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FAQ:
About Hardy Brain Training & Tutoring
- Who does Hardy Brain help?
- When was Hardy Brain Founded?
- What is the Hardy Brain Foundation?
- How can I make a donation to the Hardy Brain Foundation?
- I do not live in California. Can Hardy Brain still help me?
- Do any of your programs involve medication?
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1. Who does Hardy Brain help?
At Hardy Brain, we help a wide variety of people, including:
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° Pre-natally exposed children & adults
° People with Alzheimer’s
° Special Education Students
° People with Learning Disabilities
° People with Behavior Problems
° Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors
° Pilots ° Surgeons |
° Athletes
° Students
° Professionals
° Artists
° Musicians
° People with ADD/ADHD
° People with Asperger’s or Autism
° Stroke Survivors |
For a full list of the programs we offer, please click here.
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2. When was Hardy Brain Founded?
Hardy Brain was founded in 2003 by Sherrie Hardy and her two daughters. For more information about Hardy Brain, please click here.
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3. What is the Hardy Brain Foundation?
The Hardy Brain Foundation is dedicated to helping children and adults who may not be able to afford treatment otherwise. When funds are available, the Foundation provides partial scholarships to some children and adults.
For more information on the Foundation, please click here.
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4. How can I make a donation to the Hardy Brain Foundation?
For full information on how you can make a tax-deductible donation to the Hardy Brain Foundation, please click here.
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5. I do not live in California. Can Hardy Brain still help me?
Yes! Many of Hardy Brain’s unique programs can be carried out in the comfort of your own home, school, or training facility. For more information on how this works, please give us a call at (866) 96-BRAIN, or email us at info@hardybraintraining.com.
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6. Do any of your programs involve medication?
No.
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FAQ:
About Interactive Metronome
- What is Interactive Metronome?
- Who can Interactive Metronome help?
- What are the Benefits of Interactive Metronome?
- Who can IM Help?
- Where can I find out more?
1. What is Interactive Metronome?
Interactive Metronome (IM) is a revolutionary, research-based program that uses auditory guides and movement to improve a person’s rhythm, timing, and focus.
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2. How does Interactive Metronome work?
To train, a person wears a headset through which they hear a repetitive bell that chimes 54 times per minute. Depending on the stage of training, the person must either clap their hands or tap their feet in time with the bell. Velcro sensors on their hands and feet detect when they clap or tap, and the computer records how far off the beat they are in hundredths of milliseconds (1 millisecond is 0.001 seconds).
The goal is to decrease the number of milliseconds that a person claps/taps off the beat. As they train, the person will gradually achieve lower and lower millisecond scores. This indicates that their timing, focus, and concentration are improving.
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3. What are the Benefits of Interactive Metronome?
As timing, focus, and concentration improve, so do many other skills. The brain quickly learns how to process information more quickly, allowing the client to take in information, store it swiftly, and move on. For students, this ability is critical to keeping up in class and on homework.
As training progresses, clients find:
¨ Attention improves. Listening during class is not so hard now. Studying is not so painful.
¨ Coordination improves. Fine-tuning the brain helps hand-eye and brain-body coordination, making movement easier
¨ Frustration lessens. Now that they can concentrate more clearly, people feel less frustrated.
¨ Starting and finishing work is easier.
¨ “Mental processing” speeds up. Clients are able to think faster and more clearly.
¨ “Language processing” improves. Clients are better able to communicate with others.
¨ Control of aggression and impulsivity improves. Clients become less aggressive, less impulsive, and less distractible.
¨ Athletic and classroom performance improves. All of the above improvements make sports and school easier and more fun.
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4. Who can IM Help?
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Students
Athletes
Pilots
Surgeons
Senior citizens
Musicians
Artists
Actors |
People with:
° ADD and ADHD
° Autism
° Asperger’s Syndrome
° Speech and language delays
° Movement and sensory disorders
° Traumatic Brain Injury
° Stroke
° Early-stage Alzheimer’s |
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5. Where can I find out more?
For information on how IM has helped students, please visit http://www.interactivemetronome.com/default.asp?cate_id=24&subcate_id=365&pg_id=469.
For information on how IM has helped people with ADD/ADHD, please visit http://www.interactivemetronome.com/default.asp?cate_id=4&pg_id=28.
For general information about Interactive Metronome, please visit http://www.interactivemetronome.com/.
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FAQ:
About Neurofeedback
- What is Neurofeedback?
- How does Neurofeedback Work?
- What are the Benefits of Neurofeedback?
- Who can Neurofeedback Help?
- Where can I find more information?
1. What is Neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback challenges the brain in much the same way that lifting weights challenges muscles. By exercising the brain with Neurofeedback’s revolutionary programs, clients improve their brain’s ability to function.
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2. How does Neurofeedback work?
While engaged in different activities, a person’s brain is running at different rates, and producing brain waves of different frequencies. For example, while sleeping, a person’s brain produces slow, low-frequency brain waves. While highly alert and concentrating, a person’s brain produces fast, high-frequency brain waves, called Beta Waves. When producing Beta Waves, the brain is alert, focused, and ready to work—the exact state you wish the brain to be in for peak school, athletic, or job performance.
At Hardy Brain, we use Neurofeedback to train our clients’ brains to produce Beta Waves. To do this, we place small sensors on the client’s scalp to detect their brain waves. A computer uses these brain waves to run a video game for the client. The game is similar to a video arcade game, except that, instead of the hands controlling the game, the brain does. When the computer detects the kinds of brain waves we want to see, the person begins to win at the game. When the brain falls back into a non-productive pattern, the person starts to lose at the game. Through this non-invasive, non-medication-based technique, our clients quickly train their brains to operate a peak performance levels.
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3. What are the Benefits of Neurofeedback?
As the brain integrates, people find they can organize better, think more rationally, move toward their goals, stay relaxed, and react appropriately to emotional situations.
Research has found that Neurofeedback training can:
¨ Be more effective than Ritalin for ADD/ADHD sufferers.
¨ Decrease hyperactivity and impulsivity.
¨ Make moods more stable.
¨ Help people sleep more soundly.
¨ Improve attention span and concentration.
¨ Improve academic performance.
¨ Improve memory.
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4. Who can Neurofeedback Help?
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Children
Teens
Adults
Senior Citizens
Athletes |
People with:
° ADD and ADHD
° Learning Disabilities
° Behavior Problems
° Traumatic Brain Injuries
° Stroke |
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5. Where can I find out more?
For general information about Neurofeedback, please visit http://www.eegspectrum.com.
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FAQ:
About Brain Gym
- What is Brain Gym?
- How does Brain Gym work?
- What are the Benefits of Brain Gym?
- Who can Brain Gym Help?
- Where can I find more information about Brain Gym?
1. What is Brain Gym?
Brain Gym is based on the theory of “educational kinesiology”—the idea that physical movements can influence learning. Brain Gym uses simple movement exercises to integrate the left and right hemispheres of the brain, readying it for learning and performance.
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2. How does Brain Gym work?
Brain Gym aims to integrate the entire brain. To train with Brain Gym, a person uses acupressure points and movement to help the brain integrate the attention, emotional, and information areas. These exercises enhance the development of neural pathways in the brain.
For example, in one exercise, the client touches their left elbow to their right knee and their right elbow to their left knee repetitively, moving across the body’s “midline.” This simple movement helps the left and right hemispheres of the brain to communicate. Since the left hemisphere stores facts and the right hemisphere stores the ability to use those facts, the two hemispheres must work together to learn successively.
Other Brain Gym programs help integrate other areas of the brain, all of which are critical for learning.
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3. What are the Benefits of Brain Gym?
As the brain integrates, people find they can organize better, think more rationally, move toward their goals, stay relaxed, and react appropriately to emotional situations.
Children and adults find:
¨ Learning is easier.
¨ Sports and school performance is better.
¨ Concentrating is easier.
¨ They are more organized.
¨ Communication skills improve.
¨ Creativity and productivity are enhanced.
¨ Confidence and self-esteem improve.
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4. Who can Brain Gym Help?
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Children
Teens
Adults
Senior Citizens
Athletes |
People with:
° ADD and ADHD
° Learning Disabilities
° Behavior Problems
° Visual tracking problems |
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5. Where can I find out more about Brain Gym?
For general information about Brain Gym, please visit http://www.braingym.org.
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FAQ:
About Bal-A-Vis-X
- What is Bal-A-Vis-X?
- How does Bal-A-Vis-X work?
- What are the Benefits of Bal-A-Vis-X?
- Who can Bal-A-Vis-X help?
- Where can I find out more about Bal-A-Vis-X?
1. What is Bal-A-Vis-X?
Bal-A-Vis-X is short for Balance, Auditory, and Visual eXercises. These innovative, fun techniques exercise client’s full-body coordination and focus, improving their timing, concentration, and coordination.
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2. How does Bal-A-Vis-X work?
To train with Bal-A-Vis-X, a person uses beanbags, racquetballs, and balance boards to perform one of over 200 different exercises. Some of these exercises are simple— repeatedly tossing and catching a beanbag with one hand. Some are more complex—both hands bounce-juggling four racquetball to a specific rhythm.
As they train, people gradually increase the complexity of these tasks, building their coordination, timing, and concentration.
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3. What are the Benefits of Bal-A-Vis-X?
As coordination, timing, and concentration improve, so do many other skills. The brain quickly learns how to process information better, allowing the client to take in information, store it swiftly, and move on. For students, this ability is critical to keeping up in class and on homework.
As training progresses, clients find:
¨ Attention improves. Listening during class is not so hard now. Studying is not so difficult.
¨ Coordination improves. Fine-tuning the brain helps hand-eye and brain-body coordination, making movement easier and sports more fun.
¨ Frustration lessens. When they can concentrate more clearly, people feel less frustrated.
¨ Starting and finishing work is easier.
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4. Who can Bal-A-Vis-X Help?
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Children
Teens
Adults
Senior Citizens
Athletes Musicians |
People with:
° ADD and ADHD
° Learning Disabilities
° Behavior Problems
° Visual tracking problems
° Auditory processing problems |
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5. Where can I find out more about Bal-A-Vis-X?
For general information about Bal-A-Vis-X, please visit http://www.bal-a-vis-x.com.
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