Brain Jogging Intro into Autistic Population
December 5, 2005
Georgia - After many years of delivering a tried and true solution to children with learning disabilities, a local pediatrician asked us to consider using Brain Jogging with a non-verbal four year old boy "Subject A". To our surprise, within three weeks, the family expressed tremendous evidence of "Subject A's" increased verbal skills and new found personality. The parent of "Subject A" is a speech and language pathologist. She is employed through a federally funded program for at risk children. After observing the remarkable turnaround in her son she asked to share her experience with "Subject B", a three year old autistic girl. "Subject B's" parents were interested and in fact, most anxious to implement Brain Jogging methodology.
Six weeks later "Subject B", her mother and the speech and language pathologist came to Camp Academia for a video taping session. The consensus was unanimous. "Subject B" had made gains far beyond degrees previously considered possible in years, yet she had utilized the program only six weeks.
It must be noted that “Subject B” had no experience with graphic representation of letters or numbers at the time of our first encounter. Therefore, preprogram activities became necessary to prepare the child to use the Brain Jogging program, prior to the methodology implementation. Those activities lasted two weeks.
Since “Subject A & B”, seven children have been identified as being on the scale of moderate to severe on the autism spectrum. All have similar stories of remarkable gains socially and academically. These results warrant further study.
Therefore a pretrial clinical study involving four to five preschool aged students in a school of at risk population will begin January 2006.
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