5 Safe Roads for your ADHD Child
5 Safe Roads for your ADHD Child is a comprehensive, scientifically based, fun-filled program to help children overcome the challenges of ADHD. The 5 Roads are: 1) attention training, 2) self-regulation training, 3) brain training, 4) physical exercise training and 5) focused arts training.
Children in the 5 roads program enjoy playing new, mentally stimulating and progressively challenging games, not realizing that the technology uses cutting edge research in brain science, psychology and neuro-education.
Your child receives a personalized training program using a combination of these 5 safe roads to improve attention, self-control, mood and mastery.
- Attention training is the first safe road. Paying attention is the number one skill for your child to learn because it has the strongest impact on future academic success. It uses computer-based exercise and video games tailored to your child’s unique brain makeup, needs and temperament. Attention training increases alertness, stamina and processing speed while reducing distractibility and impulsivity.
- Self-regulation training is safe road number two. It is your child’s “ability to regulate emotions and to persist with goals in the face of distractions.” (Posner, 2009). Self-regulation training increases self-control and positive mood. It teaches children how to relax and helps them improve behavior, emotional control and social skills.
- Brain training is safe road number three. Brain training strengthens working memory, listening, impulse control and mental processing speed. It uses computer-based exercises and video games tailored to your child’s unique brain makeup, needs and temperament. For example, your child may require intensive working memory, auditory processing and efficient brain speed training. Another child will need help with impulsivity, fine-motor skills and hyperactivity, while a third student needs to improve thinking, organizing, planning and prioritizing.
- Physical exercise training is safe road number four. Your child is encouraged to engage in structured physical exercises which improve mind, body and mood. Aerobic exercises like running, swimming and cycling are fine. But exercises which train both body and the brain are better — especially for children with attention deficits. Examples include martial arts, gymnastics, dancing, tennis and skateboarding. The key is that they require both complex movements and and great physical effort.
In today’s digital world children need to be physically active to feel good and to be healthy. Sometimes when a child finds a physical activity she loves and pursue with a passion, it is their lifeline to happiness and success. Most all children in the 5 Roads program learn some juggling skills which enhance focus, motor skills, mood and confidence.
- Focused arts training is safe road number five. The research of Dr. M.I. Posner and others has shown that when children discover an art form they love and pursue it with passion “…we can… see improvement in attention, as well as in intelligence and cognition in general.” Posner, in Mehta, 2009. Music, theater and dance are safe, fun-filled way to improve attention, mastery and mood. The road of the Arts.
They Sell Software and On-Line Games: We Make Them Work
There are many amazing online brain training and software programs available today. Many of them may be helpful to your child. But an expert is needed to customize a package of programs to meet your child’s specific needs and goals. It starts with an assessment that gives usable information and proceeds to a program composed of high tech, low tech and no tech solutions specifically designed for your child.
This is the best way to get generalization and transfer of training. This means that not only do your child’s scores on the online games increase, but that he achieves at school, improves social skills and develops creative and athletic abilities.
What You Can Expect From Sparks of Genius: Safe, Effective and Medication-Free Programs for ADHD
We work with children currently on medication, off medication or who have never been on medication.
Just as strength, speed, stamina, balance and flexibility form the core five areas of physical health, the 5 Safe Roads Method improves mental strength, speed, stamina, balance and flexibility. Children do not have to know that these exercises are healthy. Rather they can increase focus, strengthen self-control and spark genius while having fun.
All programs are health-oriented and all team members are committed to optimal physical and cognitive health.
Help for Focus and Academic Problems
Many children with ADHD have learning difficulties accumulated from earlier in the term or from previous grades. Children must be secure in the basic skills to progress to more advanced skills. The 5 Safe Roads Program uses a master educator approach to address these deficiencies. Give your child a strong academic foundation— not a crumbling one.
Sparking Genius to Help Attention Deficits
“Sparking genius” happens when a child’s unique profile of curiosity, interest and creativity is identified, nurtured and expressed. Your child has one or more untapped areas waiting to be uncovered. It is especially important for the child with ADHD to get in touch with his abilities instead of his liabilities. The child struggling in school can be transformed into the child with a solo in band whose science project gets into the state finals.
When an ADHD child sparks genius, that child is much more likely to be focused, happy and enthusiastic. When the 5 Safe Roads and Sparking Genius combine with best effort and personal responsibility, your child is catapulted to higher levels of performance. Assesments
What Can I Expect From Sparks of Genius?
- On-Line assessments with usable information instead of psychological jargon. Assesments
- Personalized programs to help your child focus and achieve in school with results that serve as a springboard to future success in school and in life
- The 5 Safe and Fun Roads for improving attention skills. A scientifically based method consisting of attention training, self-regulation training, brain training, physical exercise and focused arts training.5 Roads Training
- Access to caring and experienced professionals via Skype or in person at our South Florida headquarters.SparksOfGenius Team