If you missed the recent live episode of #ThisMorning, (06/07/23) here's a transcript of the insightful conversation between our founder Sarah Warley and the callers discussing dyslexia.

Did you know that breathing has a profound impact on our brains? It's all about brain science! When we take deep breaths, we activate the parasympathetic nervous system, enabling us to tap into the logical thinking parts of our brains, stay calm, and effectively solve problems. And that's exactly what we want our kids to do when they experience tantrums.

From the moment of conception, a child's development is a complex and intricate process that can be influenced by various factors. Research shows that factors during pregnancy and birth can significantly impact a child's later development. In this article, we will discuss some of the key findings related to reflex development and speech and language development.

We spoke to a mum who's been through our programme and we asked her for her hot tips on how she manages to incorporate healthier meals and supplements into her family's diet.

On Thursday's episode of This Morning, our founder Sarah Warley joined Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield to discuss the clinic's innovative approach to treating dyslexia. The segment provided valuable insights into the personalised techniques we use at The Key Clinic to help individuals with dyslexia overcome their challenges and unlock their full potential.

Did you catch the item on the news the other day about the full moon and disrupted sleep? Did you know that magnesium deficiency could be linked to poor sleep? Magnesium is an essential mineral that helps relax your muscles and nerves, and is commonly linked to reduced fatigue and tiredness.

Our Founder Sarah Warley was at Virgin Radio yesterday to sit down with Chris Evans and discuss our multiple cutting-edge therapies to help children and adults achieve their full potential.

Sarah told Chris: “What we spend our time doing is trying to figure out what the root causes of difficulties are, rather than getting too hung up on the diagnosis and the label.

“For different people, there are different root causes. You can have three kids with anxiety or three adults with anxiety and three very different causes.

Music is our first language. When we are developing in the womb, we respond to external sounds through movement and become familiar with the sound of our mother’s voice. Every sound a baby responds to and makes is part of their language development. As children develop, nursery rhymes and songs are used to help them learn and memorise concepts (like the alphabet, for example).

The relationship between gut health and immunity

Did you know that what you eat has a bigger impact on your gut microbiome and its ability to protect you from viruses than anything else you do?* In fact, 70-80% of immune cells are present in the gut!

It’s therefore vital to keep your gut in good shape to bolster your immune system. Healthy gut bacteria need specific essential raw materials and nutrients to survive, and those requirements come from eating a wide range of different foods.

So how can you improve your family’s gut health, and therefore your immunity?

Despite the importance of reading, many children (and adults!) can be reluctant to dive into a book. Children can feel the pressure of having to read, so showing them how much fun it can be will help them build a healthy appetite for reading and (hopefully) inspire a life-long love of books.

Underachieving is a serious issue. It can limit future prospects, university, jobs and self-confidence, so parents and teachers are strongly motivated to solve the problems.

We see that despite best efforts, extra classes, repetitions and talking therapies don’t bring enough success.

Our approach to helping children who are underachieving is different. We see that for a high proportion of children, the cause of underachievement can be easily identified and remedied. It lies in the reflex profile of the child.

More than 10% of all children and young people (1.4 million in the UK) have long-term speech, language and communication needs. We also know that many children who underperform at school have hearing distortions, which can lead to speech/language problems, difficulty reading, spelling and processing any auditory information. A pattern of hypersensitive hearing can also lead to distractibility.

The brain has an incredible ability to change, reorganise and grow new neural networks in response to new experiences or learning: this is what is meant by neuroplasticity.

This fascinating process can happen at any age and informs our NeuroMature Programmes, which create new neural pathways in the brain by maturing the nervous system. This is particularly helpful for children who have learning difficulties, as the root cause is often what is known as retained primitive reflexes, which help the nervous system to develop in infancy.

While dyslexia is now being more widely identified than it was for previous generations, the approaches for dealing with it are not keeping up with our latest understanding of neuroscience. As most of us are parents ourselves, we understand the frustration of having a diagnosis given to your child without any investigation or answers on the root causes of their symptoms. Swimming upstream to identify the underlying issues with reading and processing difficulties is what we are known for here at The Key Clinic.

In the final part of our series of talks with The Dukes Club, our Founder Sarah Warley speaks to Magoo Giles on the importance of dialling up auditory processing for those who are underperforming relative to their intelligence.

There are many different schools of thought when it comes to children’s development - medical, psychological, physical and educational. At The Key Clinic, our perspective is pretty simple - movement is key.

Does your child struggle with handwriting? There is an often overlooked reason why: children that have difficulties with handwriting frequently have a retained Asymmetrical Tonic Reflex (ATNR).

At The Key Clinic, we investigate whether your child’s primitive reflexes have been retained and are causing difficulties in functioning. Neurodevelopmental programmes mature the nervous system by integrating ‘retained reflexes’ in children and adults that should have fulfilled their developmental role and disappeared long ago. Today we are answering the most common question that parents ask us: what are ‘retained reflexes’ and what do they do?

“The work at The Key Clinic is so life-changing for so many. They get amazing results, I wish more people were aware of this!” – Liz Earle MBE.

If you’re a fan of Liz Earle’s podcast The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show, then you may have noticed that this week’s episode features…us!

The Zones of Regulation help children manage their emotions in an easy and practical way. Many children struggle with emotional regulation, which can have an impact on their daily lives. The Zones of Regulation is a cognitive-behavioural method created by Leah Kuhpers, M.A. ED, OTR/L. It helps children and young people learn how to recognise and regulate their emotions every day.