The whole child and IM.

Another fine example of someone who really knows kids!!! I love these stories. It gives me hope that there are many more of these truly gifted people out there. Although I have met very few myself.

Thanks for sharing. Good luck with the IM!!!

Wish I could say that our provider connected with my son that well. She’s trying really hard, but he’s hard to manage. Hey, if he could focus better and do silly hand and foot motions easily he wouldn’t need IM now would he?

We are about 5 sessions into the program (after 6 sessions to get him synchronized) and I’m still hoping… Its so hard to separate out the different things going on though. He was really well regulated on our recent vacation, but back to being kinda obsessive this week. Well, its back to school time. So who knows what’s what.

Linda, keep us posted and I’ll do the same.

Lu Lu,

Every once and awhile I find someone who can really help my son. When I find someone like that it catches me by surprise, “sigh.” Some people have a gift for understanding children.

Karen,

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I keep telling this myself too. I think, “Wow, if he can get to the point where he can focus on something this boring and difficult, focusing on math will just be a breeze.
Yes, it will be interesting to see how these two puzzle kids do.

We are 6 sessions into the IM program (after 6 pre-sessions) and today he had a breakthrough in the sense that his scores came way down. (She’s not giving us total scores so I don’t know the number) and he had many instances of “bursts” (being on the beat in a row for at least 4 beats)

So - I’m waiting. I’m thrilled he’s making progress and he feels some satisfaction but I am wondering when we’ll see some improvement in his real life functioning. Does anyone know when you start to see the benefits??

Karen N,

My son also had a good day. He was able to focus after she adjusted the sounds. We still have one more presession.

That will make it 6 presessions, just like your boy.

It will be so hard to tell when they are working with my little mister inconsistant.
At times he can be right on with something, then he will just fall apart with the same exact thing the next time.

Congrats on the progress. It gives me hope.

Linda

The effects of IM are so hard to pin point. Again,my kids have done so many programs,except Pace and Vand V. The biggest change I noticed is interest in physical activities and homework. Not sure if it the desire for engaging in the physical activities or less frustration doing homewrok,but this is our second week into school and they go right to the homework without complaint,and there attention is sustained. THIS is the biggest thing. They can sustain their attention to things. My youngest is into skating and my oldest is into skateboarding,they practice and practice. They have had homework every night. They don’t get rattled and upset,they keep at it. Know what I’m saying?
It’s almost more an emotional effect then an academic one.

I hear you. But with these kids (heck, with everyone really..) emotions are affected by their ability to do whatever they want to do!

We’ve found our son to be generally more relaxed and focused this summer. School doesn’t start until sept. 9, and then we have the anniversary of 9/11 , and the onset of all the other activities too. So I expect his anxiety to increase that week. He should be finished with IM by then if he keeps up the pace he is going at. Just hoping IM will help him focus and integrate all the other stuff we are doing with him. We are mostly looking for a positive impact in his reading skills because he has the pieces but has great difficulty in putting it together. But if we get some improvement with utensils, awareness of his surroundings etc like I’ve heard reported here I’ll still be thrilled!