We are now providing, Interactive Metronome (IM), a new developmental rehabilitation program.  What is IM? IM is a brain-based multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment program that has been shown, in clinical research, to improve the neurological functions of motor planning and sequencing. This in turn strengthens motor skills including mobility and gross motor function along with the cognitive functions, planning, organizing, attention, focus and language.

The IM program  provides a strucutred  goal-oriented training process that challenges the child to synchronize various hand and foot movements to a computer generated reference tone  heard through headphones (this is not Therapeutic Listening). The child attempts to match the rhythmic beat with motor activities such as hand clapping or foot tapping while wearing an IM glove with a palm trigger. The difference between the child’s performance and the computer generated beat is measured in milliseconds (ms).

IM allows us to objectively measure motor planning and sequencing and assign a level of function in milliseconds (ms).   The ms average score provided for each IM task represents the child’s ability to motor plan and sequence. As the child improves in his/her ability to motor plan and sequence, it is reflected in improving ms averages.

More than a decade of research and case studies on IM have consistently demonstrated gains in motor planning, rhythmicity, timing and sequencing which all tie into  improvements in:

Attention and Concentration

Language and Processing

Behavior ( aggression and impulsivity)

Fine and Grosss Motor Skills

Balance and Gait

Strength, Coordination and Endurance

Academic Performance

This program is not only targeted to children with identifiable diagnoses, it is beneficial to the general population including improvement in athletic ability, musical performance and academics, ( reading, writing and arithmetic).   

 Please contact Susan Foley for protocols, schedules and rates.