ADHD EXPERT, DR. EDWARD HALLOWELL, FINDS LITTLE KNOWN LEARNING AID AND VOWS TO SPREAD THE "TOO-WELL-KEPT SECRET"
Deceptively simple, drug-free therapy validated through new brain science, is now part of "strength-based" ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorders) and learning model championed by Dr. Hallowell at his prestigious Hallowell Centers as well as to parents, educators and medical community.
With Attention Deficit and brain training topics so hotly discussed these days, it is important to watch how new brain research is unlocking long-standing
mysteries, explaining how the brain trains itself and how human beings develop their superior cognitive skills. New scanning tools are advancing neurology's understanding of a process called neuroplasticity and shedding light on a simple looking, 30 year old balance and movement regimen called the Learning Breakthrough Program that former Harvard professor, bestselling author and ADHD authority, Dr. Edward Hallowell, has just introduced to his Boston and NYC medical centers."Tell teachers, tell other adults and professionals, tell the world that there is a too-well-kept secret that can help kids with so-called learning differences become champions. I am convinced that this is the most exciting treatment to appear since the advent of stimulant medication in 1937." -- Dr. Ed Hallowell
The Hallowell Centers will be using the structured program as part of their comprehensive "strength-based" treatment model described in several of Hallowell's bestselling books. After first meeting Learning Breakthrough's inventor in 2006, Dr. Hallowell has taken up the cause of informing the world that this drug-free therapy is a wonderful complement to nearly all other treatment and educational approaches. It offers a cost effective, easy to use, home based way to employ what Hallowell calls, "a neuro-stimulation treatment that helps those suffering from attention and learning challenges get to the root of the problem instead of merely treating the symptoms."
One of Hallowell's objectives in approaching the pediatric clients that visit his centers is to decrease the need for IEP's (Individual Educational Programs) and get students back into mainstream curriculums. This strength-based intervention model improves academic standing, helps overcome challenges like ADHD and dyslexia, reduces pull-out services frees up special education resources, decreases medication side effects, improves workforce readiness, and provides other benefits long associated with cognitive improvement.
Advancements in neurological scanning and investigation tools (FMRI, SPECT, QEEG, etc.) are helping to explain how certain "low tech" feeling programs actually alter neurochemistry, improve brain reaction times, and recalibrate the fundamental organizing functions that our brains perform.
Dr. Hallowell states, "By looking into the underling learning structures and how the brain develops we are seeing a model for strengthening our natural abilities and unlocking natural gifts that formally were hidden behind negative diagnoses, labels and ineffective therapies."
The Learning Breakthrough Program is a series of simple looking movement and eye-tracking exercises done on a uniquely designed balance board. It is based on a model that describes how the brain organizes sensory inputs, strengthens itself and calibrates sensory information so that a client's brain adapts over time to improve its own function. Scientific observations are confirming that uncapped innate abilities lie behind remarkably simple neurological barriers. Removing these barriers is the essence of the neuroplasticy model and the impetus behind Learning Breakthrough's development. Users report improved abilities and grades in reading, writing and mathematics as well as better memory, comprehension, focus, communications skills, self-esteem and athletic ability.
"It is crucial that the world of education reject the disability model and replace it with a strength--based model, a model that asserts every brain possesses talents. It is up to teachers and parents to work with students to develop those talents. Learning Breakthrough has fashioned unique and powerful tools to do just that." - Dr. Hallowell
Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is a former Harvard Medical School faculty member, noted psychiatrist and leading authority on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. He is the author of the national best sellers, Driven to Distraction, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, Delivered from Distraction in addition to many other publications. He lectures around the country while maintaining a private practice at the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Boston and New York. His recent book, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap earned honors in the prestigious Books for Better Life awards in March 2007. Dr. Hallowell has been prominently featured on 20/20, Oprah, Dateline, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, and 60 Minutes.
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