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A Brain-based Approach for ADHD and LD

Donna Abler, a holistic occupational therapist, is accepting summer registrations to help children overcome motor, behavioral and cognitive challenges associated with attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities (LD) through a natural, drug-free approach. Developed in the early 1990s, Interactive Metronome (IM) is a computerized, brain-based therapy tool that has gained national attention as a breakthrough intervention to support processing abilities in the brain, including language, motor and cognition skills. Its effectiveness is backed by clinical research…

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IM helps with reading skills

 

IM helps with reading skills

One of the things that many of the parents of the children whom I have worked with have told me while we were doing IM sessions was that they noticed some type of improvement with reading. Some of these children had difficulty with reading and letter recognition from the start, and others did not, but improvement was still observed by parents or teachers.

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Gift Ideas to enhance an IM program

Gift Ideas to enhance an IM program

Are you looking for a gift for your child who is participating in IM sessions?  Parents at our clinic ask me all the time what would be a good gift for their child. Something to enhance their therapy yet is fun. Below I’ve listed some games which can be found at the Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon or Toys R Us, so they are easy to find.

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Developmental Optometrist

Developmental Optometrists Developmental optometrists, also known as behavioral or pediatric optometrists (if your specialty is with school age children), are more than your average eye doctor. There is more to optometry than correcting blurred vision or an astigmatism. Are the eyes functioning together as a team? Is the malfunction affecting learning?...

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Mental Health Professionals

Mental Health Professionals Like the family and caregivers they work with everyday, mental health  professionals are concerned with an individual approach to treatment. Whether it is a clinical psychologist focusing on research or a psychiatrist who writes prescriptions, mental health professionals need the tools to work with these varying groups. IM is...

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Other Healthcare and Mental Health Professionals

Other Healthcare and Mental Health Professionals Part of what makes IM so unique is its ability to improve domain-general mechanisms. The domain-general mechanism of timing is a "jack of all trades" mechanism that manifests itself in sleep cycles, speech patterns, ability to attend over time and overall efficacy of brain communication....

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Educators/School Psychologists

Educators & School Psychologists Today, maybe more than ever, schools are facing heavy pressure to keep standardized test numbers high and budgets low. This approach to educating children usually means that children with cognitive deficits and developmental disorders rarely receive the full complement of training needed to flourish. After realizing the...

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