| Options |
Description |
| Behavioral
Therapy |
Behavior
therapy helps one weaken the connections between
troublesome situations and their habitual reactions to
them. Reactions such as fear, depression or rage, and
self-defeating or self-damaging behavior. |
|
Brain
Gym
www.braingym.org |
Developmental
experts have known for more than eighty years that
movement enhances learning. Beginning in the 1970s,
Southern California educator and reading specialist Paul
E. Dennison, Ph.D., built on this knowledge by bringing
specific movements into his learning disabilities
clinics. |
| Cranio-Sacral
(CST) |
CST
is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing
the functioning of a physiological body system called
the craniosacral system - which consists of the membranes and
cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain
and spinal cord. |
Dore
Achievement
Centers
www.dorecenters.com |
Dore
Achievement Centers help children and adults affected by
learning difficulties to achieve their full potential.
Whether someone has been formally diagnosed or just is
living with symptoms associated with ADD/ADHD, dyslexia,
or developmental coordination delay (DCD), the Dore
program may be beneficial. |
Feingold
Program
www.feingold.org |
The
Feingold program tests to determine if certain foods or
food allergies are triggering particular symptoms. It is
basically the way people used to eat before "hyperactivity" became a household
word, and before asthma and chronic ear infections
became so very common. Used originally as a diet for
allergies, improvement in behavior and attention was
first noticed as a "side effect." |
| Floor
Time Therapy
www.autcom.org
www.stanleygreenspan.com
|
This
model Autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (which Stanley
Greenspan, MD's
prefers to call "multisystem developmental
disorder") is thoroughly developmental. Dr.
Greenspan faults
most interventions for zeroing in on the initial problem
area observed during diagnosis -- motor, sensory,
behavioral, language, etc. -- rather than conceiving the
child's challenge in terms of a broad set of
developmental processes across all areas. |
| Multiple
Intelligence |
The theory of Multiple
Intelligence
from Howard Gardner, M.D. is that every human possesses
several distinct intellectual faculties (rather than a
singe trait called “intelligence”), each with its
own way of developing and operating. |
| Neuro
Therapy (EEG Feedback) |
EEG
biofeedback teaches an individual how to control brainwave
patterns to heighten focus, attentiveness, and
coordination. |
Prescription
Medication
Physicians’
Desk Reference (PDR)
www.consumerlabs.com |
|
| Play
Therapy |
In
play therapy, toys, games, puppets, puzzles and crafts
are used to assist children in resolving their
conflicts.
Conflicts may stem from difficulties with
behavior or discipline, themselves because of
adjustments to life changes such as geographical
relocation, change in school, divorce, illness, or death
of a family member. |
Toxins
Jeff
Bradstreet, MD www.icdrc.org
Doris Rapp, MD www.drrapp.com |
Toxins
in the environment or food have been linked to
developmental issues with children.
It may be worthwhile to research the issue of
toxins and what can be done about them. |
