Our desire is to recommend the best intervention at the time of the assessment. Each problem has different possible root causes in three main dimensions:

- physical (medical, heredity, neurodevelopment of the brain, environment, diet, etc);
- psychological (intellectual, motivational, emotional, educational, relationship between mom and dad, parental - skills, family dynamic, etc);
- spiritual

We are concentrating on the intellectual and emotional aspects of the problem dynamic. It is the parents responsibility to pursue the interventions that pertain to the physical and spiritual aspects of the problems with the help of other resources. The parents have to understand that we only can accomplish so much in the first visits and for better results parents should consider several short follow-up sessions to analyse the best interventions that change as the child progresses and benefit from my growing investment of interest in you child and your commitment.

Main Areas of Interventions
Physical -- Biochemical -- Intellectual -- Emotional -- Motivational -- Spiritual

I am presenting here a summary of the different areas of possible causes that we need to analyse in order to find the appropriate interventions when facing attention and learning inefficiencies.

Physical and Biochemical (Body)
Key: identify, remove, replace, re-inoculate, repair
Physical check-up
Nutrition and Water- See article: Nutrition, Learning and Attention Inefficiencies
Environmental toxicity - Detoxification
Sleep
Exercise - Oxygen to the brain -
Neurodevelopmental activities- See article on Neurodevelopment and the one on Reflexes
Pharmaceutical
Nutriceutical

Intellectual and Information Processing (Soul)
Key: identification of learning inefficiencies and strengths ( psychoeducational assessment)  
Support for School Success
Neurocognitive Training 
Memorization of large sections
Activities in areas of strengths/gifts
Neurofeedback Training : See article on Neurofeedback

Emotional (Soul)
Key: forgiveness and love
Quality and stability of the mom and dad’s emotional relationship
Tune-up family functioning
Quality of human relationships
State of the will power
Types of personalities
Review of activities (free time)
Behavioral Strategies

Spiritual (Spirit)
Key: who we worship and yield our spirit in light of eternity
Prayer
Meditation
Purpose of life
Character

Copyright 2005, Suzanne Day, Neuropsychophysiologist, Psychoeducational and Neurodevelopmental Consultant