Low Level Brain Timing Training
York Mind-Body Health offers a method of testing and training a set of
core brain processing functions. Children and adults with learning
or attention problems such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or
dyslexia may have deficits in these low level functions. Training in
these basic skills has been shown to improve higher level skills
such as reading and writing. The method is not strictly
neurofeedback but is a useful complement to it. Training units are
available for hire so that you can benefit from home training.
What Are Low Level Timing Functions?
These functions relate to the processing of perceptions,
especially aspects related to timing. For example, consider the
skills needed to understand speech. Obviously you need an
understanding of words and sentences but on a more basic level you
need perceptual skills such as correctly identifying the individual
sound components (e.g. letter sounds), and the ability to keep track
of the order in which you heard them.
What Does Brain Timing Training Help?
The system was developed specifically to help dyslexia and has proven benefits
for dyslexics. It can also help ADD / ADHD.
Low Level Training with Brain-Boy
York Mind-Body Health employs a training and testing system
known as "brain boy". Brain-boy has a set of eight different tests
highlighting different aspects of low level brain functioning, each
of which can be trained.
Training can be fun. Each test is designed in the form of a game.
You follow a sequence of trials. Each time you give a correct
answer, the next trial is more difficult. Each incorrect answer
makes the next easier. Can you beat your best score!
Examples of the test functions:
- Visual Order Discrimination
- Two LED lights flash in quick succession. You have to identify
which one (left or right) flashed first.
- Audiory Order Discrimination
- You hear two clicks, one in each ear of your headphones. You have
to identify which came first.
- Directional Discrimination
- You hear a click in
your headphones and the task is to identify the "direction" -
was it more to the left or to the right?
- Pitch Discrimination
- You hear two tones, quite close in pitch. You identify the lower
tone - was it the first or second?
- Perceptual-motor Coordination
- You press buttons in time with a rhythmic tone. How well can you synchronise?
For more information on the brain-boy and low level training visit visit the
site of the German manufacturer, Meditech.
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