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A Mom’s Journey Through ADHD

Lorrie acted as a surrogate reader for her son, who suffered nightly crises over homework. He stretched 45 minute assignments into hours. Incentives didn’t work. She regularly burned the midnight oil finishing work for him because his stamina had drained out long before he could produce all the work due the next morning.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Recognizes Neurofeedback for ADHD

In October of 2012 the American Academy of Pediatrics gave neurofeedback their top rating in application to the behavioral symptoms of ADHD. This means that neurofeedback has met the highest standards currently being applied to the appraisal of psychosocial interventions.

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Parent Training Strength of Floortime™ Play Intervention

After the parents added home-based DIR® Model and Floortime™ Play Intervention at an average of 15.2 hours/week for three months, the intervention group made significantly greater gains in all three measures employed in the study.

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The Power of Floortime™ Play Intervention

Preliminary results from an ongoing randomized controlled trial suggest that children in the DIR® Model and Floortime™ Play Intervention treatment group made significantly greater gains in social interaction skills in comparison to the community treatment group.

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Floortime: What it Is, What it Isn’t

Dr. Stanley Greenspan, M.D. produced hundreds of weekly web based radio programs between 2004 and 2009, addressing different topics on early child development, parenting, infants and children with special needs, principles for healthy relationships, and how to overcome mental health challenges.

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Collier H.U.G.S.

In 2009, an NCEF study on mental illness returned disturbing results: Nearly 20 percent of Collier’s children may be suffering from undiagnosed and untreated behavioral health issues.  H.U.G.S. fills the mental health void by targeting vulnerable children and their families, providing education and early identification of mental health issues.

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What is D.I.R.® Model / Floortime™ Play Intervention?

The DIR®/Floortime™ Model is a framework (developed by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) for understanding and improving interventions with infants, children and adults who have challenges in relating, communicating and thinking, including autism spectrum disorders.

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Parents, Clinicians and Educators Draw “The Big Picture”

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing of a pow­er­fully inno­v­a­tive new frame­work for address­ing behav­ioral issues from infancy to adult­hood you must attend the upcom­ing Early Child­hood Con­fer­ence, March 27, 2010.

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Children are Miracles: A Letter to Parents

When a child is strug­gling with devel­op­men­tal issues, men­tal ill­ness or effects of trauma, my work is to col­lab­o­rate with you in draw­ing your child into joy­ous, con­nected par­tic­i­pa­tion in the world.

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Social Skills Group Goals

Social Skills Group is based on interdisciplinary collaboration with Barb Lindner, MEd, OT/L. The group is designed to help your child thrive in social situations within which he or she currently struggles.

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