Parent Testimonials

Below are a selection of parent testimonials.

Testimonial One - Letter From Parent

Dear Peter,
Way back in 2002, when my son was 12, we came to you in desperation. John was at the point of being asked to leave his school and had been labelled disruptive and uncooperative. You met him, assessed him then sent us away to discuss what you had told us. Feeling a bit concerned about how John had taken the news of his dyspraxia, I asked him how he felt about what you had said. His reply still moves me, he said 'I feel recognised for the first time'.

From then we spent three years travelling up and down from London to Chester and spending every evening on the floor of the study (the only carpeted room!) following the exercises Jane Sexton set John. It has been amazing! First John learnt to travel in water - swim. He has since learnt to ride a bike, write legibly and easily and so much more. He is a transformed young person. There is no sign of many of his retained neonatal reflexes, the ones that remain leave only a trace, perceptable because I have developed and eagle eye. He is a very gifted young person and gained 12 GCSEs at A and A* and 3 A's and a B at A level. He has excelled in his music - saxophone, piano and voice and is off to study Biology at Bristol this autumn. I cannot imagine what would have happened to John if I had not perchance seen that programme on the television about dyspraxia and recognised the awkward physical movements the children displayed. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

What I can't understand is why the education and health systems do not seem to take on board the effects of retained neonatal reflexes. I frequently come across adults and young people whose lives are proscribed by this condition and who are unaware that they can do something about it. Education and health services only offer 'bandaid' advice about coping with the symptoms and fail to link the various syndromes. Well, you know that better than I...

I teach a radical drawing course to young people and adults that is based on the left and right brain processing of information. It is while teaching that I come across many people who are physically disabled, unable to look and draw, unable to hold a pencil because of their undiagnosed and untreated retained neonatal reflexes. I would like to be able to advise and help these people appropriately and would also like to approach secondary schools to offer help to young pupils caught in the neonatal reflex web.

Testimonial Two - Post From A Parents Blog

This posting isn't about classics, SF or anything (popular) cultural, and is really only aimed at anyone looking up the INPP in Chester, or the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology to give it its full title, using a search engine. This organisation, run by Peter Blythe and Sally Goddard Blythe, helps children with developmental disorders (such as ADD, Aspergers and dyslexia). Their treatment consists of an exercise programme which is adjusted every 6 weeks or so. It is based on the premise that some children don't lose their baby reflexes and thus fail to develop adult reflexes. This is associated with poor concentration, and problems with social interaction, amongst other developmental problems. I'm not a scientist so my ability to evaluate the theories is pretty limited. However I was immediately struck on my first visit by my son's extreme difficulty in carrying out simple little exercises involving balance and coordination. It was very clear to me on subsequent visits that these skills were improving considerably. At the same time there was a marked improvement in his social skills and concentration. Of course I can't prove the correlation between these changes and in fact on our last visit Peter Blythe said that some of the improvement would probably have come about naturally without the treatment. But my feeling is that the exercises have indeed helped Henry. Certainly I am convinced of the integrity of the INPP - everything they say is internally coherent and they are very open about everything - for example PB made an audiotape of the long review session which took place early in the treatment for us to keep. And if you are (or are thinking of becoming) an INPP client do try Politic on Chester's picturesque 'Rows'. Really consistently excellent and friendly restaurant