Interactive Metronome

The Interactive Metronome

The Interactive Metronome (IM) has been shown to help children with motor planning and sequencing challenges. Many children diagnosed with developmental and learning disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)(H), evidence significant motor planning and sequencing problems. This advanced brain-based treatment program was developed to improve the processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning and sequencing. This, in turn, strengthens motor skills, including fine and gross motor function, mobility, and many fundamental cognitive capacities such as planning, organizing and language.

Therapist and physicians understand the correlation between the neurological functions of motor planning and sequencing and the critical aspects of human development, such as basic thinking, organizing, language processing, academic achievement, and coordination. When a child or adult demonstrates a deficit in motor planning and sequencing, it is typically accompanied by problems in learning, coordination, or behavioral control.

Prior to the development of Interactive Metronome Inc. (IM), therapists were able to identify patients with these difficulties, but there was no system for measurable assessment and improvement. Today we know how to measure a child’s motor planning and sequencing abilities, and we can show functional improvements in a short period of time.

According to Stanley I. Greenspan, MD, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Interactive Metronome (IM) and noted psychiatrist, the Interactive Metronome (IM) may be benefit children with motor planning and sequencing challenges and, therefore, should be considered as a part of a comprehensive program for children with developmental, learning, and attention problems that involves this underlying difficult, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, and who are able to collaborate in the IM training program. The reason for this is that IM training focuses on and improves rhythmicity and timing – critical foundations in learning to plan and sequence actions and thoughts.

Over the course of the treatment, patients learn to:

• Focus and attend for longer periods of time
• Increase physical endurance and stamina
• Filter out internal and external distractions
• Improve fine and gross motor function
• Improve their ability to monitor mental and physical actions as they are occurring
• Progressively improve performance

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