{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Podcast Shorts from the Disability Labs Podcast Network","title":"TWGPC 015: How to help students with the MORO/startle reflex?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":270,"description":"Hey, everybody, this is Cheri Dotterer from The Writing GlitchI have been having such a crazy week.I am currently sitting in my car watching it downpour and I wanted to take this time and stop driving and just talk with you for a few minutes.We have been talking the last couple of weeks on the primitive reflexes.I talked about the ATNR and the STNR and then I talked about the spinal galant and spinal pereze and I really wanted to stop and really talk a little bit about the and the Marea really is a startle reflex.It's the reflex that lets babies be alert that they're moving.It is the one that allows us to respond to sudden noises.But it's the way that we respond when we're older that helps us break out of the marrow reflex.So what happens in the marrow is your arms, go back, your shoulders, go back, your head goes back and you kind of back away.And if that happens in a typical situation, more than just a kind of a, a jump where everything gets thrown back, imagine what happens with the kids, if something sudden happens to them in the classroom where they're startled and the MORO reflexes of taking over they're going to be pulling back away from the chair or the desk and, and their arms are going to go back and they're not going to be able to engage for a while in the classroom until the reflex relaxes.So, if you've got kids that are holding their arms back for an extended amount of time and it doesn't make sense, maybe it's a startle reflex.So what about these kids out on the playground?If we've got a startle reflex going on, they may have a difficult time playing on the play gym because they're constantly pulling their arms back and their head back.And so they can't coordinate their arms and they might have trouble crossing midline, they might have trouble alternating their body parts to march and things like that because the startle reflex kind of kicks in and puts them in this almost like a statue state.And so think about the those kind of reactions with the,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rTw68mhc6vUTm6wcZ9t55VH6T3W5HBly92fB1yWkwzk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84M2Ri/YjhlYjRhM2NiOTE3/Mjc4NzRjZjYwZDJi/YWJmMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}