Interactive
Metronome
What is Interactive Metronome?
The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a brain-based rehabilitation assessment and training program developed to directly improve the processing abilities that affect attention, motor planning, and sequencing as well as language and reading skills.
This, in turn, strengthens motor skills, including mobility and gross motor function, and many fundamental cognitive capacities such as planning, organizing, and language.
How does Interactive Metronome Work?
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The IM program provides a structured, goal-oriented training process that challenges the patient to precisely match a computer generated beat. Participants are instructed to synchronize various hand and foot exercises to a reference tone heard through headphones. The IM program provides a structured, goal-oriented training process that challenges the patient to precisely match a computer generated beat. Participants are instructed to synchronize various hand and foot exercises to a reference tone heard through headphones.
Watch this short video to learn more about the Interactive Metronome
What are the benefits?
Motor planning and sequencing problems have been linked to a variety of developmental, behavioral, and learning challenges. More than a decade of clinical research on IM demonstrates gains in motor planning and sequencing lead to improvements in:
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✓ Attention/concentration
✓ Academic performance
✓ Cognitive speed
✓ Language processing
✓ Phonological awareness
✓ Motor control
✓ Motor planning
✓ Behavior (aggression, self control, and impulsivity)