Join us for an enlightening conversation with Angela Clark, a renowned speech therapist and expert in child brain development. In this episode, Angela delves into the fascinating world of speech therapy, exploring how it supports children's cognitive and social growth. She also sheds light on Melillo's Method, a revolutionary approach to addressing developmental and neurological disorders in children, including ADHD, autism, and learning disabilities. Discover the transformative power of targete...
Jan 07, 2025•26 min
Join us for an eye-opening episode with Dr. Christy Sutton, a leading expert in integrative and functional medicine, as we delve into the complex world of iron and its impact on health. In this episode, Dr. Sutton dispels common myths and misconceptions about iron, shedding light on both iron deficiency and iron overload. What You'll Learn: The essential role of iron in the body and why it's crucial for overall health. Common symptoms and causes of iron deficiency and iron overload. How to prope...
Nov 29, 2024•27 min
Join us for an enlightening episode with Jessica McGuire, a renowned vagus nerve specialist, as she dives deep into the world of the vagus nerve and its crucial role in our health. With over 13 years of experience as a physiotherapist, Jessica now focuses on teaching how to repair and optimize the nervous system through the vagus nerve. In this podcast, Jessica explains: -What the vagus nerve is and why it's important -How to identify if you need to nurture your vagus nerve -Techniques to manage...
Nov 27, 2024•22 min
In this enlightening episode, we're joined by Janelle Boychuk, an expert in pediatric nutrition and wellness, to discuss the importance of mineral testing for children. Janelle will shed light on how mineral imbalances can affect a child's health, behavior, and overall development. We'll explore the various methods of mineral testing, what parents should look for, and how to interpret the results. Janelle will also share practical tips on addressing mineral deficiencies through diet and suppleme...
Oct 20, 2024•20 min
In this enlightening episode, Dr. Yvonne Chong takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of neurofeedback and its impact on children’s facial expressions. Dr. Chong, a renowned chiropractor with ICSC and FIBFN-CND certifications, will delve into how neurofeedback can be a game-changer in understanding and improving children’s emotional health. She’ll share her insights on the science behind neurofeedback, its practical applications, and how it can help children better express and manage t...
Oct 13, 2024•26 min
Podcast Episode: Balancing the Brain - Insights with Dr. Melissa Wittman This episode I welcome Dr. Melissa Wittman, a leading expert in Functional Neurology, Nutrition, and Nervous System Regulation. Join us as we delve into the intricacies of brain health, exploring how functional neurology and targeted nutrition can profoundly influence nervous system regulation. Dr. Wittman shares her extensive knowledge of practical strategies to support neurodevelopment, manage stress, and enhance overall ...
Oct 12, 2024•22 min
This is an extremely interesting video podcast with Gemma and Birinder about their experience dealing with seizures and different neurological difficulties with their children. The progress made is amazing. Gemma and Birinder want to share the hope this can bring with parents struggling with similar issues. Gemma is the founder of Neuro Frontiers: neuroplasticity therapies research and practice. Her son’s recovery was dramatic – so much so that, at one point, his neurosurgeon asked her to come a...
Feb 24, 2023•34 min
Chat with Dr. Michael Bagnell about Functional Neurology and healing. In this fascinating Interview with Dr. Michael Bagnell we speak about his clinic and about intensive treatment at Bagnell Brain Center in Miami, Florida where he treats children and young adults with brain related challenges and issues. We discuss the hemispheric module and neurofeedback being used as part of the treatment being top down approach and how can we rewire the brain with new cutting edge technology and research don...
Jun 23, 2022•20 min
Chat with Dr. Michael Bagnell about Functional Neurology and healing. In this fascinating Interview with Dr. Michael Bagnell we speak about his clinic and about intensive treatment at Bagnell Brain Center in Miami, Florida where he treats children and young adults with brain related challenges and issues. We discuss the hemispheric module, Melillo's Method and neurofeedback being used as part of the treatment being top down approach and how can we rewire the brain with new cutting edge technolog...
Jun 23, 2022•20 min
Rachael Singer is a Founder of Rachael’s Moving HeARTS, she is a certified dance/movement therapist using floor time methodology to engage children on the spectrum or children with developmental or challenging behaviour to help them relax and calm in a supportive environment. Rachael also trains and coaches adults on how to understand their children better and how to play and reconnect with them. On the chat, we discuss the challenges parents face and how to help their children tune down and rel...
Feb 02, 2022•22 min
Chat with Matt about sensory gym and how to help children with sensory difficulties. we talk about our senses especially about the vestibular and proprioceptive senses, how to get kids to relax before bed and why is it important to work on core, coordination and sensory integration to support children's development. Matt gives practical tips to implement at home Check your child development blueprint for free for under 3 minutes. Dana has a FREE assessment tool to outline the areas of developmen...
Jan 23, 2022•24 min
Dr. Patrick Porter is a brain researcher and the inventor of BrainTap. We talk about sleep, relaxation and light therapy and how can our brain recharge itself by getting enough deep delta sleep. What are the different brain waves and how can we tune ourselves to relax and reduce stress and promote relaxation. =============================================================================================== Dr. Patrick kindly offers 15 days free trial following the link below: https://tinyurl.com/sp...
Aug 04, 2021•35 min
In this chat I talk to Mona Delahooke about the Polyvagal theory and ways to help children when they shut down or when they are in a fight or flight state. I speak to Dr. Mona about her book "Beyond Behaviors" that shifted the way I looked at parenting looking at behaviors as the tip of the iceberg and focusing on developing meaningful relationships. As parents we need to pay attention to the important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in th...
Jul 21, 2021•24 min
Kelly Mahler has been an occupational therapist for 18 years, serving school-aged children and adults. Kelly is an international speaker and presents frequently on topics related to sensory integration and interception in particular. In this chat we speak about ways to help kids on the spectrum to understand the signs we get from our body and how to help them thrive. Dana has a FREE assessment tool to outline the areas of development your child will benefit from the most. In less than 3 minutes ...
Jul 21, 2021•24 min
In this chat I speak to Alex about sensory kids and swings, the input swings and other ways to help children on the autistic spectrum. Alex Lopiccolo known by the name The king of Swings is an OT specializing in designing sensory rooms and swings for private use. He is running Sensorimotor Workshop as an instructor and designs Home/Therapy Clinic Sensory Gym equipment. Alex Lopiccolo's sensory gyms come in all shapes and sizes and help kids who benefit from therapeutic movement. and above all, t...
Jul 12, 2021•12 min
In this video I talk to Dr. Sharik Peck about his invention and how to use the tuner to tune your body's energies in order to promote relaxation calm and healing. There are many ways to promote emotional regulation and methods to help integrate primitive reflexes faster using the Rezzimax Tuner Pro as it trains the vagus nerve to calm down our nervous system. This tool is being used as a therapeutic device by many clinicians around the world for a good reason and its available at special 20% dis...
Jun 03, 2021•35 min
In this chat I speak to Lauren Butcher about Mini-Mindfuls course and the concept of mindfulness and meditation for children, the benefits and the way she incorporates learning through play. We also talk about stress relief for children and adults and the benefits we can expect from her course and from mindfulness in general. Lauren found a way to reconnect to her child through mindfulness and play focusing on cognitive development and emotional regulation. she created a 12-Week Home Series all ...
Jul 26, 2020•19 min
In this chat I talk to Sheila Frick the founder of Vital Links about sensory kids and auditory therapeutic listening, a program I attended more than 8 years ago which impacted my son's ability to focus, improved his speech and his motor skills, coordination and communication. Sheila has well over 40 years of clinical experience, having worked in psychiatry, rehabilitation, and home health before specialising in paediatrics. Sheila expertise includes sensory processing dysfunction, sensory integr...
Jul 09, 2020•35 min
In this facinating chat I talk to Afshan about emotions and how to help our children express a wider range of emotions that will help them through life. We talk about the affect of breathing and relaxation techniques, 'Emotional Fitness' and why is it important to implement it in day to day life and the relationship between the emotions and behaviour.. Afshan has become a sought-after expert of emotional and “whole life” wellness for families and has been featured on multiple parenting shows, it...
Jun 05, 2020•33 min
Listen to this eye opening chat with Dr. Kyle Daigle in which we discuss the importance of working on the primitive reflexes and helping children using multi sensory holistic approach. Kyle is a chiropractor who utilizes a special treatment which combines multiple fields of science - from Chiropractic, Low Powered Lasers, Vibration Therapy, Physiotherapy, Applied Kinesiology, and Clinical Nutrition. His primary focus is to help his patients regain a sense of Neurological balance by making sure y...
Dec 31, 2019•25 min
Gaynor is a an experienced teacher, who has always had a passion for bringing out the best in her students. Now, she combines her years of teaching experience with RMT, to investigate the possible roots of difficulties and work with them from the foundation, upwards. We talk about awareness to the primitive reflexes role in normal development and the signs you should look for as a parent for normal developmental delays. Having personally encountered and experienced the profound effectiveness of ...
Aug 09, 2019•25 min
Dr. Laura Markham is the founding editor of AhaParenting.co m she also serves as a parenting expert for many websites, makes frequent TV and radio appearances and has been interviewed for thousands of articles by publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Real Simple, Newsday, Men's Health, Redbook and Parents Magazine. Over 140,000 parents subscribe to her weekly email. Dr. Laura Markham's relationship-based parenting model, which she calls Peaceful Parenting, has h...
Jul 07, 2019•32 min
Daniel Ansari is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, where he heads the Numerical Cognition Laboratory. Ansari and his team explore the developmental trajectory underlying both the typical and atypical development of numerical and mathematical skills, using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. It is highly important that children will develop numerical and mathe...
Jun 10, 2019•18 min
In this fascinating chat with Professor Ockelford we talk about the ways to help children on the autistic spectrum through music. While attending the Royal Academy of Music in London, Adam started working with children with special needs - a number of whom, he noticed, had special musical abilities too. He was intrigued by just how musical many of them seemed to be. Trying to understand how these young people could 'hear' and understand music so effectively led him to develop a theory of how mus...
May 22, 2019•21 min
This is fascinating talk with Dr. Maya about children's health and nutrition following the 3 foundations: -Getting exposed to germs and microbes -Eating fresh food from healthy soil -Getting outdoors into nature Dr. Maya believes that children’s bodies naturally have the capacity to be healthy and heal when they have the tools to do so. Her plan starts with the soil, using fresh foods and nature to heal children from the inside out and the outside in. Revealing the profound connections between f...
May 15, 2019•26 min
In this fascinating episode Steve talks about the problems for learners who are dyscalculic and/or who have trouble in learning mathematics is retaining facts and procedures in long term memory and the way to address these problems by developing an understanding of those maths facts and procedures. DYSCALCULIA is a specific learning difficulty with mathematics, primarily arithmetic. It's a condition that affects the ability to acquire mathematical skills. Dyscalculic learners may have a difficul...
Apr 28, 2019•37 min
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Nicole Beurkens about helping children of ADD and ADHD and others on the autistic spectrum. Parents are not aware that medication is not the only way and the long terms effect of medication. By making changes to their day to day patterns and implementing the right nutrition parents can help their children to flourish and improve symptoms and functioning for their child. discover the 5 areas you must address to consistently improve behavior for children and young...
Apr 17, 2019•31 min
This is an amazing chat with Debbie Olley who is a qualified Craniosacral Therapist in London. I was looking for a therapy to help my boys relax and calm down tantrum, focusing and attention as well as regulating their emotions and other behavioural challenges.I met Debbie as she has an amazing approach to people in general and kids with learning difficulties in particular. On the call we discuss what is Craniosacral Therapy and ways to help children overcome their difficulties with this gentle ...
Apr 09, 2019•30 min
Do you or does someone you care about have sensory processing challenges? My chat with Lindsey is all about sensory challenges and practical solutions for overcoming sensitivities to noise, touch, movement, visuals, taste, and smell that can interfere with function at home, at school,Sensory strategies and where to get help. Lindsey Biel, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist with a private practice in NYC where she evaluates and treats children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and o...
Mar 24, 2019•39 min
Jenniffer tells her story and the way she discovers a new world of alternative medicine hidden from most parents.Many mainstream doctors recommended medication rather than address the underlying causes. many children are biochemically unbalanced and plagued by nutritional deficiencies. As a result of genetic mutations and food intolerances, the intestinal system becomes inflamed, causing inflammation and preventing proper metabolic and brain functioning. Dana has a FREE assessment tool to outlin...
Mar 17, 2019•19 min
