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Is Your Child’s Brain Lacking Nutrients? Learn How Nutrient Deficiency Can Impact Learning & Behaviour

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : March 16, 2019No Comment

Nutritional deficiencies are often overlooked when addressing the causes and treatment of childhood disorders like dyslexia, ADHD and other brain disorders. The idea that certain key vitamins, minerals or fats could wreak such havoc on your child may seem preposterous. Yet extensive research over the last several decades has revealed irrefutable research that certain nutrients…

Reading Therapy – Correcting the Cause of Reading Struggles

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : March 15, 2019No Comment

A Neuro-Scientific Program That Uses The Principles of Brain Plasticity To Correct Reading Deficits at the Source – The Only Technology that Bonds the Auditory to Visual Pathways …

Integrated Listening Systems Therapy for ADHD, Autism Spectrum and Improved Learning

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : March 15, 2019No Comment

iLs is a brain stimulation intervention that is based on the fact that we can change our brain – we can essentially re-wire it through specific and repeated stimulation, a concept known as neuroplasticity. As in building strength and endurance with physical exercise, we are able to build neurological pathways and synaptic activity at any…

The Gift of Dyslexia

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : January 15, 2019March 15, 2019No Comment

Think that dyslexia is all bad? Think again. Individuals with dyslexia use their brain differently and therefore have incredible gifts and abilities. Some of the world’s most successful and intelligent people are dyslexic–and their success is due to dyslexia not in spite of it! Dr. Sally Shaywitz at Yale University concluded that dyslexia is completely…

Is Your Child’s Gut Health Affecting their Brain?

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : November 16, 2018March 16, 2019No Comment

Is Your Child’s Gut Health Messing with Their Brain? One of the unique characteristics of children who suffer from childhood disorders such as dyslexia, ADHD, learning disabilities and autism spectrum is that they often suffer from other more subtle signs of a poor functioning immune system. Immune health is reflective of brain health because both…

Improve Learning with Integrated Listening Systems

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : July 15, 2018March 15, 2019No Comment

Often, our educational interventions are putting a roof on a weak foundation. The acquisition of reading, writing, math and other academic skills is dependent upon a normally-developed nervous system. Communication between the brain’s two hemispheres and integration of sensory input from the eyes, ears and motor systems must be intact for adequate response to intervention…

How iLs Improves Reading Difficulties

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : June 15, 2018March 15, 2019No Comment

Let me tell you about a client, Nick. When he first started my program, his parents were certain he would need additional reading therapy on top of addressing behaviours related to autism spectrum. They said, “let’s do iLs first to address behaviour and processing and we’ll deal with reading afterwards.” Yet in those next few…

Understanding the Causes of Dyslexia

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : May 15, 2018March 15, 2019No Comment

If you’re confused about the cause of dyslexia, you’re not alone. It seems there are a dozen theories all claiming to find the ‘real’ reason why some people struggle so much with learning to read. When I first plunged into this line of work–I was confused and overwhelmed myself. There was more information than I…

Recognizing the Signs of Dyslexia

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : April 15, 2018March 15, 2019No Comment

What is Dyslexia? Understanding what dyslexia looks like for different individuals as well as at different ages and situations is essential to overcoming it. The sooner the signs of dyslexia are recognized the easier it is to overcome. However, even adults who have lived with it for a lifetime can still overcome it with the…

The Role of Zinc Deficiency in ADHD & Learning Disorders

By : info@lorrainedriscoll.com Posted On : March 16, 2018March 16, 2019No Comment

There is an expression in the nutrition world that goes, “no zinc, no think.’ Zinc is the second nutrient I always check for when working with children who have brain disorders because zinc is essential for proper functioning of the nervous system and for brain activity. It also has a key role in immunity and…