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Facial motor reflexes first appear in infancy and remain active throughout life, supporting a broad range of needs essential to:
Human survival, including breathing, rooting, eating and general neurovascular function
Accessing and managing visual, auditory, and other sensory system input
Different coordination systems in different combinations – hand, mouth, ear, eye, tongue, neck, and
cranial coordination systems
Nonverbal (emotional expressions and cognitive activity) and verbal communication (articulation)
Facial reflexes not only affect function in the facial area, they also affect function though out the whole brainbody system. The MNRI Facial Reflex Integration Program techniques work to activate and engage reflex actions, movements and patterns necessary for the maturation of more complex motor reflexes and the development of advanced communication and cognition. MNRI Facial Reflex program techniques have been used with great success for children experiencing various delays in communication development.
MNRI Oral-Facial Reflex Integration course explores:
The general MNRI Method and the role played by the Facial Reflex Integration Program
Oral-facial reflexes and how they relate to primary motor reflex patterns and important body systems
The role oral-facial reflexes play in establishing a foundation for motor, communication and cognitive
development, and emotional and behavioral regulation
MNRI techniques to assess, pattern, and integrate oral-facial reflexes
How to create an MNRI oral-facial reflex integration home program for individual clients
How to incorporate MNRI Oral-Facial Reflex Integration course content into daily client and home
practice
Oral Facial 1 Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration Method and the innate nature of the
motor reflex system, especially the oral-facial nerves.
2. Explore the role of a reflex pattern and its sensory, motor and central nervous system connections.
3. Discuss roll MNRI Method techniques play in self-regulation and survival.
4. Explore the physiological and psychological basis for primary motor reflexes and their maturational
stages.
5. Explore the neurophysiological aspects of the dynamic and postural Oral-Facial reflexes and
brainstem functioning.
6. Demonstrate the role of a reflex patterns and their sensory, motor, and central and autonomic, cranial
nervous system mechanisms.
7. Describe oral-facial reflex patterns activity and how they relate to cognitive oral-motor programing and
performance in future articulation development.
8. Explain the physiological and psychological basis for motor program strategies and developmental
stages of oral-facial abilities and skills.
9. Demonstrate the role of inappropriately developed protection mechanisms and articulation/speech
programming.
10. Explore the when, why, and how the brain engages in negative protection versus positive protection
and the effect on learning and development.
11. Explain the role oral-facial reflexes play in establishing a foundation for oral-motor, languagecommunication, cognitive development, and emotional and behavioral regulation.
12. Apply MNRI techniques to assess the mirror neurons activation for tongue activation,
articulation/speech imitation.
13. Explain the maturational role of oral-facial reflexes within the primary motor reflex system and the
impact of dysfunctional and pathological reflex patterns on daily life of children and adults with
developmental and neurodeficits.
14. Describe the importance of oral-facial symmetry and the maturational progression of specific oralfacial reflex including the dynamics of each reflex pattern.
15. Explain the impact integration of each oral-facial reflex can have on protection and survival
mechanisms including sucking, swallowing, breathing, rooting, fear paralysis, eating and general oral
neuro-cranial-vascular function.
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