Chana Miro, OTD
m0527190606@gmail.com
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Neuro FLEX
Reflex Integration Therapy
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Development Guidance for
All Ages
Primitive reflexes are automatic movements present in infancy that typically fade as the child grows. When these reflexes are retained beyond the expected age, they can impact physical, emotional, and cognitive development.
Navigating your child’s developmental journey can be challenging but also deeply rewarding. With the right support, parents can help their children build a solid foundation for growth in coordination, learning, and emotional well-being.
Reflex integration is one of many valuable treatment approaches to support foundational development, and each step forward—no matter how small—brings your child closer to reaching their full potential.
SERVICES
Reflex Integration Therapy Sessions
Weekly Sessions
Occupational therapy for reflex integration includes:
Playful activities that involve various sensory motor experiences to challenge the child's sensory processing abilities.
These activities promote the development of new neurotransmitters and improve communication between both sides of the brain, boosting your child's independence and success.
INFO
Development in Motion
Reflexes are involuntary movements or actions. Some movements are spontaneous and occur as part of a baby's normal activity. Others are responses to certain actions. They are an indication that the brain and nervous system are working well. Some reflexes occur only in specific periods of development. While others last a whole lifetime.
Reflex Integration
An approach that is used mostly by occupational therapists (OTs), physical therapists, and some developmental specialists.
It focuses on helping children (and sometimes adults) reduce or “integrate” retained primitive reflexes that did not naturally fade during infancy.
Primitive Reflexes
Are automatic, involuntary movements present in newborns. They originate in the brainstem and help infants survive and develop early motor skills. Most primitive reflexes disappear (are integrated) as the child’s brain matures—usually within the first year of life.
Brain Asymmetry
The human brain is not perfectly symmetrical. Each hemisphere specializes in certain types of processing, and their physical shapes and sizes differ slightly.
Functional Asymmetry: Each hemisphere handles different tasks more efficiently:
Left hemisphere → language, logic, analytical tasks
Right hemisphere → spatial awareness, intuition, emotional processing.
Hemispheric Activation Asymmetry:
Differences in how active each side is at a given time. Examples: More left-frontal activity is linked with approach behaviors and positive emotion.
More right-frontal activity is associated with withdrawal responses and negative emotion.
Functional
Disconnection
Primitive reflexes are controlled by lower brain regions. As the cortex matures, it “inhibits” these reflexes, This natural process is called integration.
If cortical development is uneven, delayed, or unbalanced - The inhibition may be incomplete.
When reflexes remain active, they can interfere with higher skills, such as:
→ balance
→ attention
→ posture
→ reading/writing
→ emotional regulation
and much more...
TESTIMONIALS
Recommendations
"Clinically innovative and academically grounded…brings a refreshing, hopeful, and scientifically responsible approach to the field of childhood neurological disorders.”
Leah Davies, M.Ed.
Early Childhood Education
" Chana is one of those rare individuals who can unlock some of those unsolvable mysteries of behavior and development.
This unique, groundbreaking, and research-based approach to improving brain function introduces the process of unlocking each child’s potential."
Prof. Gerry Leisman, MD, PhD.
National Institute of Brain Rehabilitation Science University of Haifa
“Dr. Melillo has unraveled the mysteries of brain organization and translated what we know into simple, practical therapeutic regimens to allow all of our children to reach their unlimited potential. He has produced a message of hope for parents of children, with clear, consistent, and significant results.”
How It Works
The Melillo Method™
Brain Balance Program
The Melillo Method specifically targets the central nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system by stimulating specific areas of each side of the brain. Helping you to build and develop new neural-pathways.
Using a combination of Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Reflex Integration.
Accompanied with Neuro-behavioral learning techniques, and Micronutrient counseling.
