Using New Medical Tools for AutismThere are many clinics across the United States using Neurofeedback for Autism. Mothers and fathers love neurofeedback because their children are making progress. Even small changes are noticeable and appreciated by the entire family.
Autism children have a hard time making eye contact and in so many cases all other therapy options have never been able to solve even that symptom. Parents are being won over to neurofeedback because it has helped their children overcome that simple issue.
Autism doesn't have a single cause so there is no magic bullet that will treat them. That is where neurofeedback succeeds. It assists the brain as a whole. Improving brainwave activity across multiple regions. We know that different parts of the brain are handling different tasks. With neurofeedback therapy the training happens in multiple regions at once which improves all activity that is happening.
We know that neurofeedback therapy in combination with other medical therapies works the best. The longer and more neurofeedback treatments the child with autism has the better it is for them.
As the child progresses through the treatment, they can improve significantly as they learn how to better control their brainwave activity. One or two sessions may not see a lot of progress but after 20 sessions there should be noticeable improvement and beyond 40 there should be significant results.
What is a significant improvement for an autism child can vary immensely. A child may only learn to make eye contact after 20 sessions which does not seem like much. This is due to overcoming the first major block takes a while to overcome and then after that the floodgates of improvement could be blown wide open. By 60 sessions their physical functioning and motor control could be vastly improved.
Neurofeedback for Autism should be one of the primary methods of treatment but studies have show that complemented with other methods of treatment it works best.
