Hi Karen et al,
I saw your posts back a bit and thought I might let you know how it is going so far with my son–INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING. I knew it would be difficult for him, but, after getting Beth’s feedback, I thought he would progress through the program at a faster rate. That being said, he has finally, today, at session 12, gotten it for 2 straight minutes. It may not sound like much, but his time was down to 21 milliseconds and he felt great afterwards.We will keep it up until his time is consistent and hopefully below 20 ms. He actually started the program pretty low—around 60 or 70 ms, but is having a hard time breaking 30.
If your son’s motor and processing problems are anything like my son’s (keeping movements consistent and knowing what his body is doing) than I suggest you find a very patient therapist and expect to be there longer than 3 weeks. The more I watch him, the more I like the program because he is forced to self correct in an incredibly short amount of time-something he finds incredibly difficult. My husband made a good comment —“if it was easy, it probably wouldn’t help.” I think one of sock’s sons just flew threw the program and the other had to go for about 27 sessions. It would be very interesting to me to learn which son gained more from the program. Socks?
I do not expect to see anything significant until school starts. But, what I have seen is quicker with math facts (nothing earth shattering), his expressive language tutor says he is speeding up in generating and expressing his ideas (but he has also gotten to know her over the past few weeks and likes her very much–so it may just be that he is not as afraid of making mistakes), he can throw and catch his been bags from further distances, and he caught the car keys I threw—3 times.
IM is not a magic cure–and although I said that going in, I think I sort of hoped it would be. I think he will get out of it something proportional to what he puts in. But I am feeling very bad today about making him spend his summer this way. :(
In the end, I hope we will both find it was worth it.
By the way, I am doing the program—have 3 sessions left and I am down to 12 ms:))) I can only say that I am far more aware of what my body is doing in tennis and can make corrections quickly. I am also driving within the speed limit!!!!!
Well—that’s all for now.
Margo