Psychomotor patterning
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Psychomotor patterning, rarely referred to as the Doman-Delacato technique, is a
intellectual disabilities, brain injury, learning disabilities, and other cognitive diseases.[1] The treatment is based on the largely-discredited[1] hypothesis that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
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The method assumes that intellectual disabilities result from the failure of an individual to develop properly through the
homolateral stage, a healthy child typically crawls by turning the head to one side while extending the arm and leg of the opposite side. The patterning treatment is applied to those unable to perform this motion, and involves passive intervention by 4-5 adults who assists the child in an effort to impose or induce the proper pattern onto the central nervous system
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The therapy normally lasts for 5 minutes and is repeated at least 4 times a day. Full treatment programs typically contain a range of exercises combined with
breathing exercises designed to increase oxygen flow to the brain, and systematic restriction and facilitation designed to promote hemispheric dominance.[citation needed
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The treatment modality of patterning was developed in the 1960s by Glenn Doman and Carl Delacato.
See also
References
- ^ a b Novella, Steven (February 9, 2008). "Psychomotor Patterning: A Critical Look". Quackwatch.
Further reading
- Ziring, Philip R.; Brazdziunas, Dana; Cooley, W. Carl; Kastner, Theodore A.; Kummer, Marian E.; González De Pijem, Lilliam; Quint, Richard D.; Ruppert, Elizabeth S.; Sandler, Adrian D. (1999). "The Treatment of Neurologically Impaired Children Using Patterning". Pediatrics. 104 (5): 1149–51. PMID 10545565.
- Johnson, Dan (July 21, 2004). "Will Baby Crawl?". National Science Foundation.
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