The Teacher’s Reflex Integration Curriculum – Movement for the Primary Grades is an evidence-based program that informs teachers of the effects of retained primitive reflexes and provides lesson plans for classroom and Response to Intervention (RTI) sessions. The program aims to address neuro-motor maturity in all primary grade students proposed as a result of several factors: infant sleep position, children’s time usage, poverty, increased incidence of childhood diagnoses, and learning difficulties. Following appraisal of existing programs, and considering play as a childhood occupation, neuroplasticity, the concept of dissolution, the theory of replication, and school readiness skills, the T-Rex program content was developed. The program consists of movements and games, lesson plans, lesson links, and a data collection sheet. The program’s implementation includes a presentation to four primary grade teachers, and demonstration of a lesson plan. Following the presentation and lesson demonstration, teachers respond to a questionnaire. This information guides the program’s editing, further development, and piloting.
