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The HANDLE Institute® Newsletter
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HANDLE celebrates 7th anniversary
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Music filled the air at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington on October 6, 2001. A union of piano, flute and percussion enraptured the audience at the Benefit Concert and Silent Auction in celebration of The HANDLE Institute's seventh anniversary. Scott Cossu, world famous jazz pianist, performed with accompaniment from Ann Lindquist on flute and Steve Banks on percussion.
In addition to the musical performance, a painting by multimedia artist Ginny Ruffner was displayed and made available through silent auc
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tion. The silent action will be open through December 8, 2001. To view the painting visit our website at www.handle.org.
The benefit concert was held to raise funds and promote awareness for the mission of The HANDLE Institute. Your help is still greatly needed, however, to support our goals of developing improved tools for our training programs for clinical practitioners and consultants, as well as scholarships for needy families seeking our individualized programs aimed at overcoming neurodevelopmental func
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The 7th anniversary benefit concert was held to raise funds and promote awareness for the mission of The HANDLE Institute.
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given time. This principle is based on the fact that systems under stress shut down. Continuous and close monitoring for state changes and/or indicators of vital organ stress rule all HANDLE therapy implementation. Many Sensory Integration therapists have departed from Jean Ayres's caution about the "art" of therapy. Often their attempts to stimulate vestibular function are too vigorous, resulting in shutdown rather than facilitation, and, therefore, delays in the client's rate of progress. Within six months of a HANDLE program, clients are likely to achieve more than they can achieve after years of sensory integration. And, al
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though HANDLE programs can help clients achieve most
of their goals, many families turn to HANDLE to create the readiness for a child to benefit from the therapies available through the school or local
therapy center.
A second distinction relates to HANDLE's view of a neurodevelopmental hierarchy not as linear or pyramidal - a fixed sequence - but as an on-going complex interaction of interdependent sensory and motor systems. From this paradigm, Certified HANDLE® Practitioners identify the weakened systems and recommend movement activities and other interventions, (Continued on page 7)
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Recent research on conduct disorders in teenagers shows that weaknesses in interhemispheric integration can inhibit development of the prefrontal cortex.
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Published by The HANDLE Institute
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