Face-to-face course

Developmental Delay +
Primitive Reflexes II

Support motor maturity & optimize child development

with Jamie & Lynsey Taylor

29-30 November 2025 • Melbourne, Australia

Are you a paediatric therapist, educator, or healthcare professional working with children facing developmental challenges?

Join us for this hands-on 2-day seminar focused on refining your understanding of primitive and postural reflexes, coregulatory mechanisms, and developmental milestones from infancy to early childhood.

Curriculum

What you’ll learn

  • Assessment of primitive reflexes – Moro, ATNR, STNR, Babinski & more

  • Practical exercises to support rolling, crawling, walking & posture

  • Functional understanding of interoception & autonomic socioemotional reflexes

  • Strategies for neurodiversity, cerebral palsy, FASD & scoliosis

  • Coregulation & sensory-motor integration techniques

  • Review of MAT 4-6, NBAS, and developmental assessments (0–36 months)

  • Practical treatment planning with evidence-based approaches

Key reflexes we’ll cover

  • Head Righting Reflex (stability, coordination and gaze control)

  • STNR & Landau Reflexes (crawl-readiness and muscle development)

  • Parachute Reflex (balance and protective response)

about the presenters

Jamie Taylor

Jamie Taylor was born in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. He trained at the European School of Osteopathy, (ESO) in Maidstone, England, 1990-1994.

During his final year he began to enjoy working with newborns and pregnant mother’s. He very quickly began to see the importance of taking the trauma out of childbirth for mothers and postpartum distress in babies. When he graduated he worked in London at the Osteopathic Centre for children where this conviction grew. In 1997 he began assisting on the undergraduate Osteopathic technique classes at the ESO and clinical supervision in the undergraduate children's clinic, where he stayed until he moved back to NZ in 2005. He moved back to New Zealand in November 2005 after completing his masters in Osteopathy.

Jamie’s practice is predominantly focused on babies and pregnancy and postnatal mothers. 

Regulation: Jamie Taylor is a member of the register of Osteopaths in New Zealand and the society of Osteopaths New Zealand.

Lynsey Taylor

Lynsey graduated as an Occupational Therapist in 2004 in the UK. She is married to Jamie and together they have 2 boys. Lynsey works in private practice with learning needs and developmentally delayed children in the office and school setting. She trains teachers and resources them to work with these children. She largely utilises a school based program called Smart moves. She utilises the reflex assessment, developmental assessment tools and exercise, movement program on a daily basis. She has also taught post-graduate level seminars in Australia and New Zealand for 5 years.

 

Jamie and Lynsey have a pragmatic, clinically informed, research based yet informal, practical and natural presentation + approach to teaching. In this course, they will integrate standard paediatric manual therapy with movement and exercises specifically tailored for integrating motor function and integrating primitive reflexes to allow the course participants to be able to utilise the knowledge and skills presented straight away in their clinic environment.

Course details

 

Date: 29-30 November 2025

Time: 9am to 4pm
Please arrive 15 minutes early for registration.

Location: Melbourne, Australia (exact location TBA)

Meals: Fully catered

Fee: $990 AUD + 10% GST

 

 Empower your practice with the latest in motor development science

FAQs

  • This course is open to all health professionals

  • It is recommended that you read the material in the pre-reading section of your course curriculum. There will also be a copy of your course presentation. It is recommended that you print these slides ready for the presentation.

  • You will need a bottle of water, pen, a notepad or paper to write on and a printed copy of your presentation slides. Printing out your course pre-reading material would be helpful, yet, not essential.

  • Completing both days of this 2-day course will give you 20 points of CPD. Please note, only the person who purchases the course will receive a certificate of attendance and gain the CPD points.

  • Contact Inspire Health Albury on (02) 60411329 or email hello@wisdomexchange.com.au if you have any questions.

    On the day of the course, if you need to contact someone urgently, contact Thanuja Vanderhoek on 0418164174

“I have completed a number of courses run by Jamie Taylor. I have found them to be thorough and straight to the point. The information and techniques taught are very easy to implement into everyday practice. I have found his courses to be exceptionally beneficial no matter weather they be building on prior knowledge and experience or if you are learning content that is completely new.”
— NICOLE I.