Why Brain Balance

Brain Balance does not require that a participant has a medical diagnosis, nor do we clinically diagnose medical conditions. Our focus is on understanding the struggles and helping to develop and strengthen the connections in the brain to help reduce the struggles.

For those who do have a diagnosis¹, research has shown that the unique challenges kids face can be linked to weak connections across different regions of the brain.

We Help Those Who Experience:

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
• Processing Disorders – Auditory (APD), Visual, Sensory (SPD)
• Learning Disorders (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia)

The good news is, we know that the brain can change in a way that leads to improvements in these symptoms. The Brain Balance program exercises and activities are uniquely designed to help strengthen and build new connections by using a combination of physical, sensory, and cognitive activities. These new, efficient, and effective connections in the brain lead to improvements in our ability to complete cognitive tasks and in our executive functioning:

By building stronger brain connections, you can help yourself or your child get to the root of their challenges and build a stronger foundation for success.

Strengthening the brain’s connections contribute to improvements in the ability to process, be present and engage with the world around you. These improvements naturally occur over time through growth and development, but for some, disruptions in the development of critical functions result in challenges. By improving underlying connections and abilities, improvements can be made in the cognitive and executive functions needed to excel in life!

Improved attention, focus and impulse control. Enhanced mood and management of frustrations and upsets. Heightened memory, logic and reasoning. Better ability to handle transitions and change. Increased social interactions and confidence. These are the changes we experience daily at Brain Balance!

• Negative emotionality: Worries, anxiety, mood, low self-esteem, easily experiences hurt feelings
• Hyperactive/disruptive: impulsive or erratic behavior, difficulty remaining seated for mealtime or work time, argumentative/oppositional, needs reminders to keep hands/feet/body to themselves
• Academic disengagement: lacks motivation with regard to school and schoolwork, work is inconsistent, frequently brings home work due to not completing assignments, does not consistently turn work in on time, makes careless mistakes and errors
• Motor/coordination problems: clumsiness, struggles with balance, awkward movements with tasks such as running, poor gross motor skills, and delayed motor milestones
• Social communication problems: difficulty reading body language/nonverbal social cues, lacks empathy/may be insensitive to feelings of others, unaware of what others think of them, difficulty understanding humor/sarcasm, difficulty forming friendships, poor pragmatic skills
• Reading/writing problems: struggles to read independently, frequently repeats/skips lines, omits small words, makes mistakes, reverses numbers/letters

Brain Balance tracks and measures a wide array of data and progresses every step of the way to ensure the best possible program outcomes for each participant.  Improvement in these functional categories drive the changes that support improvements in attention, emotions, behaviors and overall wellbeing.  

Data measured throughout the program includes:

• Cognition; attention, working memory, logic and reasoning
• Visual system; processing speed, reaction time, coordination and accuracy of movements
• Balance
• Coordination
• Timing
• Core strength
• Primitive Reflexes