Our Focus for Success program uses neurofeedback (EEG biofeedback).  We have been using it for years!

In the June 2010 issue of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recognized neurofeedback (EEG Biofeedback) as a clinically effective treatment for attention and hyperactivity disorders -- such as ADHD.

The AAP’s analysis determined that using these interventions significantly improves attention and reduces hyperactivity.  Click here for the AAP Chart.

Treatments are rated as Best Support, Good Support, Moderate Support, Minimal, and No Support.  So a rating of "good" is like getting a "B".  (We really think it deserves an "A+" but, since no national organization has recognized it before, we are pleased with the "B" for now.)

CedarBrook has been offering neurofeedback since 2008 and we researched it for over 5 years before that. We know it's effective--and we are overjoyed that others are recognizing it as well.

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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 psychopathology
• Fetal alcohol syndrome

• Fragile x syndrome
• Lead blood level
• Thyroid deficiency
• 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, enuresis/encopresis

• Substance abuse (alcohol, OTC medication, illicit substances)

• Pervasive Developmental Disorder (Autism / Asperger's)
• Tourette's syndrome
• Multiple tic disorder