Margaret Glenney
The Sensory Centre, USA
Title: The language of hearing: auditory and vestibular disorders and their rehabilitation in children on the spectrum
Biography
Biography: Margaret Glenney
Abstract
There are both symptomatic and electrophysiological indices that support abnormal auditory and vestibular processing in children with a host of educational and psychological labels. In addition, there is a plethora of historical evidence of retained primitive reflexes in children with educational and reading problems. Recently, the work of McPhillips , Blythe and Goddard, and Moller , and classically the work of Hallowell Davis, taken in combination have suggested: 1. hat the phylogenetically older and sometimes referred to as the non-classical or “lower” auditory pathways are operative in children but not in adults, 2. That this ‘lower” pathway can be modulated by somatosensory input, 3. That many children with labels of all sorts harbor retained primitive reflexes that are modulated by the brainstem, and 4. That physical movement activities have been shown to “calm down” and integrated these primitive reflexes with concomitant observed amelioration of symptoms associated with autism, ADD, ADHD and other similar educational and psychological labels