As a developmental disorder, the child has missed out
on what he needed to learn in that first year of life
He needed to learn emotional self regulation, physical awareness
how to interact with the world
Say thank you
Thank you
You're welcome Josh
- See you later - See you later
Yeah, I'll see you later
Since that right brain that was maturing in that first year
did not learn how to calm down
we have now, even many years later,
we have a right brain that is sort of on fire
Everything to this type of brain is overwhelming
which is why often times Autistic individuals like things to be very routine and very predictable
There is no real medical model for treating Autism
I definitely feel that Neurofeedback fills that hole
2 years ago, I was completely non-verbal. - Lily
I'm going to be a Shamu trainer
because I have to train Shamu
2 months ago, I wasn't interested in my brothers. - Eric
Somebody get me force, he's got me, help ... wham, wham, wham..
3 months ago, I avoided all contact. - Josh
awe, thank you Josh
you did a great job
One in one hundred and fifty kids
is struck with autism.
Neurofeedback helped change
the lives of these families.
It's been such an emotional roller coaster with him over the years
of having Autism, going to school, not going to school
We were told it was gas, we were told it was, you know, she was sensitive
or maybe she was allergic to certain foods or whatever, but
now we know it was sensory integration disorder
you know, related to Autism
All of the sudden I heard a lady yell
Why are you yelling at me? You shouldn't be yelling at me young man!
I looked at her and I said, "Is there a problem here?"
She goes, "Your son was yelling at me and I think that's very disrespectful."
"Ok, He's got Autism and he makes noises, but I don't think he was yelling at you."
"Well, he should wear a sign or something that says I have Autism."
We like to think of Neurofeedback as a brain excercise
where we're specifically exercising the brain's ability to manage it's own states
so to be calm enough, to be awake enough
to be focused enough to do what you want to do
is the goal
It's like brain yoga in a way
you know, there is a stretching and a strengthening
this type of brain exercise
I think can really have a profound effect on helping people
just feel and function the way... the way they were meant to
and just like a mother wants to shape the child's behavior
we do this one level down at the level of brain behavior
Good job
I know some moms that have kids that are really autistic
and have a hard time getting them to bed, getting them to eat
getting them up to go to school, and they haven't seen Neurofeedback
and I'm glad I found it
ERIC
Here's how it goes, at 3:05 the door swings open and there in the other room stands Nora
You may come in. Come along
What Neurofeedback basically is
is that it's a process whereby a person is essentially learning to exercise their own brain wave activity
oh boy, oh boy!!
and this is a very non invasive process
and it's extremely powerful
You want to do the alien ship this time? - mmmhm
Ok, we'll do that
What you're doing is, you're sitting in front of a video screen
you know, it looks to you like you're looking at some kind if video game
and there are electrode sensors that are attached to your scalp
Nora puts some cat saliva on to my ears and puts some cords into my head
This thing, it feels like a cat's licking me
I know, it's kind of gritty and wet
I was really afraid when she went to stick the electrodes to his scalp
I was afraid he'd freak out over that, because he doesn't really like things touching him
He responded to that really well
I select which game we should play
either Roller Ball or the ship one
The feedback process is one in which we show you what your brain is doing
and we typically show you in terms of a game
so video, audio video display
that proceeds when your brain calms down
and does not proceed when you are not calming down
so you are step by step rewarded for going in a calming direction
The most rewarding thing is just seeing how happy he is
and also how happy the rest of his family is
It's incredible not just what Neurofeedback does for individuals
but for all the people around them
Lily
and that is the map of the whole states of the United States of America
I think Neurofeedback has allowed Lily to
go beyond one dimension
I think it was in our second month of Neurofeedback
and Lily, I was thinking about something and I looked serious
and Lily came up to me and she said
Are you ok mom? And it just floored me.
and because anyone who has a child on the spectrum
knows that they have real challenges reading non verbal queues.
much less facial expressions
so that was huge
Brian
We found our way to Neurofeedback through the needs of our children
and our older son had temporal lobe epilepsy
But also could easily have also been diagnosed Asperger's
could have been diagnosed Tourette's
his brain was disregulated and disfunctional in a number of ways
Our son was not comfortable in this world
He couldn't, there was no human interaction
which was positive for him, including with his parents
When you have a child like that, there are no easy answers
You know as a parent you try lots of things
and nothing fixes it
so you have to just, you know plod on and do the things that are
that get you a little bit
and when we discovered Neurofeedback
we took him to another therapist who was doing this
It was so profoundly helpful for him
that it got our attention and we ended up getting involved in the field
so I learned, probably most of what I learned, I learned from Brian
As a matter of fact our own son's case is a paradigm
for what we now do with the Autistic children
It's really remarkable how just a very simple set of training techniques
makes such a profound difference.
This is generally true of Neurofeedback
is that we are, it's kind of like physical exercise
We're getting the person healthier and stronger and more resilient from the inside out
instead of trying to beat down or contain or destroy the symptoms
and that's a beautiful process for the person who's experiencing it
and also of course for the family
The first thing was sleep. Literally after the first session her sleep was awesome.
From what I have seen in my own practice and
from Doctor Pineda's study, I definitely see it as becoming very much more mainstream
especially because it's non-invasive
and it helps a lot of other comorbidities
for example insomnia, A.D.D.
Another area we were working on with Eric is focusing and concentrating
eleven minus two is eleven?
and he would sit down to do his homework
and... mom I need this, mom I need that, oh look over there
He will now sit and go through a deck of flashcards voluntarily
through the whole deck, flip them over, do the other side
all by himself, no distractions. It's amazing.
The kids started seeing that she was more like them than she wasn't
I strongly feel, the more we do now
and the more work from the inside out we do
the less we are going to do later
I don't know a lot about Neurofeedback
I know enough to see the changes
because of seeing him in that chair and him be down
and then five ten minutes later be excited about something
Any parent wants to see their child be successful
and feel happy
so for us it's huge because
oh no, because that's all... that's my goal
Cognitively she's going to be great. She's going to do fine
but however, the processing systems interfere with cognition
and if you don't support the processing systems
and support a happy child,
If you don't have a happy child what do you have?
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