Finding Gentle, Brain-Based Support

If your child has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), or cortical visual impairment (CVI), you may already be navigating a long list of therapies and medical appointments.

Many parents describe feeling both overwhelmed and hopeful. They want to give their child every opportunity to grow, yet worry about pushing too hard or missing something important.

This is where NeuroMovement® can make a difference.

NeuroMovement® for

Cerebral Palsy,

HIE, PVL, and CVI

Why These Diagnoses Feel OverwhelminG

Children with CP, HIE, PVL, or CVI
often face challenges such as:

  • Muscle tightness, stiffness, or spasticity

  • Difficulty with balance, coordination, and movement

  • Visual processing struggles that affect learning and interaction

  • Fatigue and frustration during daily activities

  • Pressure to “catch up” with peers through repetitive drills or exercises

Traditional approaches often focus on strengthening or stretching specific muscles.

The traditional approach overlooks the most powerful driver of change: the brain.

NeuroMovement® practitioner Phoebe MacRae works with client’s arm to relieve muscle pain.

What Parents Notice

Families often report meaningful changes in their child after NeuroMovement® lessons, such as:

  • More relaxed and fluid movement

  • Increased ability to participate in play and daily activities

  • Improved tolerance for handling, transitions, and social situations.

  • Greater comfort in their body, with less effort and strain

  • New sparks of curiosity and engagement

These changes may seem small at first, but they open doors to larger developmental shifts over time.

Why Traditional Approaches are Limited

Many therapies and supports do provide help.

But parents often share a quiet unease when interventions focus too heavily on compliance or repetition.

The goal can feel like making a child act “normal” instead of honoring who they truly are.

Autism is not a mechanical problem to be fixed.

It is a different way of experiencing the world.

And your child’s brain is capable of remarkable growth when given the right conditions.

That is where NeuroMovement® comes in.

How NeuroMovement® Works

Social, communication, and behavioral challenges in autism are all rooted in the functioning of the brain.

Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® upgrades the functioning of the brain by providing the conditions and the information it needs to change.

The method uses a natural body/brain process to create new learning and new brain wiring.

This new wiring helps children with autism encounter and relate to the world differently.

Some common outcomes parents notice include:

  • Improved sensory processing, motor skills, strength, coordination, balance, and stability

  • Development of interpersonal relationships, including more eye contact and connection

  • Improved attention and concentration, with increased focus and organization skills

  • Higher self-esteem through mastery of physical movement

Child holds arms above head while NeuroMovement Practitioner Phoebe MacRae gently guides child to build new brain-body connections.

Notes from a Mom

After NeuroMovement® lessons, one parent shared these changes she noticed in her child with autism:

  • Eyes lifting up for hugs or to be picked up

  • Looking across the room to make contact

  • Walking movements with feet while lying down

  • Saying “no” more — beginning to assert himself

  • Turning toward or away from things with more intention

  • Moving toward something of interest (including Mom)

  • Playing independently with a toy

  • Greater tolerance of everyday sounds like the dishwasher, washer, dryer, and running water

These may sound small on paper, but to a parent watching new possibilities emerge, they are deeply meaningful signs of growth.

Why Gentleness Matters

Children with neurological diagnoses are often asked to work very hard just to accomplish simple movements.

This can be exhausting for both child and parent.

NeuroMovement® takes a different path.

Lessons are gentle, respectful, and designed to reduce effort rather than increase it.

By working with the brain instead of against the body, progress is natural and sustainable.

NeuroMovement® is different.

Every lesson is about creating safety, curiosity, and possibility.

We slow down.

We explore.

We meet your child exactly where they are,

without judgment.

And from there,

growth unfolds

naturally.

Explore NeuroMovement® for Your Child

If you are feeling exhausted by the daily challenges of autism,
or you are looking for an intervention option that is
brain-friendly, respectful, and joyful,
I invite you to explore NeuroMovement®.

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(971) 266-1911
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