The Interactive Metronome ® (IM) is a valuable new educational tool for children with dyspraxia, language delays, attention deficits, learning, cognitive, sensory integration and motor challenges.

Attention learning and and problem solving depend on the capacity ot plan and sequence actions and ideas. This capacity relates directly to a child's ability to follow directions, read, write, do math and to think. The IM enhances people's ability to plan, sequence and organize by integrating auditory processing with timing and rhythm.

Potential trainees take a pretest, which quantifies their ability to recognize timing patterns, selectively attend to tasks and make simple motion corrections. The pretest indicates if a person has specific deficiency patterns that need to be addressed.

The IM training helps individuals improve their ability to focus, attend and concentrate for extended periods of time. The IM is paired with special changing sounds that systematically guide the used through a series of exercises. The 13 IM treatment exercises are primarily designed to enhance mental concentration.

The actual number of IM sessions varies according to each individual's pre-existing capabilities, needs, neural habits and goals. Typically, each subject spends one hour per day , over a 3 to 5 week period. Approximately 15 hour-long IM sessions are scheduled.

The typical results show that the experience of staying on beat has a very positive motivating effect. Planning and sequencing abilities improve. According to noted child psychiatrist Stanley I. Greenspan, MD., "Attention, learning and problem solving depend on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The IM helps children improve their foundational planning and sequencing capacities."