CME THERAPY
‘Developmentally compromised infants and children need to reinforce their natural recovery potential and activate their genetic code that could lead them into motor freedom.’
Chilean physical therapist, Ramon Cuevas has dedicated the last 40 years of his profession developing Cuevas Medek Exercises (CME). CME is widely recognised as a leading therapy across the globe for children with developmental challenges.
Ramon’s goal as a physical therapist is ‘to create a method of exercises that will provoke the automatic response from the motor delayed children, in spite of their neurological damage and level of awareness.’
Traditional approaches to paediatric therapy is to provide as much support as possible in order to lessen the labour of moving, which makes the children repeat motor functions they are already able to do. Children with developmental delays leaving them unable to sit, stand and walk on their own are able to find a way of becoming more independent through the use of CME therapy. Suitable for children 3 months and older, this therapy utilises the force of gravity to provoke.
CME is built on four key pillars which question the use of traditional therapy through exposing children to new stimuli. These pillars are:
- Provoke the appearance of absent motor functions
- Provoke the automatic responses of functional-postural motor control
- Exposes the body segments to the influence of gravity
- Promotes the use of distal support rather than hand-to-hand contact or use of walkers
Children with developmental delays leaving them unable to sit, stand and walk on their own are able to find a way of becoming more independent through the use of CME therapy. Suitable for children 3 months and older, this therapy utilises the force of gravity to provoke.
CME is able to be delivered as ongoing, intensive or a combination depending on your child’s needs and goals.
AUTISM SWIM
Children with Autism is 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers with 90% of deaths in children under the age of 14 with ASD are a direct result of drowning
Autism Swim is a specially designed program to teach children and adults living with Autism the fundamentals of water safety, water awareness and basic swim skills. The program has been carefully developed by a team of speech pathologists, autism specialists, psychologists and occupational therapists and can facilitated by physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, occupational therapists and swim instructors.
This program has the ability to take children living with Autism through vital water safety principles from the ‘simplicity’ of having a child comfortable with being in water or having their head submerged through to teaching strokes. The program is designed to allow individuals with all communicative needs the capacity and ability to participate through the use of visual and sign language.
Autism Swim therapy is available through Bounce Abilities at a variety of local pools across the Shoalhaven and Illawarra regions.