FUNCTIONAL DISCONNECTION SYNDROME
HEMISPHERIC IMBALANCE

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What is the functional disconnection syndrome?

Functional disconnection syndrome is where the right and left hemispheres of the brain are developing at different rates. Due to this difference in maturation, the brain is unable to connect, communicate, and share information appropriately. Though these developmental disorders are all complex and offer their own host of symptoms, they all share a common root cause: a brain imbalance. This imbalance often results in a diagnosis of functional disconnection syndrome.

Symptoms of Functional Disconnection Syndrome

The symptoms of functional disconnection syndrome vary depending on which side of the brain the imbalance is on. Learning disabilities, social disabilities, behavioural disabilities, and attention problems are all different symptoms that may manifest from a disconnection in the brain.

​These symptoms can include:

• Difficulties paying attention
• Impulsiveness
• Negative behaviours
• Anxiety issues
• Inability to quickly process information
• Reading issues
• Social awkwardness
• Failure to pick up on non-verbal cues
• Unable to read people well

Treating a Hemispherical Imbalance

We will start with an assessment form  to determine which hemisphere is underdeveloped at your child. This may include testing primitive reflexes, cranial nerve functions, cerebellar function, and frontal eye fields. These symptoms affect multiple systems of the body, so this comprehensive assessment is essential. Once we have collected the necessary data, a home-therapy plan will be developed to stimulate and promote hemispheric integration and synchronization.
​We will tailor this home therapy plan to each child’s needs to ensure the brain can work as a whole. We use tools that you may not have heard of yet.

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​Improving Communication in the Brain

The brain responds best to environmental stimuli, such as movement, sound, touch, and taste. To treat functional disconnections, the first step is to identify where the functional weakness is occurring. By using primitive reflex assessments, we can get to the underlying cause of the disconnection. Then, if a child has a weakness in auditory processing, for example, we can utilize auditory stimulation to help improve this disconnection.
We provide a variety of intervention approaches depending on what the child needs. These approaches can include:

Hemispheric Integration

Hemispheric integration is a rehabilitative therapy that incorporates stimulation and training of certain parts of the brain. This approach works to strengthen the weak and under-functioning neurological pathways that are not communicating with each other. The process encourages neuroplasticity, resulting in improved academic and social behaviour.

​​Neurosensory

The neurosensory approach stimulates sensory pathways to improve motor and cognitive behaviours, focusing on environmental stimulation to improve the weaker areas of the brain. Primitive reflex training, movement stimulation, and other specific stimuli are utilized in this method.

​Functional Biochemistry

Functional biochemistry is the use of natural compounds that are proven to support neurological, immunological, and digestive processes. As a more holistic approach, functional biochemistry helps us find the underlying cause of the disconnection, not just treat the symptoms caused by it.

​Nutritional Education

Eating habits affect your entire body, and individuals with functional disconnection syndrome are no different. Through nutritional education, we will help you introduce the best diet for your child’s needs to promote optimal brain function. 

​Functional Neurology

Functional Neurology is a new concept for many people. In essence, functional neurology is the evaluation and intervention programme for the central and peripheral nervous system. Very basically, functional neurology can be thought of as exercise for the brain. Just like training a muscle makes it stronger, training your brain will make it stronger.

What does it mean to make the brain stronger?

​By this, we mean improve the function of the brain. This can be achieved by making positive neuroplastic changes. Neuroplasticity is the term that describes the brains ability to make new connections in order to achieve a new function. Think about a developing child learning to walk or talk or write. It takes practice, but once the task is learned, it is hard wired. Through trauma, degeneration, or a developmental obstacle, the brain may not be wired correctly or it may have a weak or broken wire. A functional neurological intervention is one that promotes rewiring and/or strengthening a connection that is already in place.

Functional neurology is brain training.
​Smell, taste, sound, balance, vision, movement, and touch are utilized in specific ways to promote neuroplastic changes. Making a positive neuroplastic change requires specificity. Intervention needs to be specific for the part of the brain requiring change and then the intervention intensity needs to be done within the brain’s capacity.

Getting Started is Simple

​Step 1. Book a Get Started Call and get the Assessment Forms in this call - you will find out what areas of your or your child's functioning need improvements to eliminate the brain imbalances and reach the potential.

Step 2.  Register yourself or your child for either in-person intensive TheraCamp, or for an at-home virtual program and start arranging new developmental goals for the nearest future.

Step 3. Take advantage from knowledge and specialised experience of your qualified childhood neurodevelopmental disorders specialist about how to faster create lasting changes in your own or your child's functioning.

Step 4. Carry out all the recommended steps and protocols you will learn about during the in-person or virtual intervention.

Step 5. Enjoy achieving your or your child's goals faster while improving your overall sense of peace.

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