Rhythm and Timing & Your ADHD Child – What’s the Connection? “A child’s timing — ability to feel and express steady beat — is fundamental to both movement and music, affecting sports skills and musical performance, as well as speech-flow and performance of timed motor tasks.” ~Timing in Child Development […]
Read MoreThree Diagnoses, One Child: SPD, DCD, and Expressive Language Delays & What to Do Next Sensory Processing Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder, and Expressive Language Delays, all attributed to your child. Its true you’ve been looking for answers to the academic, behavioral, and social challenges your child is experiencing.
Read MoreInternal Thoughts & Squirrels: 5 Ways ADHD Distracts Your Child Children with ADHD are constantly fighting through a myriad of attention-grabbing people, activities, and thoughts that trip up their attempts to focus, learn, and socialize well.A sudden memory comes to mind and distracts them from a homework assignment.
Read MoreAutism & the Brain: Why Rhythm and Timing Are So Important Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), according to the American Psychiatric Association, is generally characterized by deficiencies in social interaction, communication, and a tendency toward “restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviors, interests, and activities.”
Read MoreSarah watched her son from the doorway of his bedroom. His very messy bedroom. She bit back the urge to say, “Pick up your clothes,” “Where’s your homework?” or “You’re going to miss the bus!” Again. Why bother? He barely stopped for a kiss as he ran past her.
Read MoreThe Brain Clock — What is It? How Does it Affect ADHD? Wake up in eight hours. Get dressed in twenty minutes.Wait ten minutes for the bus. Wait five minutes before asking the teacher questions. Listen before you write the test answer. Don’t leave your seat until time for lunch.
Read More5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Settle for Drugs as the Only Solution for ADHD A vast majority of the struggles that accompany ADHD are academic, relational, and behavioral. Though meds can assist in some cases, they are not the only paths to the calm you seek.Are you struggling with ADHD?
Read MoreNearly 5 years ago, an adorable 4 year old, Ryan, came to Learn 2 Focus. His parent’s search to find a drug free option to treat his severe hyperactivity and attention challenges landed him in our office as a last attempt to control his dis-tractability.
Read MoreTime to live each day to the fullest and enjoy all the good things life has to offer. And Interactive Metronome training is a great way to kick off your new year. After all, new year, new brain!
Read MoreInteractive Metronome recently had the opportunity to provide a piece for the Autism NoteBook’s latest publication (pages 12-13). The connection between Neurotiming® and autism spectrum symptoms is undeniable: Researchers (Nicholas et al, 2007) have found that children with autism suffer from a significant number of symptoms that show timing in the brain is severely disrupted.
Read MoreOvercoming Autism in Hawaii: Transformation of a child and a family. I was curious to learn from well known brain trainer Susi Sorensen about the results she has seen with Hawaii children with autism. The more I learn about autism in Hawaii I learn that more families are affected by this condition.
Read MoreDr. Kevin McGrew, author of the Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities, discusses the importance of timing in the brain, as well as how Interactive Metronome impacts brain timing, and influences and changes neurological function. Attention, motor coordination, cognitive abilities, speech and language are all areas affected positively by this form of brain training.
Read MoreLearn2Focus – Undoing Dyslexia in Hawaii Undoing Dyslexia In Hawaii – My Story Welcome to Learn 2 Focus’s November Transforum enewsletter. Last month we focused on dyslexia. Dyslexia is one of the more commonly misunderstood learning disabilities.
Read MoreIM’s clinical director, Amy Vega, has this to say about the use of IM with patients suffering from memory and motor related symptoms associated with dementia and Alzheimers. “We know from contemporary and peer-reviewed research that individuals who are aging demonstrate decline in their ability to discriminate time.
Read MoreResearcher examines rhythmic training in multiple clinical disorders. The human brain measures time continuously and we are capable of internally perceiving time to produce reactive and precisely timed behaviors.
Read Moreon’t wait for the report card. If your child is struggling with language and literacy, call Learn2Focus now to find out more about how Fast ForWord and our other programs can help. 808-352-0116. We specialize in distance training for Hawaii and the Pacific Basin.
Read MoreStudy concludes nonacademic timing intervention, Interactive Metronome, for school aged children provides statistically significant improvement in reading achievement and other academic domains.
Read MoreI found this great use of Brother Iz’s classic Somewhere Over The Rainbow on IMetronome which is the idea factory for Interactive Metronome provider community. It provides fluency training by combining lyrics and music. What do you think about this? I think I’ll relax and listen to it now!
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Read MoreCan we change the function of the brain? The answer is “YES!” The keys are: engagement during training overlap training time to include complimentary areas of focus provide appropriate and SUFFICIENT input adapt challenge and difficulty maintain continued practice for continued benefit This is the rationale behind Interactive Metronome. Our mantra at Learn2Focus is: FREQUENCY...
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