodevelopmental movements and primitive reflex integration from the Brain and Sensory Foundations® program.
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This school-based OTA/L with over 25 years of experience highlights how using the innate rhythmic movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations course can help young children reduce highly rigid behaviors, severe toe-walking, and perching in chairs. These children had shown little progress with previous therapeutic interventions. She shares how, as a result of the movement intervention, the children quickly became adaptable, and able to sit and walk properly.
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School-Based Occupational Therapy Assistant Peggy McCahan unlocks speech in a young boy using reflex integration from Sonia Story’s Brain and Sensory Foundations® program. This child, who had previously received speech therapy, went from no speech to full speech in less than one school year!
Runtime: 2 minutes, 40 seconds
Mental health therapist Kathy Schnebly explains how to change behavior, reduce family conflict, and address trauma better and more quickly using the innate movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations® program. She shares great results seen in children with trauma histories as well as neurological disorders.
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This physical therapist with over 30 years of pediatric experience shares her remarkable success using innate rhythmic and reflex integration movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations course for a wide-range of clients, including children with: torticollis, developmental delay, and cerebral palsy.
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This school-based OTA/L did passive rhythmic movements from the Brain and Sensory Foundations course daily for 4 minutes with each of her students, in a self-contained classroom. The children received no other occupational therapy services, and in one quarter they had all made significant progress on their OT goals.
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Reflex integration and simple innate movements done for just a few minutes a day dramatically improved handwriting, oral reading fluency, sensory processing and more in a 2nd grade boy and other clients of this veteran occupational therapist using activities from the Brain and Sensory Foundations First Level course.
Runtime: 2 minutes, 35 seconds