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many children with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder show signs of the
condition before they reach school age
but usually it's in school where they
start having trouble meeting
expectations and experiencing challenges
but with patience and an effective plan
your child can thrive in the classroom
and beyond joining me today is Rebecca
Jackson from brain balance achievement
centers which offers a program with a
unique whole child approach that is
non-medical drug-free and is helping
children get back on track which is what
we want good morning laughs hi thank you
thanks for being here I want to touch
upon first Rebecca that non-medical
drug-free approach
I like that because as a mom and I'm
just going to put my opinion here you
know I tend to not like children having
medication I'm a little bit against it
right absolutely there's a time in a
place but the parents reaching out to us
the parents calling us every day are
looking for change right they're not
looking for a coping strategy the goal
is not to mask the symptoms they're
really looking to set their child up for
success going forward which is why they
reach out to bring balance and your
program not only just helps children
with ADHD it goes beyond that with other
diagnosis right absolutely in fact
probably about half of the children in
our centers don't have a label or
diagnosis at all but they simply
struggle so a lot of the kids that we
work with may struggle with paying
attention in class getting their
homework done and turned in they may
struggle making and keeping friends they
may struggle keeping up academically so
the kids that we work with have areas of
struggle that we're able to have a
positive impact on and change now many
kids in center do also have labels so we
work with a lot of children with labels
such as ADHD Asperger's - autism
different learning disabilities dyslexia
the list sort of goes on and on but that
common denominator is we work with kids
that struggle and we're able to help
make things better we went to the brain
balance achievement center in pembroke
pines florida it was really great to be
there take a look
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that was so great and a lot of fun yes
alright so how does it work we all know
that exercise is good for the body but
did you know that exercise is good for
the brain
common sense right so we're able to do
very specific exercises and activities
that wake up different parts of the
brain so when we start to utilize all of
the different senses in our body in a
very particular way as well as physical
activities involving coordination and
timing and not only do we do them but we
do them all at the same time to combine
the effects when we do this it starts to
wake up all these different regions of
the brain and this starts to help to
make things click and improve and we
start to see better more efficient
function both of my children have gotten
to do the program and my husband and I
do this together so this is sort of a
family thing for us in fact if you go to
the website on the homepage of the
website and there's a couple of videos
and I talked a little bit about my
children in their experience on those
videos but beyond just being able to
help our own shoulder and we've gotten
to work with family with friends with
neighbors we feel like we've really
gotten to have an impact on our
community I even got to see it as well I
got to sit down with two parents whose
children go to the brain balance
achievement Center in Pembroke Pines
Florida and here's what they had to say
very special in school very similar he
would want to do well but then he would
come home very distraught because he
couldn't perform well or he thought he
wasn't doing well we look for resources
to find the right teacher to find the
right treatment to find the right place
the right center and when we came to
brain balance they opened our arms and
said we can help you and now it's like
after bringing him to brain balance it's
like he's he's with it he's on the
program he gets it like he's just like
up to speed on everything it's like you
wouldn't pick him out of the crowd like
any different from anybody else today my
son will succeed today I'm
some will make it and see them struggle
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sorry and then you know just the kind of
turnaround it's it's fantastic it's not
the way to say it it's just so great to
hear a parent's so happy because they
want their children to succeed it's just
fabulous
nationwide these centers are the initial
way we are we have over a hundred
centers nationwide and so we get to help
kids all across the country but what's
been so again neat and amazing to me is
how many families we've had reached out
to us beyond just the US just in my
centers alone we've had families come to
us from New Zealand from Australia Wow
other centres we've had families from
Turkey from India from all over the
world it's kids struggle and we have an
opportunity to reduce that struggle and
make things better and as a parent we do
what we can to just set our kids up for
success like you said you're really
making a difference thank you for our
viewers who'd like more information on
the brain balance achievement centers
where do they go
brain balance calm thank you thank you
for being here thank you for letting us
go to your website there's a lot of fun
it was great of course if you'd like
more information you can go to our
website and that's thebalancingact.com
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