Attention Focus
Both educators and parents can detect youngsters whose seem to lack the ability to focus. Often through careful review, the distractibility that is observed in a person is the result of:
- Short term memory weakness
- Insufficient speed in processing
- Incomplete linking of body and brain
Improvement in the brain's millisecond timing creates the ability to self-regulate for a person. The role of impulsivity in a youngster's life can cause disruptions in their education and their family life, as well as bring frustration to the child.
With the IM process of clapping and tapping exercise with hands and feet to a rhythmic metronome beat that is heard through headsets.
With the 12 sessions, over 3 weeks, training the trainee will become skillful and confident in performing the exercises and the process will improve the transmission of information along the neural pathways. This brings the abilities in positive behavior modification to:
- Work more independently
- Communicate better
- Improve coordination
- Be less distracted
- Be more focused
- Attend better
- Take less time on schoolwork, homework and chores
- Complete math problems more efficiently, gains of a year or more
- Conduct reading tasks faster and more accurately, gaining a year or more in levels
- Be less frustrated and impulsivity
- Perform better on tests
Viewing a recently broadcasted Health Feature in California, might help your vision in understanding the positive impact of IM training, take a few minutes to look at this feature, please.
School districts [in the United States] report the Interactive Metronome students make these gains as a result of IM training:
- A year or more growth in reading
- Improvement in brain processing speed
- A year or more of improvement in reading
As you read about these gains, you may realize that the increases can benefit both children and adults. Anyone can benefit from improved brain processing speed and improved decision-making speed…especially for children who struggle with learning disabilities, dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, and even Asperger's syndrome.
Those individuals with self-esteem problems, school failure, autism, Asperger's, learning disabilities and distractibility will be able to use the structured training environment and it's visual and auditory cueing tools to realize personal self-regulation of their behavior.
Diane Massad, certified IM trainer at Brain Train Cleveland, invites you to experience the IM process in a complimentary 20 minute Timing Survey.
The use of movement and sound, under the state of the art technology of the Interactive Metronome system, yields results in school, gives a family time, again, for fun activities, removes the nagging role for a parent and best of all, give the child cognitive skills for a lifetime!
