The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) is designed to specifically target the areas of the brain affected by injury. By identifying the impacted regions, we provide a personalized model of care that helps rewire and reconnect neural pathways. The brain has the ability to heal and regenerate lost functions. Individuals with brain injuries may experience challenges in areas such as:

• global functioning

• seizure disorders

• sensory processing

• mobility

• communication

• cognitive abilities

• self-regulation

• independence in daily activities

• IWBMC supports recovery and improved quality of life through a holistic approach.

How the IWBMC helps:

• Support for Brain Injury: IWBMC provides individualized program design targeting each client’s neurological framework.

• qEEG Brain Map Analysis: Used for collaboration on therapeutic plans and tracking progress. The data helps address patterns of under or over-communication often seen in brain injuries, working to build new neural pathways and reduce competitive overuse of other brain areas.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cord strengthening, and cross-lateral stimulation activities improve coordination, enhance movement efficiency, and increase stamina, while promoting new neural growth and communication within the brain.

• Developmental Milestones: Target opportunities for clients to complete specific developmental milestones, increasing independent mobility.

• Multisensory Academic Skills: Teach academic skills using a multisensory approach while addressing underlying visual and auditory processing challenges.

• Neurological Organization: Focus on auditory and visual sequential processing, working memory, processing speed, and retrieval abilities to enhance brain function.

• Hemispheric Specialization: Assess and address the organization of the neurological system, including dominant hemisphere and hemispheric specialization.

• Self-Regulation and Task Completion: Build self-regulation abilities and improve the client’s ability to participate in and complete tasks.

• Social and Relational Challenges: Addressed through structured peer interactions, social skills groups, and mentoring opportunities.

• Whole Brain Language Approach: Address the complex interplay of language factors such as processing, production, articulation, and functional communication. Incorporate alternate communication tools and devices when necessary.

• Movement and Flexibility: Provide frequent opportunities for movement input and flexibility in seating options for clients with limited independent mobility.

• Reflex Integration: Address early reflex integration and other primitive brain functions through specific movement activities and patterns.

• Physiological Barriers: Identify and address physiological barriers that impact brain health and central nervous system organization.

The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) supports individuals with a wide range of genetic syndromes, from common conditions to exceptionally rare diagnoses. Regardless of the prognosis, clients have the potential to grow and thrive. IWBMC focuses on enhancing overall brain health and improving communication between brain regions, providing the necessary input and stimulation to promote functional success. Individuals with genetic syndromes may face challenges in

• sensory processing

• mobility

• muscle tone

• communication

• visual and auditory processing

• cognitive function

• emotional and behavioral regulation

• independence in daily activities

Our approach fosters growth and improved quality of life.

How the IWBMC helps:

• Individualized Program Design: Targeting each client’s neurobiological framework to address their specific needs.

• qEEG Brain Map Analysis: Used to collaborate on therapeutic plans and track progress, addressing patterns of under or over-communication commonly seen in genetic syndromes. This helps build new neural pathways and correct compensatory overuse of certain brain areas.

• Sensory Regulation: Activities designed to reorganize sensory processing pathways for improved sensory regulation.

• Neurological Organization: Focus on auditory and visual sequential processing, working memory, processing speed, and retrieval abilities to enhance brain function.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cord strengthening and cross-lateral stimulation activities to improve coordination, movement efficiency, physical stamina, and promote new neural growth and communication within the brain.

• Reflex Integration: Address early reflex integration and other primitive brain functions through specific movement activities and patterns.

• Self-Regulation and Task Completion: Build self-regulation abilities, enhancing the client’s capacity to participate in and complete tasks.

• Behavioral Support: A positive interpersonal behavioral model to address and manage behavioral challenges.

• Multisensory Academic Approach: Teach academic skills through a multisensory approach, addressing underlying visual and auditory processing challenges.

• Whole Brain Language Approach: Address the complex interplay of language factors, including processing, production, articulation, and functional communication.

• Movement and Flexibility: Provide frequent movement opportunities and flexible seating options for individuals with limited independent mobility.

• Physiological Barriers: Identify and address physiological barriers that impact overall brain health and central nervous system organization.

The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) addresses the core challenges associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including sensory processing, mood regulation, behavioral control, and language comprehension and production. Individuals with ASD often experience overactivity in certain brain areas, leading to repetitive patterns, while other crucial areas related to social connection and language development may be underactive. IWBMC creates personalized programs to calm the overactive brain regions while strengthening the underactive areas, fostering better balance and overall brain function.

How the IWBMC helps:

• Support for Autism Spectrum Disorder: The IWBMC offers individualized program design targeting each client's neurobiological framework.

• qEEG Brain Mapping Analysis: Utilized for collaboration on therapeutic plans and tracking progress, addressing patterns of under or over-communication commonly seen in autism spectrum disorder. This helps calm overactive brain areas and boost underactive areas.

• Sensory Regulation: Activities to reorganize sensory processing pathways and promote better sensory regulation.

• Positive Interpersonal Behavior Model: Designed to address behavioral challenges and foster positive interactions.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cardiovascular and cross-lateral movement activities to promote new neural growth and enhance brain communication.

• Emotional Awareness and Self-Regulation: Increase awareness of emotions and their connection to thoughts and behaviors, helping to improve self-regulation abilities.

• Neurological Organization: Focus on auditory and visual sequential processing, working memory, processing speed, and retrieval abilities to improve brain function.

• Hemispheric Specialization: Assess and address the organization of the neurological system, including dominant hemisphere and hemispheric specialization.

• Whole Brain Language Approach: Addresses the complex factors involved in language processing, production, articulation, and functional communication.

• Multisensory Academic Skills Development: Teach academic skills through a multisensory approach while addressing underlying visual and auditory processing challenges.

• Learning Style Customization: Address each client’s unique learning style through specific academic assessments and a whole-brain approach to education.

• Physiological Barriers: Address any physiological barriers impacting overall brain health and central nervous system organization.

The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) is designed to address the core issues related to emotional, behavioral, and relational challenges. Clients may face difficulties with

• self-advocacy and self-esteem

• managing sensory needs

• building interpersonal relationships

• regulating emotions and behavior

• academic performance and retention

• attention and focus

• mood disorders.

IWBMC provides individualized care to help clients overcome these challenges and achieve greater emotional and behavioral balance.

How the IWBMC helps:

How the IWBMC supports, Emotional-Behavioral-Relational challenges

• Support for Emotional, Behavioral, and Relational Challenges: IWBMC provides individualized program design, focusing on each client’s neurobiological framework.

• Root Cause Targeting: Addresses the developmental issues behind outward challenges such as early reflex integration, cross-lateral abilities, and sequential processing.

• qEEG Brain Map Analysis: Used for collaboration on therapeutic plans and tracking progress, addressing patterns of under or over-communication commonly seen in emotional, behavioral, and relational disorders. This helps calm overactive areas and stimulate underactive areas.

• Consistent Care Approach: A colaberal method ensures seamless support between school and home, promoting consistency in care.

• Customized Learning Styles: Programs cater to each client’s unique learning style through specific academic assessments and a whole-brain approach to education.

• Culture of Faith, Hope, Truth, and Love:

  • Faith: Foster belief in personal growth and transformation through God’s guidance.

  • Hope: Embrace possibilities within ourselves and others.

  • Truth: Acknowledge and accept strengths and weaknesses in an open, productive, and fair manner.

  • Love: Treat everyone with respect, maintaining both physical and emotional safety.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cardiovascular and cross-lateral movement activities to promote new neural growth and improve brain communication.

• Social and Relational Challenges: Addressed through structured peer interactions, social skills groups, and mentoring opportunities.

• Positive Interpersonal Behavior Model: Helps address behavioral challenges by pre-teaching expectations during neutral moments.

• Mind-Body Connection: Focus on developing self-regulation abilities through increased awareness of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

• Self-Development Skills: Teach self-referencing, distress tolerance, and mindfulness to enhance emotional resilience.

• Trauma Support Model: Recognizes the impact of trauma on the brain and uses therapeutic methods to transform the adverse effects of traumatic experiences.

• Cognitive and Dialectical Behavioral Therapies (CBT & DBT): Integrated into care for emotional and behavioral support.

The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) supports clients with various intellectual and developmental delays by improving communication between brain areas responsible for sensory integration, speech and language processing, modulation, and executive function. Our individualized therapeutic programs focus on strengthening foundational brain functions to foster higher-level development and address gaps in the client's developmental progression. Intellectual and developmental delays often lead to challenges in

• cognitive and sensory processing

• academic learning and retention

• independence in daily activities

• emotional and behavioral regulation

• social skills

• mobility

IWBMC aims to enhance these areas for improved overall functioning.

How the IWBMC helps:

• Support for Intellectual and Developmental Delays: IWBMC offers individualized programs designed to target each client’s neurobiological framework.

• QEEG Brain Map Analysis: Utilized to collaborate on therapeutic plans and track progress, addressing patterns of under or over-communication commonly seen in intellectual and developmental delays. This helps build new neural pathways and correct sensory imbalances in the brain.

• Sensory Regulation: Activities aimed at reorganizing sensory processing pathways for improved regulation.

• Neurological Organization: Focus on auditory and visual sequential processing, working memory, processing speed, and retrieval abilities to enhance cognitive function.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cardiovascular and cross-lateral movement activities promote new neural growth, improve brain communication, and enhance physical coordination and stamina.

• Reflex Integration: Address early reflex integration and other primitive brain functions through specific movement activities and patterns.

• Self-Regulation and Task Completion: Build self-regulation abilities to improve participation and task completion.

• Hemispheric Specialization: Assess and address the organization of the neurological system, including hemispheric dominance and specialization.

• Multisensory Academic Approach: Teach academic skills using a multisensory approach while addressing any underlying visual or auditory processing challenges.

• Whole Brain Language Approach: Address the complex factors involved in language processing, production, articulation, and functional communication.

• Social and Relational Development: Support social and relational growth through structured peer interactions, social skills groups, and mentoring opportunities.

• Movement and Flexibility: Provide frequent movement opportunities and flexible seating options for individuals with limited mobility.

• Physiological Barriers: Identify and address physiological barriers impacting overall brain health and central nervous system organization.

The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) supports clients with various learning differences that hinder their ability to learn through traditional methods. Effective learning requires seamless communication between brain regions to process and synthesize academic concepts. Identifying the underlying neurological challenges is crucial, as clients who face repeated discouragement and perceived failure will continue to struggle if their difficulties are not addressed from a brain-based, emotional, and behavioral perspective. Clients with learning differences often encounter challenges with

• attention and focus

• auditory and visual processing

• critical thinking and problem-solving

• retention of academic concepts

• reading and math skills

• symbol recognition

• fine motor skills

• emotional and behavioral regulation

• social interactions.

IWBMC’s approach targets these areas for improved learning outcomes. How the IWBMC helps:

• Support for Learning Differences: IWBMC offers individualized programs targeting each client’s neurobiological framework.

• QEEG Brain Map Analysis: Used to collaborate on therapeutic plans and track progress, addressing patterns of under or over-communication often seen in clients with learning differences. This helps calm overactive areas and stimulate underactive areas.

• Hemispheric Communication: Increase communication between the left and right hemispheres to integrate logical and gestalt concepts, supporting reading, comprehension, word recognition, math computation, and overall learning.

• Neurological Organization: Focus on auditory and visual sequential processing, working memory, processing speed, and retrieval abilities to improve cognitive function.

• Visual Processing: Address visual abilities including sustained visual pursuits, visual consistency, visual fields, and figure-ground perception.

• Reflex Integration: Address early reflex integration and other primitive brain functions through specific movement activities and patterns.

• Hemispheric Specialization: Assess and address neurological system organization, including dominant hemisphere and hemispheric specialization.

• Academic Modifications: Incorporate modifications to reduce reliance on fine motor skills for academic output and improve accuracy of responses.

• Behavioral Support: A positive interpersonal behavior model to address and manage behavioral challenges. Pre-teach expectations during neutral moments to promote positive behaviors.

• Mind-Body Connection: Develop self-regulation abilities by increasing awareness of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Teach self-referencing, distress tolerance, and mindfulness skills.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cardiovascular and cross-lateral movement activities to promote new neural growth and improve interhemispheric communication.

• Multisensory Academic Approach: Teach academic skills through a multisensory approach while addressing underlying visual and auditory processing challenges.

• Social and Relational Development: Support social and relational skills through structured peer interactions, social skills groups, and mentoring opportunities.

• Movement and Flexibility: Provide frequent vestibular input and flexible seating options for clients with varying mobility needs.

• Physiological Barriers: Identify and address physiological barriers impacting overall brain health and central nervous system organization.

The Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care (IWBMC) offers a comprehensive, whole-person approach to addressing trauma-related disorders. This method ensures the healing and transformation of trauma responses from a neurological, brain-based perspective, considering every aspect of the client's experience—from their unique neural wiring and physiological state to their support network and environment. IWBMC’s trauma support model recognizes that trauma changes the brain, and to combat its maladaptive effects, the brain itself must be transformed. By understanding how external stimuli impact the brain, we aim to achieve similar positive changes through intentional and individualized therapeutic interventions. These interventions are designed to address brain communication patterns with specific focus on frequency, intensity, and duration, which form the foundation of the Interpersonal Whole Brain Model of Care and support lasting neurological healing.

• Support for Trauma-Related Disorders: IWBMC’s trauma support model acknowledges the impact of trauma on the brain and offers therapeutic strategies to transform the negative effects of traumatic experiences.

• Safe and Empowering Environments: We create environments that prioritize safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, and empowerment.

• Control-Seeking Tendencies: Address maladaptive and internalized control-seeking behaviors that often result from trauma.

• Neurotherapy: Focus on neurotherapy, particularly alpha training within the right hemisphere, to regulate brain activity.

• qEEG Data Utilization: Use EEG data to identify patterns of under- or over-communication in the brain, calming overactive areas and stimulating underactive regions common in trauma-related disorders.

• Individualized Program Design: Each program targets the neurobiological framework and focuses on brain-based approaches to address brain connectivity anomalies.

• Primitive Reflex Integration: Reorganize the brain through the integration of primitive reflexes.

• Physical Engagement: Frequent cardiovascular and cross-lateral movements promote new neural growth and enhance brain communication.

• Mindfulness and Body Awareness: Incorporate mindfulness practices, such as body scanning, to connect the mind and body, recognizing the body as an extension of the mind and key to healing.

• Healing Through Relationships: The healing process is relational. We foster relationships where individuals feel validated and accepted for who they are, not for what they know or do.

• Consistency and Empathy: Demonstrate patience, kindness, consistency, and empathy, offering structure and clear expectations—essential components of healing and connection.

• Emotional Integration: Over time, within trusted relationships, emotions and memories surface and can be integrated and rewired in healthier ways.

• Mind-Body Connection: Develop the mind-body connection to enhance self-regulation abilities and bring awareness to primitive emotional response patterns.

• Emotional Awareness: Increase awareness of emotions and their connection to thoughts and behaviors to improve self-regulation.

• Skills for Healing: Teach self-referencing, distress tolerance, and mindfulness to help manage emotions.

• Cognitive and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (CBT/DBT): Challenge core thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and behaviors through cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies to foster healing and growth.