I just reviewed some math concepts with my son. I am amazed at his improvement in this area since doing IM.
We were doing multiplication, division, place value etc. He is like a different child. He just gets it.
I haven’t seen an improvement with reading or really writing but the math jump has been truely amazing.
I think his problem was with sequencing. He never seemed to get what comes before 100 or after 1000. He had trouble finding the page he needed in a book. He couldn’t seem to figure out if he went up or down from 55 to get to 65. We did it so many times and he just couldn’t grasp the whole concept of sequencing. It really cured this particular problem.
I say this thinking it might help another child with a similar profile.
Re: OOPS! I bungled that. Subject should be what is IM?
IM = Interactive metronome. www.interactivemetronome.com
It is discussed quite a bit around here. A few of us have done it with our children.
I just wanted to give info on this one aspect of change that I saw. I hope it helps.
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I am curious about IM. Where did your son receive the training? Did he fight you about going to the training or did he enjoy it. How long is each session? This is sounding “too good to be true.” If it really does work, we might have found something that will solve a lot of learing problems for a lot of kids Thanks for your info. Angela
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The website has a list of providers. It seems to have had varied results for different kids. I think if your child has severe motor problems they might need occupational therapy first. I think that is what Beth did and her son really did well with IM.
My son had a difficult time with it. He had to do 24 sessions instead of the advertised 15 and he still only got down to 40 ms. He started really high at 250ms. He loved going. I still can’t figure out why he liked it so much. It seems so boring. I think he knew he was improving and that was his motivation. It really was exhausting for him. He would leave there completely spent.
We will most likely do it again.
I saw enough gains with IM that I think I will be able to avoid meds for his attention problems. He still has some issues with attention but he has improved significantly. I am now on a journey to find what will take him the rest of the way.
I am considering PACE, vision therapy and neurofeedback.
PS I took him out of sped after IM. We would not have been able to do that without IM. I don’t think IM is a cure for all LD but it definitely moves some children closer to the non LD realm of things.
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I think all kids can benefit from IM but it isn’t any magic bullet. I am trying to get my 7th grade honor student to do IM in a pilot program at her school. She is in a play that may preclude it. For my son, who has had significiant motor planning problems, it has really been great. He is now one of the best soccer players on his team–which for him has been a real plus!!! But you know there are some kids who have trouble reading, who are wonderfully coordinated.
However, one of the local Catholic highschools had their entire football team do IM. All their grades went up and improvements in standardized testing. It is on the basis of these results that my daughter’s school is offerring it to 4-8th grade kids.
Beth
I am glad your son is blossoming in this way.