Children
Many children struggle with school work, whether its a lack of focus or difficulty approaching academic tasks. Interactive Metronome has been proven to enhance focus for clients and we have seen this in our patients!
Through the use of IM children experience being focused and attentive. At IMagine IMprovement and throughout the IM industry parents, teachers, others in the child’s life experience the positive results of IM.
IM strengthens fine and gross motor functions, mobility, and many fundamental cognitive capabilities such as planning, organizing and language.
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) can benefit from IM.
One TBI study shows improvement in sensory integration, memory, processing speed, impulsivity, and attention after just fifteen sessions.
Adults
Interactive Metronome can help improve regulation of self control, expressive and receptive language, and many other features of the brain that can contribute to anxiety.
The domain-general mechanism of timing is a “jack of all trades” mechanism that manifests itself in sleep cycles, speech patterns, overall efficacy of brain communication, and even memory.
This timing in the brain, or temporal processing, has been shown to be deficient in several common conditions, including MS. Interactive Metronome is the only training program that improves timing in the brain in an organized, systematic, flexible and engaging format.
Conditions like Parkinson’s highlight the connection between the brain and body; it also shows how important it is for the brain to be working at peak efficiency.
Strokes, or cerebrovascular accidents can cause problems with movement, speech, cognition and vision. IM training physiologically changes the brain by helping to synchronize the functional brain networks.
Interactive Metronome can help brain injury sufferers by working to physiologically change the functional brain networks that control rhythm and timing since timing is a domain-general mechanism.