Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Exercise: An Interactive Guide to the Spinal Galant Reflex

by Kokeb Girma McDonald

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 Spinal Galant Reflex by Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, the fifth in the Reflex Integration Through Play book series.

Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the Spinal Galant 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

This book is perfect for professionals working with children and adults with retained primitive reflexes, specifically the Spinal Galant Reflex. Clients, who experience motor delays, postural issues, bladder control, vestibular challenges, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, and learning & behavioral challenges can all benefit from primitive reflex screening and treatments.

Healthcare professionals can also benefit from this TherapistsPhysical TherapistsSpeech TherapistsPilates InstructorsYoga InstructorsTeachers and educationalService providersParents

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2023

About the author

Kokeb 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.

Reviews

[Maria Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent tools for therapists.

I love all the books in this series and this one does not fail to deliver. As a therapist who tests for unitegrated reflexes I love the ideas that make the activities more playful. Not all children will enjoy and do snow angels well but this offers a range of different activiites. This book gives me ideas on how I can extend my practise. It has some wonderful tools such as the checklists that can be downloaded too.
As parent of a child with SPD I also love this book as I can use the activities at home easily and this is a great resource for parents wh can't access OT but please be wary of trying to treat a reflex without being assessed. I think the author has done a great job to bring this resource to parents but also to drive home the importance of a proper evaluation. Great job

[Kari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful addition to my OT practice!

I love learning more about primative reflexes and how they affect development, learning, and cognition. I have practiced MNRI techniques and have seen how powerful reflex integration is! I am so thankful that Kobeb written this book in an easy to understand way for families and therapists alike, and has also designed these exercises so that they can be done playfully and families can easily follow the same program at home. I highly recommend not only this book, but the others in the series!

[Tera Timmons · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Winner

Kokeb has done it again! This is an easy to follow book that will help therapists, care givers, and teachers develop programs for their children and clients that will keep them engaged and having fun while integrating the Spinal Galant Reflex. You can tell how much time, passion, and love has gone I to this series. I’m grateful for another resource I can use with my clients and my own children!

[Christina Swendra · Rating 5 out of 5]

another great resource for our clinic

Another amazing resource to address increasing skills, strength, and coordination and improve functional independence! I have all your books and game and use them often in our clinic setting to make exercises and therapy FUN! Thank you Kokeb!!