Interactive Metronome Blog
The Interactive Metronome & IM-Home Blog are hosted at www.imhome.org. Below are the latest 15 entries. We encourage you to visit the blog to see more posts, make comments, share the posts with your friends on Facebook or Tweet them.
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IM Helps Family with ADHD Therapy
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 22 Feb 2012 | 4:02 pm
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IM Helps Family with ADHD Therapy
In an effort to help those who need it most, we ran a contest in all our Facebook pages for prospective IM-Home users to name our mascot. We got great submissions and after much[…] -
Featured in the News: After serious head injury, Dover principal spreads awareness about concussions
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 20 Feb 2012 | 11:50 am
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Principal Julie Sterner's injury impaired her ability to read and multitask after falling in a bounce house. She said therapy helped her become herself again.
York, PA - Last summer, Julie Sterner broke down in the ice-cream aisle at[…] -
You are a time machine
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 16 Feb 2012 | 12:19 pm
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You are a time machine
Time and space are the two fundamental dimensions of our lives. All forms of human behavior require us to process and understand information we receive from our environment in either spatial or temporal patterns.[…] -
A bit of Research: Timing in the brain is critical for good focus and self-control
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 16 Feb 2012 | 11:31 am
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Timing in the brain is critical for good focus and self-control. Studies like this one by Ben-Pazi et al (2005) show that the brain’s timing mechanism is not working properly in children with ADHD, and that it is even worse[…] -
It’s all in the Timing...
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 14 Feb 2012 | 10:58 am
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It’s all in the Timing…..
It’s amazing in our culture how many references there are to time or timing… “His timing was just off today”...””Time is money...”Timing is everything”…the list goes on and on. It’s “time” for us to start[…] -
IM is Featured on the Radio: Voice America "Focus Point Review"
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 10 Feb 2012 | 10:08 am
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IM Provider April Christopherson OTR/L guest stars in the “Focus Point” Voice America National Radio program.
She discuses “The Shandy Clinic” in Colorado Springs, CO, Interactive Metronome, other programs that she has worked with, and the use of modalities to[…] -
A Bit of Research on ADHD
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 9 Feb 2012 | 11:46 am
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Children with ADHD are frequently impulsive. Fortunately, researchers are trying to get to the bottom of this to determine the reason(s) why and what can be done about it. Authors of an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry (2006)[…] -
Keep IM in the Family: How IM-Home ensured a successful recovery
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pm
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“IM not only gave me back my life - it became a part of my life”
Joanne had no idea what was in store for her when her daughter enrolled her grandchildren into one of my IM programs. As the[…] -
Featured in Kids Enabled: And the Beat Goes On - How Timing Affects Learning
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 8 Feb 2012 | 1:53 pm
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And the Beat Goes On – How Timing Affects Learning
By Beth Ardell, MPT
The tick-tock of a metronome has long been used by pianists while practicing their craft. Research now suggests that students with learning differences who “stay on[…] -
What the "Time Doc" is reading: Connectome
IM-Home - Latest blog entries 8 Feb 2012 | 10:34 am
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U snooze and you lose. I had received an advanced copy of Sebastian Seung's Connectome and had hoped to make one of the first book review posts about it. I simply could not find time to read it fast enough[…]