Together we can create lasting changes in your child's functioning.  
​Go for the optimal brain health and brain performance 

​A step-by-step home program with 1-1 regular bi-weekly guided group video meetings and parent support to help you and your child succeed through the 4 stages of the brain development program with specific hemisphericity-based Interactive Metronome treatment protocols, as in the Harvard white paper of Brain Balance ™​  Melillo Method ™​

​Stage 1 REGULATION - calm down the nervous system 
Stage 2 INTEGRATION  - integrate the reflexes, improve balance, coordination through specific movements and co-stimulation
​Stage 3 BRAIN TALK  - get two brain hemispheres to work together, develop executive functioning
Stage 4 NEUROTIMING - improve your brain processing speed to a millisecond level with interactive metronome and specific hemispheric-based movements - a reported statistically significant progress in just a few weeks of therapy with significant gains in cognition, coordination, speech, academic, sensory areas.

What is the secret ingredient in IM?
Timing!
Picture a clock and imagine opening it up and looking at all the gears rotating in unison. Like a clock, your brain is an amazing machine that controls every function using precise timing, and is used in virtually everything we do:

• Being able to focus on a teacher presenting a new concept.

• Hitting a baseball, learning piano, or simply grabbing a glass of water.

• Processing concepts in your mind and then through speech conveying these concepts to others.

• Organizing and storing information as well as retrieving that information when needed.

• It even controls when we want to sleep and wake up.

IM is a research-backed treatment program that helps improve timing through exercise and practice. Better timing leads to improvements in things like focus, coordination, planning, as well as processing speed. Whether you are born with a developmental deficit, suffering from a neurological injury, or battling a degenerative condition, IM is one of the key ingredients for enhancing your amazing time machine and improving your life.

Research Demonstrating Effectiveness of Melillo Method Treatment Technique (Our Neuro - Sensory - Motor program with the IM follows the same protocols as the research below)

HARVARD STUDY on ADHD/ hyperactivity

A recent Harvard Study showed a brain integration program is AS EFFECTIVE as stimulant medication in alleviating ADHD symptoms in children.
Harvard University's McLean Hospital completed a study on Dr Melillo's Brain Program and it's effect on kids with ADHD. The results showed that kids who completed the program saw comparable results to those on low dose Ritalin.
 
Key findings of the study:

• Children who completed the 16 week program saw significant reduction in hyperactivity, greater cognitive attention and reductions in oppositional behaviour.
• Connections across the brain were significantly improved in areas that are responsible for emotional and response control, language processing, memory retrieval, concentration, and distractibility.
• Not only did brain connections significantly improve immediately after the program, but those improvements were still present 7 months later.

CAMBRIDGE BRAIN SCIENCES STUDY ON BRAIN INTEGRATION PROGRAM
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"In this retrospective review of cognitive test results from the Cambridge Brain Sciences database, we found that participants of the Brain Integration program showed significant overall performance on specific tests of memory, reasoning, verbal ability, and concentration. The present findings point to the potential of non-pharmacologic training programs, such as the Brain Integration program, in significantly improving aspects of cognitive performance in children and adolescents with developmental and attentional issues, especially programs that comprehensively target and integrate multiple developmental areas."

​IM training is used in our NSM program in a specific hemispheric-based way to accelerate the brain processing speed and synchronise neuro-timing during your child's  brain integration at-home program.

We follow exactly the same treatment protocols of the Brain Integration Melillo Method  ™ as in the Harvard research study and the Cambridge study.

Your IM home unit will be remotely connected to our IM provider portal. Your child will be performing specific hemisphere-based IM exercises from the comfort of your own home.  Your child's IM training will be programmed, assessed  and re-programmed by us as your child advances. 
Interactive Metronome IM is an evidence-based training & assessment tool. IM is proven to improve  cognition, attention, speech/language, focus, memory, 
executive functioning, comprehension, as well as motor & sensory skills. 
IM for improving pediatric conditions - ADHD, Autism, Sensory processing disorder, Learning disabilities,  Developmental delays, Speech-language issues, Cerebral Palsy, Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
IM for improving adult conditions  - Stroke, Brain Injuries, Spinal cord injuries, Concussions, Amputations, Neurological diseases, Parkinson’s, MS, and more.
IM for improving sports and academic performance for high achievers -  Athletic Enhancement, Gait Symmetry, Injury Recovery, Decision Making, Balance, 
Processing Speed, Academic Performance, Overall Wellness.

Improve integration of primitive reflexes that inhibit your child's progress; improve balance, coordination, vestibular, proprioception, auditory, visual, tactile systems for better academic performance and speech!
The Program builds progressively as you go along, providing the building blocks needed to help your child improve.

How Does it Work?
When kids struggle with focus, behaviour or sensory processing, it can be linked to weak connections across different regions in the brain. But the good news is, we know that the brain can change. 
The NSM Program is designed to strengthen and build new connections to help your child get to the root of their struggles - in the brain, where they process and react to the world around them. 
The Program is designed to strengthen and build brain connectivity with a unique combination of physical, sensory, and cognitive activities. These new, efficient and effective connections in the brain help improve our ability to complete cognitive tasks and in our executive functioning skills:

1. behaviours
2. organisation
3. emotions
4. self-motivation
5. problem-solving

and cognitive skills:

1. memory
2. focus
3. learning
4. comprehension
5. reasoning​

The program builds progressively  as you go along, providing the building blocks needed to create improvements and lasting change. From the virtual assessment results, we will create a home program focused on building the brain connections needed to create improvements for your child.
1 - targeted right or left brain integration exercises with the use of the home therapy equipment
2 - integration of primitive reflexes exercises
3 - sensorimotor system stimulation and targeted exercises (incl. resonance, vibration, sound, rhythm, vision, light, movement, ipad-based digital therapy tools)
4 - nutritional education
5 - baseline and post-baseline virtual assessments
6 - family wellbeing support
7 - weekly one-to-one virtual appointments

The Neuro-Sensory-Motor program includes:

• The online ''Re-wire your brain'' course with 1-1 coaching , including assessment of a dominance profile, primitive reflexes, sensory-motor systems, balance and coordination, cognition, a specific hemisphere-based home therapy program, weekly 1-1 video calls to guide you step-by-step throughout your child's program, monthly video re-assessments and the program re-adjustments as your child progresses, guidance and support in the areas of nutritional, environmental, behavioural modifications and emotional regulation

and

• The IM home program which includes the hemispheric-based programming compatible with your child's brain balancing program
• IM home unit which needs to be ordered separately

​The Neuro-Sensory-Motor NSM program is designed to create greater results, especially with improved neuro-timing and optimising the brain oscillation patterns.
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We follow the same treatment protocols as in research studies below. The Harvard & Cambridge Brain Sciences research demonstrate positive improvements in focus, attention, learning & emotional regulation. Using our comprehensive approach you can work with your Melillo Method ™ therapist until your goals are achieved.