17 Mar
Adult, Best Practices, Brain Injury, Brain Injury Adult, IM Blog, Success, Traumatic Brain Injury

March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month

Brain injuries are very different than any other injury because our brain stores all of our memories, controls our movements, and shapes our personality; the brain is truly the essence of who we are. Brain injuries often lead to multiple complications, such as seizures, coma, fluid and pressure in the skull, infections, nerve damage, blood vessel damage, and cognitive deficits that can result in behavioral and emotional changes. Individuals often find that they have trouble with memory, problem-solving/decision-making skills, attention, language/speaking, writing, impulse control, anxiety, depression, balance, and hand-eye coordination. Learn how Interactive Metronome® can help brain injury sufferers by working to physiologically change the functional brain networks that control rhythm and timing.

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19 Sep
Academic Improvement, Autism, Best Practices, Clients, Dyslexia, IM Blog, Interactive Metronome, Products, Professionals, Provider of the Month, Science, Success

IM Featured in the “Let’s Talk” Podcast – Featuring IM Provider Sue Zapf

Our providers are truly passionate about helping their clients and utilizing Interactive Metronome. Take a moment to check out Sue Zapf, an IM provider who was recently featured on the “Let’s Talk” Podcast. She shares valuable insights about using IM, particularly for individuals facing learning challenges.  
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11 May
IM Blog, Professionals, Provider of the Month, Success

Meet May’s Provider of the Month: Amy Vega, MS, CCC-SLP

Amy Vega, MS, CCC-SLP received her master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of South Florida in 1994 and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competency from the American Speech Language & Hearing Association. In clinical practice, she specialized in adolescent and adult rehabilitation for patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, brain tumor and other disease processes that affect communication, cognition and behavior. She currently serves as Director of both the Clinical Education Department and the Clinical Advisory Board for Interactive Metronome, Inc. and is their Continuing Education Administrator. She provides clinical support to Interactive Metronome Providers globally, serves as Editor in Chief for IM’s clinical publications, develops IM certification & training materials and is the master-trainer for IM certification instructors.

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07 Feb
Best Practices, Early Intervention, Enhancement, IM Blog, Pediatric, Provider of the Month, Success

We are Proud to Announce Our February Provider of the Month

Dr. Susan Zapf is an Occupational Therapist and Assistive Technology Professional with over 27 years of experience working with the pediatric population in both private practice and the school-based settings. She is an entrepreneur and is the Owner and Clinical of The Children’s Therapy Center, Inc., a prominent pediatric sensory integration clinic in Houston, Texas. Dr. Zapf is also the Owner and President of Children’s Journey to Shine, Inc, an educational training company that educates healthcare professionals on assistive technology assessment and service delivery and provides therapy services that utilize animals and nature as tools in therapy. Dr. Zapf is the President of Reining Potential of Texas, a non-profit organization that uses the horse in occupational therapy services. Dr. Zapf is adjunct faculty for the Ph.D. Pediatric Science track at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in Provo, Utah, and teaches a course on assistive technology. As an occupational therapist, she is passionate about helping children and their families develop skills to reach their full potential and she believes that occupational therapy, assistive technology, and animals can be powerful interventions to assist in this process.

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02 Feb
Best Practices, IM Blog, Success

Setting your 2023 Goals

Now that you have settled into the new year, have you set professional goals for yourself?
Professional goals are the actionable steps you need to take to grow in your career. Ask yourself that elusive job interview question: “where do you see yourself and your career in five years?”, then build your goals from there. Below are 3 professional development goals where Interactive Metronome may be of help.

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13 Dec
Adult, IM Blog, Interactive Metronome, Pediatric, Products, Professionals, Research, Science, Success

Understanding the Forbrain ® Effect

We perceive sound via the audio-vocal loop. Then, we analyze it, assimilate it, and continuously adjust in response to it. This process relies upon auditory discrimination, phonological awareness, and rhythm. Forbrain ®, an altered auditory feedback (AAF) device, takes advantage of this audio-vocal loop & heightens a user’s perception of his own voice & speech through bone conduction headphones that are equipped with a high sensitivity microphone. As the user talks into the microphone, a patented electronic dynamic filter blocks out environmental noise & amplifies the user’s voice, enhancing long vowels and other sounds that are the building blocks of language.

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21 Nov
Best Practices, Clients, IM, IM Blog, Pediatric, Sensory Integration/ Sensory Processing Disorder, Success

Are You Reinforcing a Strength or Improving a Weakness with Your IM Training Plan?

Check it out! Amy Vega, MS CCC-SLP and IM's  Clinical Education Director,  Clinical Advisory Board Director and  Clinical Education Administrator shares with us the importance of focusing on a clients strength to impact training outcome. Are You Reinforcing a Strength or Improving a Weakness with Your IM Training Plan? Often, the goal...

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19 Oct
Best Practices, Clients, IM, IM Blog, Pediatric, Sensory Integration/ Sensory Processing Disorder, Success

IM Games Create a Platform for Engagement and Success with Sensory Integration

Check it out! IM is featured in the book "When Kids Fly! Solutions for Children with Sensory Integration Challenges" by Sally Fryer Dietz, PT, CST-D. IM Provider, clinic owner and author Sally Fryer Dietz is a physical therapist, developmental specialist, sensory integration expert, child advocate and mother. As a leading...

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04 Aug
Academic Improvement, Best Practices, CEU Resources, Continuing Education, Early Intervention, General Brain Fitness, IM Blog, IM Home, Interactive Metronome, Learning Disability, Pediatric, Professionals, Sensory Integration/ Sensory Processing Disorder, Success

Check out Dillen Hartley’s Presentation from the Austim, ADHD and SPD Summit!

IM Provider, Course instructor and researcher Dillen Hartley, OTR/L presented at the Autism, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Disorder Summit. He discussed Interactive Metronome Applications for Retraining the Brain in ASD, ADHD and SPD. Dillen graduated from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, school of Occupational Therapy in 1995 and moved to...

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