Map & Compass Neuro-Developmental Therapy

07/10/2026

Wondering if a programme at Map & Compass Neurodevelopmental Therapy is the right fit for you or your child?

Here are 6 key areas we support: 👇

1️⃣ Learning & Reading Difficulties
Strengthening auditory, visual, and motor foundations to build physical readiness for reading fluency, spelling, and processing spoken language.

2️⃣ Balance, Posture & Coordination
Integrating reflexes and using neurosensory sound stimulation to improve postural control, muscle tone, vestibular stability, and physical rhythm.

3️⃣ Listening, Processing & Speech
Easing auditory fatigue and background noise difficulty. Strengthening the audio-vocal loop supports active listening, instruction-following, and language emergence.

4️⃣ Sensory Sensitivity & Overload
Relieving an “overflowing neurological cup.” Promoting central nervous system maturity helps regulate hyper- and hypo-sensitivities across all senses.

5️⃣ Attention, Focus & Distractibility
Supporting children and adults dealing with ADHD, fidgeting, and distractibility by building efficient neural connections that make staying focused take less conscious effort.

6️⃣ Emotional Regulation & Connection
Calming the reflex-driven freeze/fight/flight response to ease anxiety, meltdowns, and hypervigilance—building emotional stability and social confidence.

✨ Take the next step: Book a free enquiry audio or video call to find out if a tailored programme is right for you or your child.

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07/10/2026

Understanding what may be contributing to a child's developmental, learning or behavioural presentation is central to the INPP approach. Alongside comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment, factors such as neuromotor development, postural control, sensory processing and retained primitive reflexes can form part of that picture for some children and young people.

Sally Goddard Blythe, Director of INPP Ltd, has written about ongoing debate around how the term Autism Spectrum Disorder is defined and applied, and why understanding what underlies presenting behaviours, rather than relying on a label alone, matters for effective support.

This does not mean these factors explain every presentation, or that addressing them changes a diagnosis. It means that a fuller picture, built through careful, structured assessment, can help professionals and families better understand an individual's needs.

Read the full article: https://www.inpp.uk/blog/further-reading-has-the-broadening-of-the-term-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd-gone-too-far

06/10/2026

Such an honour to be a guest on the Eden Consultancy NI first big table podcast!

Sharing the table with :

Ema Cubitt - Northern Ireland’s independent Autism reviewer

Amy Newell- an incredible autistic woman and a parent

Gemma Cushley- a fierce advocate, parent and professional

And hosted by the wonderful, Rebecca McMaster, founder of Eden Consultancy with a passion for changing the world around neurodivergent children and young people by equipping the key adults around them with knowledge, understanding, and practical strategies.

It was such a great morning at W5 in Belfast hearing these voices and leaving feeling encouraged by these remarkable women and the hope each of them are bringing in their sphere of influence.

To celebrate 25 episodes and one year of Eden Equips, we’ve brought...

05/10/2026

Honoured to be a part of this podcast with Eden Consultancy NI 🔥

23/09/2026

Published: September 2026 Category: Research and Evidence Could neuromotor development be relevant to understanding some childhood difficulties beyond movement and learning? A new study published in Scientific Reports explores the relationship between primitive reflex profiles, sensorimotor d

21/09/2026

21/09/2026

Voice message from a mother with a child on an INPP programme at Map & Compass Neurodevelopmental Therapy :
“Hi Tori, I just wanted to share this with you because when ###x came home from school on Friday, I almost cried. He produced this little jotter where he had done a spelling and maths test. They do those every Friday at school, but all of last year in P4, he was using the laptop at the teacher’s desk. And he was steadily improving all the time, but when he came home on Friday, he said to me, “Mummy, I did my test in a jotter today. That’s the first time in a year that I’ve done that.”
And now that he’s in P5, and I had just assumed that he was going to continue using the laptop. I hadn’t really thought about discussing it with the teacher because he has a PLP in place, but I will certainly speak to the teacher about it. But it’s just incredible to see that he not only has done it in a jotter, but that he got 100% correct! And the sentence that he—there were challenge words at the end, and that he hadn’t even, as that I’m aware of, been practicing. So the challenge words were the last few on the left, and then all the maths ones, and he got all those right as well.
So it’s just incredible. I mean, you know that I’m not so concerned about his academic ability, though it’s great to see it, but just the fact that he was able to concentrate long enough and he was able to recall what the teacher was saying in order for him to write it down, is just amazing. So I am absolutely delighted, absolutely buzzing, and just wanted to share that with you.
And he was so confident, and he was so, so proud of himself. a big beaming smile across his face, and I was just—I’m just overjoyed. I’m just so delighted for him because of how proud he was of himself. so that is the difference that all these exercises and the the work is doing. So I just wanted to report back to you because I know you like good stories. thank you, and I will look forward to being on Zoom with you this week and talking about ###x Bye!”

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