Article date: November 2025 When it comes to supporting children with neurodevelopmental challenges, small changes in the right direction can make life-changing differences. Photo: Sharik Peck and Lara Barnes This case study, shared by Lara Barnes, a Melillo Method certified practitioner, illustrates how integrating primitive reflexes and supporting vagus nerve function can dramatically improve focus, behaviour, and emotional regulation. And through her work and discussion on the Rezzimax...

When we think about child learning development, we often focus on milestones: first words, reading, writing, emotional maturity. But underneath all those achievements lies something deeper: the foundation of the nervous system itself. Just like a house, your child’s brain is built brick by brick. The lower levels — the reflexes, sensory processing, and early movement patterns — form the base. If these foundations aren’t solid, the upper levels of thinking, learning, and behaviour can wobble....

Neuroscience has long understood that in order for the human brain to function together, large areas of the brain with the left and right hemispheres, use electrical impulses to communicate through short and long range connections.Each hemisphere performs different functions that allow us to react to the world in which we live. Research has shown that when the two sides of the brain do not mature at the same rate, the electrical impulses between the the two sides get out of balance and...