For those of you living in Canada and seeking more interventions for sensory integration dysfunction, ADHD, or learning disabilities, check out the Wise Choice Educational Services. This practice appears to house many state-of-the-art interventions in one place, with a staff that sounds knowledgeable not only in how to administer these interventions, but what it’s like to parent and teach a child with these disabilities.

The way they state it is that they “look for the root cause of neurocognitive inefficiencies.” David and Suzanne Day, educators with training in Doman-Delacato neurodevelopmental approach are at the heart of this practice.

I’m fascinated by these people and the choice of interventions that are in their practice. I have explored (and used) many of the interventions that these folks utilize. But I have not found elsewhere one practice that is using them all.

The articles by Ms. Day are extremely fascinating. The Emotional Impact of Learning Disabilities has some fascinating thoughts that seem to dovetail with what I’ve been learning about LuLu. For several years I have focused on her attachment and trauma. This was an important piece of her disability. But what wasn’t adequately identified until the last couple of years were the rest of her disabilities. And now that I know little tidbits like those mentioned in this article – i.e. 70% of children with attentional problems have learning disabilities – much about LuLu’s persisting negative emotional state makes better sense. The need to give her positive feedback and a less stressful place to learn has become crystal clear. And the need for nearly every intervention the Days have in their practice. Maybe we should move to Canada???

The other fascinating thing about these folks is that they use both neurodevelopmental interventions and neurofeedback. Now’s a good time to mention one of my favorite yahoogroups to you – NEUROnetwork. This group, moderated by some awesomely smart adoptive moms, discusses both interventions, which are designed to impact the neurology of a developing brain – helping with sensory integration, attention, working memory, learning disabilities, and even many of those problem behaviors. In Ms. Day’s article Neurodevelopmental Approach and Sensory Integration, she talks about using QEEGs (generally a neurofeedback diagnostic tool) to measure progress in children using the neurodevelopmental approach.

Not to leave out another of my favorite yahoogroups – attachasd – this website has an article for you as well! Attachasd is another adoptive mom-moderated listserve focused on biomedical and nutritional interventions for children who are exhibiting a combination of attachment and autistic spectrum disordered. Ms. Day’s article on Nutrition and its Influences on Learning and Attention Span will be of interest to those exploring this route of interventions.