NeuroNet Therapy is a proven method of getting the brain ready to learn and function at its full potential. The program was created by Nancy Rowe, a therapist for hearing-impaired children who found a way to help children learn how to learn. Different grade levels at St. Nicholas are on different levels of the NeuroNet program. The therapy sessions, which take place in the morning before any work is done, causes the children to use their listening skills, seeing skills, thinking skills and doing skills.

“They are using all four elements,” said teacher Cathie Ross.

Four days a week the children go through the sessions to get their brains going. Following a recording that gives the children a beat, they do simple exercises that focus on coordination. They step on stools, bang water bottles together and chant to keep them all together.

“It gets the brain going, firing the neurons,” Ms. Ross said.

Since the school as been using this therapy, excellent results have been seen from the children, who really seem to enjoy the sessions. “We can see results,” Ms. Ross said, going on to give the example of one child who had problems writing until he began doing the NeuroNet Therapy sessions four days a week.

The program was originally developed for speech and hearing therapists, but the school has no trouble tweaking it for school purposes. “We’ve had to adapt it,” Ms. Ross explained. Some of the exercises used by therapists would be inadvisable in a classroom with many children at once and have been changed to be more suitable and safe.

At the moment, St. Nicholas is one of the only schools in the area to implement the NeuroNet Therapy Program. But the benefits of it can be seen in first-graders who are now on a fourth-grade reading level.

 

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