I have read about DORE, is there someone doing it here in Israel?

I looked around and found what I think is an interesting thread.
This is from the Brain Gym site. If anyone finds out what the DORE
people have to say about Brain Gym then we are getting somewhere.
There is a tremendous overlap with Behavioral Optometry too(Drs.
Chaim Slomivic & Robert Lederman). I have been doing these types of
things for several years now with tremendous success, but I am not
formally trained in anything so I can be a expert in everything.

There is also an overlap with the Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflex people
too. That is the Miriam Bender Center in Chicago. See Drs Nancy
O'Dell & Patricia Cook.
Nachum

from
http://www.braingym.org/index.html

Dear David,
I hate to comment on a program I know very little about. I did go to
their web site and it appears that they operate from a medical model
with doctors making a diagnosis of a brain dysfunction and
prescribing neuro-motor development activities as a cure, assuming
everyone with a similar dysfunction needs the same corrective
activities. Again, I know little of their program other than what I
read on their web site and what I know of similar programs. They may
be more in tune with the individuals needs than I could ascertain.

In the Brain GymŽ work we operate from an educational model. We do
not make a diagnosis or prescription. We help you find the specific
activities which will help you to acheive your goal/improve the skill
(s) you want to improve. The Brain Gym exercises may be more directly
related to the early childhood neuro-motor development movements that
we all perform as infants to develop these systems in the first
place. I only base this on the example given on their web site. We
also find that, exept in more severe cases, unlike yours as you
describe yourself, that the development is there already for some
circumstances, or skills, and that it is more of a matter of
connecting already learned skills (brain activity) with the one that
you wish to improve, than developing new skills. A part of our work
which we call the balance process helps to do this. In a balance
process you focus and anchor your mind/body on the skill you want to
improve and what you mind/body does when attempting to perform it.
The exercises you perform in the learning menu become more of a
reminder that you already know how to do this for some things, rather
than strictly a developmental process, and connect that ability to
the specific circumstance of your goal. We find people more typically
developed (not severely developmentally delayed) often respond more
quickly to this method. Of course if the skill (neural development)
is not fully developed the exercises will help achieve that also. I
hope this discription helps. I recommend that you talk with someone
from the Dore Center and a Brain Gym practitioner and decide for
yourself what is the best path for you.
Sincerely,
Dave Saunders


Hello Dave

Dave Saunders comments are excellent.
A Dore centre has recently opened in Auckland, New Zealand, and one
of the people they have hired to work for them is an Occupational
Therapist who has just trained as a BG instructor.

My suggestion is, give BG a go--it is cheaper (here in NZ anyway) and
much more versatile in its tools and personalised approach.

Yours, Barbara Wards



My son has been on the Dore program for nearly 9 mos now. The Dore
method is focused on automaticity and treating the cause not the the
symptoms of his learning difficulty. My sons program is customized,
based on his specific test results. Additionally, they montitor his
progress every six weeks and update his excercises based on his
current level of acheivement. The staff at Dore are all highly
trained professionals who take a personal and caring interest in my
sons progress. We have seen dramatic improvements in his attention,
focus, sequential memory and above all: self confidence. My husband
and I have no regrets involving our son in the Dore program. We
highly recommend it.


Dear Drake,
It sounds like ther are many similarities between the Dore program
and the
Brain GymŽ program, especially in that developing the brain
integration to meet your goals in the Brain Gym work addresses the
source of the difficulty not just the symptom.
Sincerely,
Dave Saunders


According to the Dore research, they developed the program based on
the Learning Breakthrough Program by Dr. Frank Belgau. It has been
around since the 1980s and costs only $350, not $2500 like Dore.
Sounds like Learning Breakthrough is similar to Brain Gym but
structured for daily, at home use. Read about it at
www.learningbreakthrough.com.

Dear Al,
Brain GymŽ exercises are also done daily or as needed at home. The
balance work, the private session educational process work done with
a practitioner, does greatly enhance the work and is sometimes
necessary to start the change process.
Sincerely,
Dave Saunders