Neuro FLEX

Reflex Integration Therapy
&
Development Guidance for
All Ages

Primitive reflexes are automatic movements present in infancy that typically fade as the child grows. When these reflexes are retained beyond the expected age, they can impact physical, emotional, and cognitive development.

Navigating your child’s developmental journey can be challenging but also deeply rewarding. With the right support, parents can help their children build a solid foundation for growth in coordination, learning, and emotional well-being.

Reflex integration is one of many valuable treatment approaches to support foundational development, and each step forward—no matter how small—brings your child closer to reaching their full potential.

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Change Your Brain,
Change Your Life.

ADHD - Anxiety - Learning Disorders - Processing Disorders - Working Memory - Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Autism Spectrum Disorder - Behavioral Issues - Struggling Kids...
~Growth & Potential~

SERVICES

Reflex Integration Therapy Sessions

Services

Weekly Sessions

Occupational therapy for reflex integration includes:
Playful activities that involve various sensory motor experiences to challenge the child's sensory processing abilities.
These activities promote the development of new neurotransmitters and improve communication between both sides of the brain, boosting your child's independence and success.

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Workshops

New upcoming Childhood Development series for parents.

Learn how to support your child's learning and growth.

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INFO

Development in Motion

Reflexes are involuntary movements or actions. Some movements are spontaneous and occur as part of a baby's normal activity. Others are responses to certain actions. They are an indication that the brain and nervous system are working well. Some reflexes occur only in specific periods of development. While others last a whole lifetime.

Reflex Integration

An approach that is used mostly by occupational therapists (OTs), physical therapists, and some developmental specialists.
It focuses on helping children (and sometimes adults) reduce or “integrate” retained primitive reflexes that did not naturally fade during infancy.

Primitive Reflexes

Are automatic, involuntary movements present in newborns. They originate in the brainstem and help infants survive and develop early motor skills. Most primitive reflexes disappear (are integrated) as the child’s brain matures—usually within the first year of life.

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Brain Asymmetry

The human brain is not perfectly symmetrical. Each hemisphere specializes in certain types of processing, and their physical shapes and sizes differ slightly.

Functional Asymmetry: Each hemisphere handles different tasks more efficiently:

Left hemisphere → language, logic, analytical tasks

Right hemisphere → spatial awareness, intuition, emotional processing.

Hemispheric Activation Asymmetry:
Differences in how active each side is at a given time. Examples: More left-frontal activity is linked with approach behaviors and positive emotion.

More right-frontal activity is associated with withdrawal responses and negative emotion.

Functional

Disconnection

Primitive reflexes are controlled by lower brain regions. As the cortex matures, it “inhibits” these reflexes, This natural process is called integration.
If cortical development is uneven, delayed, or unbalanced - The inhibition may be incomplete.
When reflexes remain active, they can interfere with higher skills, such as:

→ balance
→ attention
→ posture
→ reading/writing
→ emotional regulation

and much more...

TESTIMONIALS

Recommendations

Leslie Phillipp Weiser, M.PH., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

"Clinically innovative and academically grounded…brings a refreshing, hopeful, and scientifically responsible approach to the field of childhood neurological disorders.”

Leah Davies, M.Ed.

Early Childhood Education

" Chana is one of those rare individuals who can unlock some of those unsolvable mysteries of behavior and development.

This unique, groundbreaking, and research-based approach to improving brain function introduces the process of unlocking each child’s potential."

Prof. Gerry Leisman, MD, PhD.

National Institute of Brain Rehabilitation Science University of Haifa

“Dr. Melillo has unraveled the mysteries of brain organization and translated what we know into simple, practical therapeutic regimens to allow all of our children to reach their unlimited potential. He has produced a message of hope for parents of children, with clear, consistent, and significant results.”

How It Works

The Melillo Method™
Brain Balance Program

The Melillo Method specifically targets the central nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system by stimulating specific areas of each side of the brain. Helping you to build and develop new neural-pathways.

Using a combination of Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Reflex Integration.
Accompanied with Neuro-behavioral learning techniques, and Micronutrient counseling.