To effectively manage alertness, students with attention deficit need to continually monitor, change and maintain the level of alertness that is "just right" for the activity at hand. Sensory Alert uses the Alert Program developed by Occupational Therapists Sherry Shellenberger and Mary Sue Williams. It teaches students how to use sensory motor activities to self-regulate their alertness for any task.
Focus Moves
Movement Activities For Attention and Learning
To develop the attention needed for success in school and life, the minds and bodies of ADHD students must work in unison to stay alert and learn. Focus Moves are movement activities students learn to integrate their minds and develop perceptual motor skills needed for attention and learning, such as: controlling balance and midline movement; coordinating lateral movement; managing spatial sequencing; and coordinating dual motor and mental tasks.
Attention Lab
Cognitive Training For Attention and Memory
The Attention Lab is a clinical treatment program that addresses attention as a multi-level process. It provides a hierarchical method of retraining attention and is based on extensive clinical research in cognitive rehabilitation. The training strengthens specific attention processes critical to improving ADHD, such as: sustained, selective, alternating and divided attention.
Cognitive Lifestyle
Family Lifestyle For Attention Development
Family lifestyle and communications can contribute to ADHD children enhancing their thinking abilities and emotion control. Parents learn ways to create the parenting style and daily activities needed to help their ADHD children develop the following: control anger and frustration; enhance thinking and attention; transition from one task to another; brainstorm, manage time and plan; and express feelings.
ADHD Intensive
Strengthening Mental Processes That Impact Attention
Most traditional treatments to improve Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children, adolescents and adults center around stimulant drugs and behavior modification. While these approaches have a positive effect on ADHD for most people, they do not improve the underlying mental processes that impact attention deficit. So, in addition to drugs and behavior modification, many people take advantage of methods that strengthen the underlying mental processes.
This is how the ADHD Intensive Programcan help you. The program provides a multi-dimensional approach to improve attention deficit, and complements other treatments you may be receiving. The program helps strengthen the mental and physical processes that impact ADHD:
Perceptual Motor Abilities: Mental and physical integration for learning
Attention processes: Sustained, selective, divided, and alternating attention
Memory: Visual and auditory memory
Executive function: Planning, organizing, sequencing, and language expression
In addition to in-office client visits, we teach parents activities and exercises they can use at home with their ADHD children to continue development throughout the week. The following briefly explains the five components of the ADHD Intensive program.
