PROGRAMS FOR BRAIN INJURY

COGNITIVE REHAB

Please see the social skill groups page for more information. There are also links to games that build skills you need at home.

New brain research show us that he brain can heal and be revitalized with new neuropathways. Click here for information on brain plasticity.

If you want to change behavior, you should probably focus on specific skills, rather than on general capacity." -- Ian Robertson
Trinity College Dublin
 
Attention deficits are among the most common cognitive problems to result from traumatic brain injuries and stroke. Those deficits can impair people's ability to sustain attention and the ability to nimbly shift their focus between activities and avoid being distracted by irrelevant sources of information--These skills are needed for driving, reading, conversing and many other everyday activities.

For decades, scientists and clinicians have sought effective treatments for attention deficits that arise from brain injuries. The treatment of choice has long been to have patients practice cognitive exercises designed to directly restore impaired attention processes.

"The idea is that attention and other cognitive faculties are like muscles and that through exercising them, you can actually restore function to the neural circuits that underlie cognition," explains Norman Park, PhD, a psychologist and neurorehabilitationist at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto.

Our programs are based on this idea. They can be done with a coach or in the comfort of your home.

"Learning is most effective when it’s fun”

Cognitive Training Games Improve:

• Listening skills,
• Attention skills,
• Working memory,
• Mental processing speed,
• Multi-sensory processing,
• Self control,
• Self confidence
• The ability to process spoken language

What is Cognitive training? 

Cognitive training consists of a variety of exercises designed to help improve functioning in areas such as sustaining attention, memory, thinking before acting, visual and auditory processing, listening and reading. The principle behind cognitive training is to help improve the "core" abilities and self-control necessary before an individual can function successfully academically. The exercises "drill for skill" directly in the areas the areas where specific cognitive difficulties occur.

Since this approach requires repetition and one to one instruction, the computer is the easiest and most cost effective way to implement this type of program. The computer also provides the option of game like structure to motivate clients to complete the training. Cognitive training is awesome for the inattentive student.

Research related to Cognitive Training is available on the website

It is suggested that a client spend 2-3 hours a week in cognitive training. Software can be purchased and used at home or you may pay usage fees at the Center.

Our Cognitive training programs are 

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Sound Smart,-Auditory and Attention building

 Captain's Log-Complete Mental Gym-Attention, Memory, Visual & Auditory Processing Disorders, & Brain Injury

Smart Driver-Visual Skills and Visual Attention

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What can you expect The Listening Program ^TM to do?

Improvement in auditory processing is just the beginning ...    Incredible care has been taken to use expertise from the best minds in the field to create an auditory therapy program that is easy to do at home, is immensely enjoyable, and also extremely successful in strengthening auditory and related abilities. Here is a program that can benefit anyone, but especially individuals who have difficulties in the areas of auditory perception, processing, and memory.

The Listening Program^TM has helped individuals make improvements in many areas, including the following:

• Attention span and focus
• Speech and motor control
• Auditory perception and sensitivity
• Musical expression
• Self-esteem, mood, and motivation
• Social interaction
• Understanding spoken language
• Reading, spelling, and handwriting
• Physical balance and coordination - sensory integration

The Listening Program^TM was designed to help balance, strengthen, and/or restore our ability to listen to and process sounds across the full auditory spectrum, from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. This can result in striking improvements across the human continuum, from academic performance to emotional balance.

Using The Listening Program ^TM literally exercises and tones tiny muscles in the ear and helps build stronger multi-sensory pathways in the brain. The brain receives especially rich auditory stimulation, and its ability to process sound improves.

The Listening Program^TM may help with:

• Attention problems / ADD
• Learning disabilities and dyslexia
• Difficulties processing and retaining auditory information
• Difficulty following directions
• Articulation problems
• Language problems
• Reading comprehension problems
• Monotone voice or sing/song voice
• Central auditory processing difficulties
• Easily distracted by sound
• Overly sensitive to sound
• Low energy level and lack of confidence
• Vestibular problems, including balance and coordination
• Difficulty with communications and social interactions
• History of ear infections or middle ear fluid
• Hearing loss related difficulties
• Sleep problems

The Listening Program requires fifteen-thirty minutes (depending on age and sensitivity) five days a week.

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Benefits of Light and Sound

• Enhance your musical experience
• Restores balance and attentional flexibility
• Psychological stress relief
• Deep relaxation
• Assistance in falling asleep/Induces Theta state
• Memory improvement-“sets” reading material for better recall
• Increase learning-sharpens concentration
• Stabilize emotions/alter moods
• Increase intellectual focus-clear and positive thinking
• Sensory stimulation-spawns neural pathways
• Increase physical energy and creativity-releases endomorphins
• Stimulates immune system for better health
• Increased well being

  Frequently asked Questions about Light and Sound is on our website

  Seven Specific Purposes for light and Sound  is on our website

For more information: there is an article by Len Ochs, Ph.D. New Light on Lights, Sounds, and the Brain on our website

Light and sound has a short-term benefit of inducing the desired brain state. The long-term benefits are the spawning of neural pathways for optimum perfomance. So the more you use it the faster you build those neural pathways for optimum attention. There is no minimum or maximum.

Light and sound units and be purchased or you can pay usage fees at the center. It is a suggested purchase for all graduates.

You will receive a free light and sound session with your testing fees.

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Brain Builder

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For children and adults at home, school and the office.

Brain Builder can:

• Increase short-term memory capacity
• Improve auditory and visual sequential processing 
• Raise cognitive processing speed 
• Develop visualization and conceptualization skills 
• Improve attention and concentration 
• Enhance listening, reading and self-expression 
• Increase mental efficiency and organization
• Increase confidence through reduced confusion   
• Enhance communication and social interactions
• Support growth in emotional intelligence

The principle behind Brain Builder is exercise. The more you exercise your brain's fundamental processing capacities, the stronger, more efficient and more organized they become. As the pathways of your neural network proliferate and deepen, so too will your ability to absorb and process information quickly and easily. 

Brain Builder is at your own pace. The more you use it the faster you will see the benefits. No minimum or maximum.

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Neurofeedback

• Enhances ability to focus,
• Lessens distractibility,
• Enhances visual tracking skills
• Increases time on task,
• Enhances discriminatory processing,
• Improves short term memory sequencing
• Improves self esteem

For a complete transformation into successful living

 “Change Your Mind... and change your life.”

Info and Questions on our system and EEG Feedback in general is on our website

Neurofeedback requires around forty hours on the unit. Individual coaching time does not count for on the unit time. Two to three sessions per week are minimum. The slower you are pacing the slower you will see results.

Neurofeedback is widely known for its success for attention building skills. It does require a one on one coach. Therefore, it is our most expensive treatment. However, it is also our best program for building skills essential for success in school and life. We are talking about training the brain they/you will be depending on for the rest of their/your life.

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Therapeutic Music

HEMI-SYNC® can:

Help you to relax

Enhance contemplation and problem solving

 Provide relief from stress

Improve sensory processing and integration 

Increase attention and enhance memory 

Increase learning, concentration, and focus 

Enhance problem solving and self confidence

Optimize the potential of children 

Support a restful interlude or sleep

Link to questions and answers about Hemi Sync^® is available on the website

Therapeutic music has a short-term benefit of inducing the desired brains state. The long-term benefit is the spawning of neural pathways. So the more you use it the faster you build those neural pathways for optimum attention. There is no minimum or maximum.  

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Research shows that natural nutritional supplements can supply the nutrients that support the body’s ability to naturally:

• Help calm and reduce stress and frustration

• Help focus attention and improve concentration

• Help allow smooth, balanced information processing

• Help flush toxins, plaque and free radicals from

   brain pathways

• Helps increase the flow of nutrients, oxygen, and energy to the brain

We carry the leading scientifically formulated supplement that works to help stimulate neural growth patterning and regenerate "connections" within the neural network.

 Memorin+ for Memory Support/
Stimulates Memory & Recall

 The ingredients in this Multidimensional formula have been shown to naturally:

• Help increase oxygen and circulation to the Brain to enhance prompt and quick memory recall strategies
• Help protect the brain from free radical damage
• Help promote neural growth for smooth information processing, understanding and retrieval

Stop struggling with brain strain and upload the nutrition of Memorin+!

Extress for Stress & Nervousness/To
Reduce Hyperactivity and Promote Focus

The specific doctor-formulated nutrition in Extress to maintain your health (and sanity!) in today's fast-paced world. Extress replenishes essential nutrients burned up by the body during times of stress. The ingredients in this Multidimensional formula have been shown to naturally:

• Help diminish emotional sensitivity and mood swings
• Help calm and focus attention
• Help relax muscles safely
• Help reduce the possibility of stress-induced head pain and muscle aches

Nutritional supplements can be purchased online. If you are in a program or have graduated from a program, you can receive a substantial discount when purchasing at the center. The profits from our nutritional supplements go toward the equipment and training of Brevard County Foster Children. 

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