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NeuroDevelopment

Brain NeuroDevelopment

Cognitive Functional System

Attention & Learning
Language & Speech
Reading & Comprehension
Hearing & Listening
Memory & Recall
Personality & Self-Awareness

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The ability to attend and stay on task is critical to our ability to function within society. Without it our world appears disorganized and chaotic.

For children, the inability to pay attention and stay on task while learning new skills and information can be frustrating. It can also be frustrating for parents and teachers.

If the child senses this frustration within their parents and teachers coupled with their own frustrations they may lose motivation, become aggressive, or feel hopeless.

At Crossroads Institute we have found that the inability to pay attention and learn efficiently is a function of how well the brain and its supporting nervous system is performing.

Our approach consists of first assessing the child's developmental age (which often differs from physical age). Next we assess the child's attending skills.

When we measure attention we consider five primary factors:

• Ability to focus
• Ability to sustain focus
• Ability to alternate or coordinate attention
• Ability to discriminate
• Ability to divide attention to include multiple thoughts.

With these measures intact learning then becomes a natural skill.

Our assessment examines the child's attention and learning activity as it occurs and how the child discriminates and processes auditory vs. visual information.

From the assessment and when appropriate we implement training sessions within Crossroads Institute BrainyArcade.

Children are placed on programs designed to break up neuro-inhibitors in feedback pathways which then promote volitional, autonomic and expressive responses.

The lab activities consists of computer assisted programs that exercise the neuro-motor pathways which promote the development of attention and learning systems. In addition, neurocognitive and neurodevelopment activities are implemented to assist in the maturation of the brain.

In addition, we offer a home training program that supports the lab sessions by strengthening the attention and learning neuro-pathways.

As part of the Crossroads Institute BrainyArcade we have developed programs that will aid the child, parents, teachers and therapists. These include learning strategies, accelerated learning tools, and behavioral management techniques that create a pleasurable environment for both child and parent.