Author Archives: Robert Nurisio COVT

Piece by Piece: A Parquetry Revelation – Part Two

Square Central and Parallel with Blocks Non-Contiguous In Part One, we began with a square positioned centrally and parallel to the edge of the table. Each additional block touched the square along an entire side, creating a design with clear, concrete relationships. The patient did not have to estimate where a block belonged somewhere in open space, since the shared

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Piece by Piece: A Parquetry Revelation – Part One

Parquetry is one of those vision therapy procedures that can appear deceptively simple. The Vision Therapist constructs a pattern with several blocks, and the patient attempts to reproduce it. If the two designs match, the patient has succeeded, or so it might appear. But matching the pattern is only the visible outcome. The real value of parquetry lies in what

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Primitive Reflexes and the Whole Person: Part Eight – Discovering Better Questions

Over the past seven posts, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about Primitive Reflexes. In case you’re just catching up, we’ve explored Moro, TLR, ATNR, STNR, Spinal Galant, and Head Righting. We’ve talked about movement, posture, vision, gravity, sensory information, emotional regulation, attention, reading, and brain injury. We’ve talked about Head Righting and why it represents something different: not

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