Every child is born with a midline barrier. This is the inability of the eyes to track across the body. Normal daily physical activities help the eyes integrate and track smoothly from left to right and right to left.

There’s more to having good balance than meets the eye, sorry no pun intended. Having good balance allows someone to sit in a chair and focus on many school related tasks (reading, writing, copying work, test taking, etc.).

A major contributing cause of these ADHD symptoms in at least 75% of the cases is a specific reflex--the Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflex (STNR). The behaviors caused by an interfering STNR are the same as most of the behaviors that are classified as ADHD symptoms.