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Choosing a Speech, Occupation Therapist
or a Neurofeedback Practioner is one of the most important decisions you can make. You want someone who is caring, accessible
and knowledgeable. Someone who is willing to take the time to go over all of your options and treat you as a person, not just
a patient.
At our practice, we pride ourselves on our patient service. We offer
a knowledgeable staff, safe and proven procedures, Technology and the latest information in the field of Speech Pathology,
Occupational Therapy and the complementary modality, Neurofeedback.
We will use our temporary website
to introduce you to Speech and Language Therapy, Therapeutic Listening, Occupational Therapy, and the innovative Complementary
modality that is known as Neurofeedback.
Speech-Language
Pathology
Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), who are often informally known as Speech Therapists, are professionals that
are educated in the study of human communication, its development, and its related disorders.
By assessing the speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing skills of children and adults, speech-language
pathologists can determine what types of communication problems exist and the best way to treat these challenges.
Speech-Language Pathologists typically treat problems in the areas of articulation; dysfluency; oral-motor, speech,
voice; and receptive , expressive language disorders, as well as swallowing disorders in order to improve one's quality
of life.
Therapeutic Listening
Therapeutic Listening is a technique of complementary
medicine that uses music in a skilled manner. Therapeutic Listening Programs are designed to help patients overcome physical,
emotional, intellectual, and social challenges. Applications range from improving the well being of geriatric patients in
nursing homes, and students in order to lowering one's stress level, or reduce the discomfort of women in labor.
Music is readily used in many settings,
including schools, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, hospice, nursing homes, community
centers, and sometimes even in the home.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapists help people of all ages regain,
develop, or master everyday skills in order to live independent, productive, and satisfying lives.
Occupational Therapists assess clients with physical
and mental challenges in order to develop activities of daily living (ADL) that work best for those clients. For a client
with a physical disability, the first focus is on performing critical daily routines, such as dressing, grooming, bathing,
and eating.
Once these basic skills are mastered, a program is then
built around the skills needed to perform tasks such as participating in education, caring for a home and family, or seeking
and maintaining employment.
Neurofeedback
What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback is a
complementary modality that is drug free, painless, non-invasive, safe learning strategy
that has been availble for over 30 years. Neurofeedback that enables a person to alter their brain waves in order to
improve attention, reduce impulsivity, and to control hyperactive behaviors. It is based on the Basic Principles of Operant Conditioning and Learning Theory .
Neurofeedback is based on electrical brain
activity, the EEG or electroencephalogram. The user is provided with realtime
feedback on brainwave activity, when the desired brain activity is achieved a positive
"reward" feedback is given to the individual, all the while blocking or inhibiting the undesired brain wave
activity.
Like the
acquisition any skill this is a gradual learning process. It applies to any aspect of brain function that we can measure.
How Does Neurofeedback
Work?
Brainwave activity is measured with an electroencephalograph
(EEG). The EEG Biofeedback equipment is connected to the individual with sensors that are placed on the scalp and ears. The
sensors are safe, do not prick or penetrate the skin, and are painless. After adequate connection to the scalp and ears
are made, the individual's brainwave activity can be observed on a computer monitor.
Clients are then taught to play computerized
games using their brainwave activity. Changes in client brainwave activity are fed back to the individual through visual and/or
auditory information by the computer. One example is a game where clients move a figure through a maze (similar to the popular
pac-man game). The figure does not move because of the client's motor activity (e.g., pushing a button or moving a stick).
Instead, the figure moves whenever the client produces specific brainwave patterns. When desired levels of brainwave activity
occur, the individual is reinforced, because the figure moves through the maze.
By this method, clients learn to change
brainwave activity. Clients also practice maintaining learned brainwave states when engaged in school- or work-related tasks
(e.g., reading, writing). This will help them use what they learned in Neurofeedback in their daily activities.
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