What is TSMT®?

TSMT® is an acronym that stands for Targeted Sensory Motor Training®. The method was first developed by Katalin Lakatos Phd in 1984 and reached its current structure and development by 2015. Since 1992, TSMT® therapists have been trained in Hungary at the Budapest Hydrotherapy Rehabilitation Gymnastics Foundation, and the method is known as individual, TSMT® I. Group TSMT® II therapy and the water-based form of therapy, HRG® therapy. , HRG® therapy.
Therapy is always a face-to-face developmental protocol based on complex test results. The assessment looks for a link between children's everyday symptoms and neurodevelopmental abnormalities. In order to determine the need for therapy in children, it is necessary to examine the child, map symptoms and gather sufficient information about the child. An effective therapeutic proposal can only be made after a face-to-face assessment.

How do I know if my child needs therapy?

Therapy is always a face-to-face, complex test result-based developmental protocol. The assessment looks for a link between children's everyday symptoms and neurodevelopmental abnormalities.
In order to determine the need for therapy in children, it is necessary to examine the child, map symptoms, and gather sufficient information about the child. An effective therapeutic proposal can only be made after a face-to-face assessment.
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS

What does such an assessment consist of?

Each assessment is preceded by the completion of a questionnaire with anamnestic data and a questionnaire on children's sensory processing by the parent, which prepares the therapist for the assessment by gathering information about the period around conception, pregnancy, birth and its circumstances, as well as the postnatal period.

During the examination, the therapist uses the same tools used in therapy to perform the child's Longitudinal Complex Examination LongiKid®, which includes:

  • large and fine motor skills
  • graphomotor examination at the appropriate age
  • examination of social skills and cooperation
  • cognitive areas
  • basic vision and hearing tests
  • as well as tasks examining the maturity of the nervous system

Following this, the evaluation of the assessment is carried out with the help of software, the results of which form the basis of the therapeutic proposal.

Questionnaire completion

The parent fills out the two questionnaires
Assessment

The therapist performs the complex longitudinal assessment
Assessment evaluation

Based on the evaluation, therapy can begin
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How does the therapy take place?

The therapeutic tasks must be performed in the order, quantity, quality, and intervals determined by the therapist.

The TSMT I. therapy is mostly done at home as a joint training between the child and the parent. In special cases, the therapist conducts it multiple times a week in the therapy room or at the child's home. These training sessions are fully tailored to the child; the same training could be completely ineffective, possibly harmful, or unfeasible for other children!

The therapist selects the therapeutic tasks from hundreds of exercises because only targeted dosage of stimuli can achieve a therapeutic effect. With this targeted stimulation, the therapist supports the child's neurological development, which corresponds to the child's tolerance, developmental level, and involves alternating active and passive tasks using gymnastic equipment. During therapy, the tasks are always accompanied by rhythmized speech, melody, or rhymes, helping the child’s development in motor, psychological, cognitive, and social areas.

The goal of the training is conscious symptom reduction.