Down Syndrome: Helping to Improve Sensory Processing
If you have a child or know an individual with Down Syndrome, you are familiar with their unique characteristics. While they do develop more slowly than neurotypical children, they nevertheless are typically able to reach developmental milestones.
Peak Performance in Adolescents: How Listening Skills Can Optimize Executive Functioning
One of the crucial tasks of brain development during adolescence is to grow and develop the part of the brain needed for executive functioning. This is called the prefrontal cortex. Maturation of executive functioning is a hallmark of adulthood. Some of the markers of adolescence, such as moodiness and impulsivity, occur precisely because the executive functioning center is still maturing.
Learning About Attention Helps Us Inform Individualized Treatment and Learning Strategies
What do we mean when we tell someone to pay attention to us? How can we tell they’re not paying attention? And what parts of the brain come into play when someone is (or isn’t) paying attention? While these questions are very interesting to many of us, they're especially so to parents with ADHD children. Plus, adults who have ADHD or other neurological differences will also find them relevant. After all, these underlying issues with attention contribute to so many of the challenges that pop up in the classroom and elsewhere.
Is It Possible to Optimize Aspects of Auditory Processing That Are Tied to Attention?
For reasons that aren’t fully understood yet, children who have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) are also at risk for having more sensory processing problems.
Reading, Attention, and Learning Performance: Can Adults Improve Too?
Even though children’s learning and behavioral difficulties receive the most attention, many adults also struggle with them.
Twice-Exceptional Children: Brilliant or Learning Disabled
Children who are identified as twice-exceptional students encounter unique challenges in the classroom and in life. “Twice-exceptional” [...]
Sensory Sensitivities: Auditory, Tactile, and Vestibular—Finding Solutions
Individuals with sensory sensitivities process external stimulation differently than neurotypical individuals. They can both overreact and underreact to sensorial input. Sounds that are normal to most people might be so upsetting that they prompt great emotional upset
What Role Do Sound-Based Interventions Play in Autism Treatment?
Children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often display sensitivity to auditory input. Other behavioral differences are also common. Certain sounds may trigger great fear, anger, and emotional outbursts. Even the thought of encountering such sounds can create problems.
Sound Interventions: Supervised or At-Home—How Do They Compare?
Sound intervention training can be done both supervised in-office or at-home. While the convenience of at-home intervention is appealing to a lot of parents, many considerations come into play in order to make a well-informed decision.