IM Blog, Research, Science

NEW STUDY IN PRESS! CLAPPING IN TIME PARALLELS LITERACY & CALLS UPON OVERLAPPING NEURAL MECHANISMS IN EARLY READER

"Clapping in time parallels literacy and calls upon overlapping neural mechanisms in early readers" was just accepted by the Ann NY Acad Sci. The data are a strong endorsement of the connection between IM, literacy and underlying biological mechanisms. CLAPPING IN TIME PARALLELS LITERACY & CALLS UPON OVERLAPPING NEURAL MECHANISMS IN...
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IM Blog, Pediatric

Motivation: How to Motivate a Teenager!

Wendy Harron is back with a follow-up to her popular piece on motivating children. This time, how to motivate teenagers. Teenagers are going through a period of change, and compounding that with difficult therapy is a recipe for disaster. Find out how to help keep kids working with therapists to achieve everyone's goals.

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Academic Improvement, IM Blog

Paystation: The Real Cost of Video Games

Video games are a multi-billion dollar industry. Every week, a new blockbuster comes out for Playstation or Xbox that is designed to pull users deep into a fantasy world filled with familiar characters, rewards and social accolades. But, can a 45 year old man playing the newest Madden title actually be helping his brain? Maybe. And so begins our series on video games and your brain.

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ADD /ADHD, Best Practices, Clients, IM Blog, IM Home, Pediatric

ON THE RADIO: New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center

In this clip, Terry Westerfield of United Way and her guest Lesley Jernigan a Speech and Language Pathologist and COO for the New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center discuss Interactive Metronome and the fascinating  advancements their  clinic  has experienced  since having IM in the New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center. "It's...
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Best Practices, Clients, IM, IM Blog, Pediatric, Sensory Integration/ Sensory Processing Disorder, Success

Are You Reinforcing a Strength or Improving a Weakness with Your IM Training Plan?

Check it out! Amy Vega, MS CCC-SLP and IM's  Clinical Education Director,  Clinical Advisory Board Director and  Clinical Education Administrator shares with us the importance of focusing on a clients strength to impact training outcome. Are You Reinforcing a Strength or Improving a Weakness with Your IM Training Plan? Often, the goal...
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Best Practices, Clients, IM, IM Blog, Pediatric, Sensory Integration/ Sensory Processing Disorder, Success

IM Games Create a Platform for Engagement and Success with Sensory Integration

Check it out! IM is featured in the book "When Kids Fly! Solutions for Children with Sensory Integration Challenges" by Sally Fryer Dietz, PT, CST-D. IM Provider, clinic owner and author Sally Fryer Dietz is a physical therapist, developmental specialist, sensory integration expert, child advocate and mother. As a leading...
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Academic Improvement, Best Practices, CEU Resources, Continuing Education, Early Intervention, General Brain Fitness, IM Blog, IM Home, Interactive Metronome, Learning Disability, Pediatric, Professionals, Sensory Integration/ Sensory Processing Disorder, Success

Check out Dillen Hartley’s Presentation from the Austim, ADHD and SPD Summit!

IM Provider, Course instructor and researcher Dillen Hartley, OTR/L presented at the Autism, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Disorder Summit. He discussed Interactive Metronome Applications for Retraining the Brain in ASD, ADHD and SPD. Dillen graduated from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, school of Occupational Therapy in 1995 and moved to...
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