Patching and Vision
Mar 04, 2023
HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD SEE BETTER
When your child's vision can be over-looked by their lazy eye. When a child has muscles-tone issues, it's assumed that a turned in eye can seem normal. However, at the same time, when a visual immaturity is combined with issues with movement, it can effect your development. Patching can help with your child's amblyopia or "lazy eye."
- Exam: Make sure you have a good visual examination using a retinoscopy. Your child's lazy could be due to an astigmatism, acuity (visual power), and/or their axis.
- Efficiency: Typically a parent is told patching involves covering the stronger eye with a patch for a certain amount of time each day, which forces the weaker eye to work harder and develop better vision. Movement Lesson™ patching is about using patching with efficiency. First, to see how each eye sees and where you can catch your child's vision.
- Ease: Purposeful patching should be done in short burst where your child is...
Atypical Development Baby and the Vestibular System
Feb 24, 2023
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Atypical Development Baby Developing Into Cerebral Palsy
Feb 16, 2023
If you are a worried parent when it comes to your child's optimal development, then you probably should be.
For whatever reason, everyone is telling you that "your baby is fine, and you need more time to tell if there are potential problems, so don't worry and just enjoy your baby."
But you can't do this because you know something is off.
You want to be proactive in your child's optimal development, not reactive.
That being said, you don't know how to do that when every professional is telling you that "your baby is fine, and let's just wait and see."
Here are 6 action steps you can take today to put your child on the path of their optimal development no matter what their future holds.
Action Step #1:
Check your child for the quality of their rotational movements with our FREE course, the NEWBORN MOVEMENT ASSESSMENT (for ages 0 to 99 yrs old). The more rotational movements a child has, the less likely they are to have cerebral...
31 Parent Tips For Being Proactive in Optimal Baby Development
Jan 17, 2023
1.Provide a safe and stimulating environment for the baby to explore.
2. Encourage physical activity and play to promote gross motor development.
3. If your baby favors looking to one side talk to your pediatrician. It could be torticollis. Learn more in our free torticollis course. CLICK HERE
4. Read to the baby daily to promote language and cognitive development.
5. Interact hold and play with your baby, they learn development from your movements the more you interact with them.
6. If you feel like your baby is behind in their development, get the Movement Lesson Baby Milestone Momentum Chart. CLICK HERE.
Did you know this Firs Baby Milestone?
You think it's 'Lying Down' but it's their Absolute Horizon
For a parent to assume our development when it can be attained and manipulated by oneself and others through a cognitive process without knowing where that being has originated...
7 Causes of Back Arching in Infants and Babies
Jan 11, 2023
Back arching in babies is NOT a normal part of their development. It can be a serious early warning sign of atypical development that shows the child's inability of being able to control and coordinate their movements.
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7 Causes of Back Arching in Infants and Babies
1. Torticollis
Torticollis, also known as "wryneck," is a condition in which the neck is twisted and tilted to one side. This can be caused by a variety of factors, including muscle spasms, injuries, or congenital abnormalities.
There are two types...
10 Reasons to Start Early Movement Intervention with Your Child
Jan 06, 2023
You are worried about your child's development and everyone is telling you that your baby is okay, when you feel like they ARE NOT!
The reality is, you don't know whether or not you should be worried.
That being said, while a child normally won't qualify for early intervention services until they are over 50% delayed in their development, you don't have to wait for 50% developmental delay to help your child.
You can help your child today with Early Movement Intervention with Movement Lesson.
Here are 10 reasons to start Early Movement Intervention with your child:
- Early movement intervention can help identify developmental delays or disabilities on the first day you try it. Your child can be a day old, 24 months old or older. This gives you the power to give your child the developmental experiences needed and maximize your child's potential.
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Early movement intervention gives you the skillset you need to teach your...
Head Lag Reflex - How Not to Put Your Child Into Sitting
Dec 16, 2022
Baby Sitting Myth:
Starting in month 4 (or whenever he holds his head up well and seems interested and ready), you can prop your baby up to sit with support and give him an amazing new vantage point on the world around him. Help your baby develop neck and head control by making a game of pulling him up to sit.
Baby Sitting Movement:
By the fourth month, your baby enjoys tummy time and rolling over. They can see you and others through close up and movement. They are able to visually follow, grab, and release a toy. They babble and are getting ready to grab their feet, cross midline, and go in and out of airplane position as they play on the floor. You are not even concerned with head control.
Your baby's 'head control' comes from their pelvis. As they can counter from side to side through the pelvis in tummy time. Their pelvis goes to the floor and their head rises.
Baby Sitting Developmental Warning Sign:
When a baby is on their tummy, when their...
Baby Army Crawling Not Normal and Why Visual
Nov 24, 2022
Is this optimal crawling development?
NOPE, but I know how to work with it.
From day one of birth, I knew that my baby would struggle with milestone development because of the Newborn Movement Assessment.
Here my baby is 9 months old.
Rolling over would have been almost impossible for her, let alone getting into some type of crawling.
Again is this optimal crawling for her development, NO.
I am going to be told, "this is normal for babies," "yours will figure it out," "my baby did that, and he turned out fine," "all babies develop differently, this is nothing to worry about."
I have seen too many cases where all these are giving false hope to parents who have a child that really needs help with their development on a small or severe level.
The problem is that my baby looks TOO GOOD to get the help she needs for optimal development.
I don't want fine, I want the best for her development!
In this video, it...
Babies Born in Space and Baby Development and Milestones
Nov 05, 2022
What would it take to have a baby born in space?
One thing is for sure, there is not the opportunity for variables in development like there is on earth.
Gravity is such an important part of how a baby develops, and it is almost completely ignored in a child's development.
Gravity seems to only come into play when a child is starting to develop scoliosis at a later age.
A child's interaction with gravity should be evaluated on the first day of life.
When this evaluation is given, a parent or professional can have the blueprint of what that child's development will look like without intervention.
Now there are two types of intervention parents have on their babies without even knowing it, the first is movement intervention and the second is movement restriction intervention.
Without knowing it, parents give their children a lot of movement restriction intervention.
This includes:...
Are there Apps for CVI - 6 Things You Need to Know
Sep 28, 2022
How do you know if apps for your child's CVI are helping or hindering Your Child's visual development?
Working with a tablet can seem like the perfect idea for your child to get some visual interaction. This is the time you are working with YOUR CHILD. But just remember that, visual stimuli doesn't necessarily mean you are working on visual functions.
Here are some things to avoid or supervise when using a Ipad or tablet for Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI):
1- Does your child have binocular vision?
Do both eyes work together? If the answer is no or sometimes, then you want to limit tablet time. This close vision with no depth perception does not bring the eyes to synchronized vision.
2- Does your child have weak convergence?
If so, then they also have weak binocular vision. It's impossible to work with depth perception or convergence with the tablet. If anything, it can...