| 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. |
Brain
Train
www.braintrain.com |
Computerized cognitive training game-like exercises
that build the basic skills necessary for academic and
life success - attention, memory, self- control,
processing speed, eye-hand coordination, and auditory
processing. A neuropsychologist designed the programs
for people ages 5 through adult to help build new
neuronal connections by stimulating the growth of new
pathways between brain cells. |
| 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
www.thomasarmstrong.com
|
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. |
|
Neurofeedback
www.lifequalityresources.org
www.ISNR.org
|
This specialized form of biofeedback helps a child
learn to control brain activity that effects focus and
concentration. In
this process sensors on the scalp function like antenna
picking up EEG activity.
This information is processed via a computer and
becomes the source of visual, auditory or tactile
“feedback” that helps the child exercise and
strengthen healthy patterns. |
Prescription
Medication
www.pdr.net
Physicians’
Desk Reference (PDR)
|
|
| 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. |
| Speech
Language Therapy |
Language is a high level
human skill that is important for learning, working, and
enjoying fulfilling social relationships. |
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. |
