Learning Disability: Treatment Options

You are here:

Home
Learning Disability: What is Learning Disability?
Learning Disability: Learning Disability Treatment Options

Learning Disability: Learning Disability Treatment Options

October 19, 2011 at 21:31

Learning Disability: Treatment Options

Neurofeedback is a safe and effective treatment to greatly reduce or eliminate symptoms associated with Learning Disability and many other disorders. Clients typically respond to neurofeedback rapidly, with significant results noted within a few months of starting treatment.

Click here for more information on How Neurofeedback Works!

Traditional Treatment Options:

Medication:

There are a myriad of medications available as treatment options for Learning Disability, many of which have numerous side effects. Your physician would be the resource for more information about this option. Medication treats the symptoms, but does not address the true cause of the disorder. Effects are typically short-term; thus, this type of treatment is often on-going, with mixed results. Many of our clients are looking for a treatment plan without medication. We will work with your doctor in reducing or eliminating medications.

Nutrition:

Many health experts agree that improved nutrition often plays at least a limited role in relieving some symptoms in many disorders, including learning disability, and should be included in treatment options for most people. Dallas Brain Changers can assist you in finding healthier nutritional choices and/or can guide you to an appropriate nutritional professional.

Counseling/Psychotherapy:

When performed alone or practiced in conjunction with medication intervention, counseling and psychotherapy are popular and well-known treatment options for a variety of disorders, including learning disability. However, this form of intervention may become a long-term and expensive endeavor, often spanning many years, with widely varying results.

Dallas Brain Changers Treatment Option:

When an integrated approach is utilized, involving both counseling and neurofeedback, results are achieved exponentially, often within a few months, and are proven to be more effective and long-lasting.

Learning Disability: Click here for Case Study

Neurofeedback Treatment:

*Neurofeedback is an effective, non-drug, non-invasive treatment option that has been proven to permanently reduce or eliminate symptoms associated with many disorders, including Learning Disability. It is a technique of operant conditioning which directly changes brain function. Neurofeedback dramatically affects arousal regulation. In so doing, this ‘brain training’ can normalize the propensity to high or low arousal as seen in the qEEG or Brain Map of those with Learning Disability. Furthermore, neurofeedback directly acts on specific brain activity known to be altered in learning disability. Neurofeedback is an option for those seeking treatment without medication.

Neurofeedback for Elementary Students with Identified Learning Problems

Peter C. Orlando PhD & Richard O. RiveraBS, pages 5-19

The goal of this particular research study was to ascertain whether basic reading, reading comprehension, the reading composite, and IQ scores could be improved using neurofeedback. Pre-test and post-test reading and cognitive assessments were administered to sixth, seventh and eighth graders identified as having learning problems. Neurofeedback training lasted approximately 30 to 45 minutes within each one-hour time block. The sessions were conducted weekly for the seven-month period.

Results: Neurofeedback was more effective in improving scores on reading tests than no neurofeedback training. There were significant interactions between neurofeedback and time on basic reading. Also, neurofeedback training was more effective in improving both the Verbal and Full Scale IQ scores than no neurofeedback training. There was a significant interaction between neurofeedback and time on Verbal IQ and on Full Scale IQ. However, there was not a significant interaction between neurofeedback and time on Performance IQ.

*Interested clients are advised to make an informed choice regarding Neurofeedback therapists, since there are several treatment options available. It is advised to look for a provider who is board certified by BCIA and a member of AAPB.

Call us today to begin the path toward increased health and healing! We are waiting for your call!