I can’t get this idea of interactive metronome out of my head — I’ve read the website and info and it really seems like it is exactly what my son needs. Would you mind telling me more about it…like:
how long did it take to complete the program? How long was each session and how many sessions per week?
you said your son was 9 — I don’t get how a 9 year old could accomplish the same coordination tasks as high school students? My son is only 7 1/2 and in first grade but the web site says they do it on children as young as 6. His primary diagnosis is motor delay although you wouldn’t notice it now.
did you see benefits right away or not until he finished? again don’t see how my son could possibly achieve the same level as a 16 year old (I’m thinking of the website examples)
you said it helped with attention — did you see any other benefits..like fine motor, speech or processing?
I’m seriously thinking of pulling my son out of school so that we can finish Fast Forward and do IM. We’re considering doing a LMB intensive this summer (his testing showed that he needs LiPS/SI as well as V/V) but I think he’d get more out of it if we did these two things first.
I’m on the loose! Thanks for any help you can give me.
Mary7777
Re: Beth in FL-- a question for you...
I think I answered your questons on the parenting BB. As Janis says, we had done Neuronet before IM and went back to it afterwards. It is sometimes hard to separate out the effects of therapies because of that. I will tell you as far as lasting effects that my son did a quick test in our soccer park with IM, which was being marketed for sports improvements (which my son def. saw), and came out dead average for a kid who had not done IM before. Now he had much lower scores when he finished the program but his pretests had been three times higher than his soccer park score. And this was outside and with kids screaming all around. So I do think we saw a permanent change. What I honestly think NN did was work on his vestibular system which made the gains much easier.
After my son did IM, our NN provider started requiring IM for certain types of kids.
I will still say you are trying to do too much with your child. FFW is an intensive program which took us all of one summer. IM is also auditory and you never want to do two auditory programs at once.
Beth
Beth apparently hasn’t seen this yet, but do keep in mind her son was also doing another therapy called NeuroNet. Someone on my APD list posted the other day about what to do about increasing processing speed and IM was mentioned. Then a couple of parents posted that they had children who did IM with no lasting results. So you have to understand that IM may or may not help at all and it may depend on what other therapies are done in combination.
Janis