PSOF Foundations · Educator Pathway

Train your eye for the signals that change a child's file.

The Pediatric Sensorimotor Observation Framework is a structured method for observing neurodevelopmental signals inside an ordinary classroom day, currently in active IRB-aligned psychometric validation in partnership with Webster Central School District. Begin with the Vestibular domain. Earn certification. Carry the discipline into your next MTSS conversation.

Foundations

Steps 1–4 establish the framework, the four signals, and the resource-allocation mechanism.

Calibration

Step 5 is the IRB-aligned calibration assessment. Steps 6–8 translate the result into classroom practice.

Reflection & Certification

Steps 9–10 anchor the discipline to one real student, then issue your credential. ~72 min total.

WCSD Pilot TrainingSchlegel Road Elementary · half-day session

The Premise

“Academic readiness is neurologic before it is academic.

Dr. C. Robert Luckey, DC · Principal Investigator · PSOF · IRB Protocol v3.1

Most districts ask the wrong first question. Not which intervention to apply, but whether the student's neurologic system is ready to receive one. PSOF is the observational discipline, and the governance infrastructure, that makes that question answerable, at the district level, by the teachers who are already in the room.

IRB Protocol v3.1

Active psychometric validation

In partnership with Webster Central School District · Monroe County, NY

Clinical Authority

20+ years · 10,000+ encounters

Constraint-Based Medicine framework · Pittsford Performance Care

NYS Compliance

NY-DPA executed · FERPA governed

Continuing Education sponsorship application in process with NYSED

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The nine PSOF domains

Begin with Vestibular

Vestibular is fully built. The remaining domains are queued in the canonical PSOF order and will release as content is validated.

Unit 01

Frontal

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Executive function, working memory, and regulation

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Begin with Step 1: Domain Foundations.

Unit 02

Cerebellar

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Coordination, timing, and motor scaling

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Unit 03

Vestibular

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Balance, spatial orientation, and postural stability

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Unit 04

Proprioceptive

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Body awareness, force grading, input regulation

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Unit 05

Limbic-Prefrontal

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Emotional regulation in service of cognition

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Unit 06

Autonomic ↑

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Sympathetic activation, hyperarousal, settling difficulty

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Unit 07

Autonomic ↓

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Low energy, underactivation, somatic complaints

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Unit 08

Brainstem

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Postural readiness, reflexive control, midline organization

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Unit 09

Visual-Oculomotor

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Gaze efficiency, saccade accuracy, smooth pursuit

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Beyond observer certification

Phased certification pathway

Phase 1 trains what to see. Phase 2 trains what to do with what you see, inside a structured MTSS process. Phase 3 trains the coordinator who runs it.

Phase 2A

Co-Pilot Contributor

Locked

Contribute calibrated observation data to a PSOF-governed MTSS meeting using the seven-step Co-Pilot facilitation surface.

Earn at least one Phase 1 certification to unlock.

Phase 3

MTSS Coordinator

Coming soon

Train the coordinator who facilitates all seven Co-Pilot steps, manages competing voices, and writes the immutable Coordination Context.

In development

A note on pace

“Walking the ten steps thoroughly, not quickly, is what produces the observational discipline that changes a child's file.”

This platform is not a course you finish. It is a discipline you build.