We Help Kids Who Struggle

How to Help a Child:

Your child seems to be struggling. It might seem extra hard for them to tune out noises, they seemingly overreact to inconveniences like sticky fingers, or they’re struggling to remember sight words you would hope they had mastered.

When a child displays anxious behavior regularly, it can feel challenging for parents who want to help. The first step to managing anxious behavior in your child or teen is understanding what's happening in their brain. Once you understand the science behind what's happening, you can move forward in helping them to better cope with their feelings and manage their responses to stress.

We use brain MRIs with volumetric measurements and additional tests (approximately 1 hour assessment) to map areas of weakness in the neurocognitive processes in the neurodivergent person. After assessment, we provide an easy to interpret intervention plan. These plans include succinct recommendations (includes speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, auditory music therapy, processing and cognitive training, physician specialist evaluation) with the goal of helping the neurodivergent student function at school and solve their school problem.

How Can The Brain Cell Help Kids?

The Brain Cell is a personalized, holistic program that engages the brain and body to address aspects of daily functioning, including emotional, social and behavioral issues. The program uses an integrated approach which combines cognitive brain training with sensorimotor exercises.

The Brain Cell program exercises and activities are uniquely designed to help strengthen and build new connections by using a combination of physical, sensory, and cognitive activities. This program does not prescribe medication and does not require a diagnosis.

The Brain Cell’s unique combination of activities is designed to drive meaningful change in the symptoms they are experiencing. As we explore how to help a child who may be struggling, we use what we learn in the assessment to set up a program that is tailored to your child. By doing this for each child, individually, we create a customized program that addresses any deficits in functions or skills your child may have.

The Brain Cell does not require that a child has a medical diagnosis, nor do we clinically diagnose medical conditions. Our focus is on understanding the struggles these children experience and helping them develop and strengthen the connections needed to help those struggles.

What can be done?

Extensive scientific research demonstrates that the brain is malleable, allowing for brain connectivity change and development and creating an opportunity for improvement at any age. The Brain Cell has applied this research to develop a program that focuses on building brain connectivity and improving the foundation of development, rather than masking or coping with symptoms.

The good news is we know that the brain can change in a way that may lead to change and improvement of symptoms. The Brain Cell program exercises and activities are uniquely designed to help strengthen and build new connections by using a combination of physical, sensory, and cognitive activities. These new, efficient, and effective connections in the brain lead to improvements in our ability to complete cognitive tasks and in our executive functioning.

Anxiety and repeated worrisome thoughts, are struggles that we see every day with the families we help at The Brain Cell. A person’s ability to regulate anxiety and worry less relies heavily on brain maturity and connectivity. The Brain Cell is uniquely designed to focus on building brain connectivity and improving the foundation of development, rather than implementing coping strategies for life to stay calm and worry less. The program uses a combination of sensory engagement exercises, physical development exercises, cognitive activities and healthy nutrition to strengthen the brain pathways needed to reduce worrisome thoughts and improve the ability to handle stress.

We can help.

If your child does not have a medical diagnosis and is struggling academically, behaviorally, or socially and you’re just not sure why, we can help determine if The Brain Cell is the right fit.

We help kids get to the root of their struggles. The challenges that are most commonly reported in the kids and teens we work with include:

• Distractibility and Attention
• Task Avoidance
• Attention to Detail
• Follow Through with School Work
• Time Management
• Organization
• Impulsivity
• Mood and Behavior
• Sensory Processing
• Defiance
• ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Learning disorder
• IEP / 504