About Reflex Integration Through Play™️

RITP is a treatment planning and implementation method based on child development and reflex integration progression, with a play-based approach that’s fun and easy to implement.

What is Reflex Integration?

Primitive reflexes are foundational, yet involuntary movement patterns that are present at birth and become integrated or “dormant” before a child reaches 12 months of age. Most reflexes become integrated into a pattern of movement after infancy, so more mature and voluntary movements can emerge.

When reflexes do not become integrated, they interfere with a child’s ability to develop an appropriate foundation for stability and mobility. A child without integrated primitive reflexes learns faulty and maladaptive movement patterns.

You must address retained reflexes in your client to make a lasting change and bridge the gap in their development. You, the trained therapists can observe these faulty responses by how a child reacts, behaves, and moves and address this interference in reflex integration to help the child recreate activities a typically developing child would have performed to integrate reflexes.

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This is Kokeb, pediatric OT, author, mentor, mother, and creator of Reflex Integration Through Play. It’s our mission to help kids develop into their healthiest selves and I hope you’ll join us on the journey!

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What is Reflex Integration Through Play?

Reflex Integration Through Play™️ is a fun, easy-to-use method to address retained primitive reflexes in a functionally-focused way. Designed with kids in mind, it starts with functional goals (like handwriting, social interaction, playground activities, etc.) and assesses the impact retained primitive reflexes may have on that goal. RITP practitioners then create and implement a measurable treatment plan consisting of activities designed to help integrate those reflexes to support the functional goal.

The activities within RITP are designed to be fun, centered around every child’s favorite occupation (PLAY!), and easy to modify for kiddos with any level of needs.

Use RITP in your OT/PT clinic to advance the development of your clients, in the classroom to help regulate energy levels and improve focus, or at home as a part of a carry-over program with your service provider.

Learn about our RITP Certification program for service providers.

The Reflex Integration Through Play™️ Certification Program

Learn RITP’s unique method for primitive reflex integration, focused on functional goals, while you build your career as a therapist.

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Books

Kokeb is the best-selling author of the Reflex Integration Through Play book series. Get the whole series here on our website or check them out on Amazon.

Videos

Kokeb’s YouTube channel is a great resource for parents and service providers alike looking to learn about reflex integration.

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