VIDEO: Bridgehampton Chiropractor’s Autism Therapy Yields Success
The Autism News | English
Fifteen years ago Dr. Richard Kelly, a chiropractor in Bridgehampton, began a program designed to help children with developmental disorders along the autism spectrum. Dubbed “Maximum Potential,” it is a therapy program that aims to improve the social and focal behavior of children through the strengthening of the brain.
Maximum Potential combines cortical plasticity, a method of improving the brain’s pathways that may be deficient, with physiological adjustments that seek to improve the way the brain connects to the senses and the rest of the body.
The therapy consists of sensory and cognitive exercises that combine postural and spinal adjustments, aerobic and hand-eye coordination exercises and reflex activity.
“When the brain is in deficit we see challenges to behavior, hyperactive[ness], aggressiveness,” Kelly said. “The challenge is the ability to function and stay on task. Instead of just listening to the teacher and performing, they start to twitch around, fidget, they are easily distracted, irritable…they are not gleaning what the teacher is presenting and subsequently not learning.”
In addition to his full-time chiropractic practice, Kelly treats about 10 children in the “Maximum Potential” program out of a small office on Suwassett Avenue. The sessions last 20 to 45 minutes depending on the child’s abilities to focus.
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