Welcome to Building Bridges. I specialize in neurodiverse programs targeting the Executive Functions, working with all age ranges. These include: The Davis programs, The Compass program, Equipping Minds, and Study Skills Boot Camps.

 

The Davis programs are designed to help individuals on the Autism Spectrum and anyone experiencing Executive Functioning issues by filling in the missing conceptual (ideas), behavioral, and social concepts necessary to succeed in life. Exploring concepts such as change, consequence, time, sequence, order-and-disorder, we gain a greater understanding of the world around us and learn how to create order in our environment and in our thoughts. Working through this program we discover how perceptions, thoughts, and emotions play a major role in self-motivation and identify needed skills to take responsibility for our day to day activities. During the social concepts we identify four different types of relationships people experience while socializing with others, and the different behavior patterns that affect the relationship. Other key components to the program include establishing order in the environment, creating new orders of behavior in areas where someone is stuck, and complete a set of responsibility exercises to build confidence while integrating this new information.

 

We discover the concepts (Ideas) in three ways. First by having a conversation around the concept and what it means. Next, we use plastilina clay to discover each concept for a multi-sensory learning experience, then explore and connect the concept (the idea) to real-world experiences for future thinking and behavior development.

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The Compass program is a Developmental Neuromotor Movement-based program which strengthens and builds new neural connections in our nervous system, the command center for the mind (cognitive ability) and body (motor planning). During this program we focus on integrating the primitive and postural reflexes, the building blocks responsible for completing each stage of development within the early years of life which give aid in the development of our executive functioning skills. When reflexes remain open or unintegrated, the next stage of development is hindered, disorganization occurs, and learning becomes difficult. Areas that are impacted by retained reflexes are: speech (speaking & verbalizing thoughts), auditory (hearing) and visual (seeing) processing, cognition (thinking, remembering, judging & problem-solving), focus and concentration, movement (motor planning), vestibular activity ( balance and eye movements), behavior, dyslexia (reading), dyscalculia (math), dysgraphia (writing), timing, sequencing, spatial reasoning (where I am in space), working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. From infancy movement is designed to be the catalyst for all learning and development. 

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The Equipping Minds and the Study Skills Boot Camp pages are under construction. Information coming soon.