 Cedarbrook's Focus for Success program will help children, adolescents, and adults be more successful at whatever they do. Many are interested in our program because it helps with ADHD (attention difficulties or hyperactive behavior) in school. The program will also improve athletes’ and musicians’ focus and performance. Focus, attention, and concentration are fundamental to any learning situation. So whether you are learning to hit a golf ball consistently or learning math in school--Focus for Success can help. The educational component of our program includes a system inspired by NASA technology to train astronauts and US Air Force pilots to concentrate under various conditions. A high-tech helmet reads brain signals indicative of focus or concentration. These brain signals control computer games that not only teach students to improve focus, but also to ignore distractions, develop memory skills, finish tasks, and become organized.The psychological component or our program identifies your focus strengths and weaknesses, determines goals, and/or determines the root causes of attention difficulties for the student. Interventions are determined accordingly. |
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When students have difficulties in school, lack of attention is often noticed. We often assume that he/she has ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). But ADHD is not the only cause of attentional issues. ADHD "imitators" include the following:  - Hearing deficit
- Vision deficit
- Age-appropriate over-activity
- Coordination
- Poor nutrition / malnutrition
- Vitamin deficiency
- Caffeine
- Self-esteem problems
- Speech and receptive language
- Developmental language impairment ~ speech or language delays
- Insufficient sleep (sleep disorder or environmental causes)
- Too much stuff in the bedroom (TV, video games, cell phones, etc.)
- Functional disorders
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Conduct disorder
- Mood disorder
- Depression
- Dysthymia
- Anxiety disorder
- Realistic fears
- Personality disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- PTSD
- Mania or bipolar disorder
- Adjustment disorder with disturbance of behavior
- Situation, environmental, or family problems
- Improper learning environment (unsafe, disruptive)
- Inappropriate school placement (e.g. gifted child, learning disabled, developmentally delayed child in regular classroom)
- Personality conflicts with teachers or peers
- Family psychosocial adversity
- Social disruption (poverty, divorce, moves, deaths, illness in family)
- Unstable / chaotic home setting
- Conflict
- Adult domestic violence
- Abuse, neglect, or both
- Poor parenting (e.g. inappropriate, inconsistent, punitive)
- Level of parental stress
- Parental absence
- Parental psychopatholog
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fragile x syndrome
- Lead blood level
- Thyroid deficienct
- Phenylketonuria
- Petite mal epilepsy
- Seizures
- Sequelae of head trauma
- Thyroid abnormality
- Learning disability
- Mental retardation
- Borderline intellectual functioning
- Frontal lobe abscess
- Neoplasm
- Lead toxicity
- Medication-induced e.g. antihistamines, beta-agonists, Phenobarbital
- Acute or chronic medical illness esp. asthma, allergic rhinitis, eczema, enurisis/encopresis
- Substance abuse (alcohol, OTC medication, illicit substances)
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder (Autism / Asperger's)
- Tourette's syndrome
- Multiple tic disorder
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