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Brain Balance Achievement Centers offer the Brain Balance Program ® in 22 nationwide locations. The Brain Balance Program ® is an individualized and comprehensive approach to helping children with neurobehavioral and learning difficulties surmount their unique challenges. This proprietary, non-medical program has been successful in helping hundreds of children reach their physical, social/behavioral health and academic potential. We work with children who suffer with ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Tourette's, Asperger's and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Find out more about us now.



We’d like to extend our congratulations to a long time friend to Brain Balance™ Centers, Zac Brown Band.   They took home a Grammy Award this past Sunday night at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards for Best New Artist!  Check them out at ZacBrownBand.com.  Zac Brown has spoken publicly about his support for Brain Balance™ Centers and the book Disconnected Kids and is developing a charitable foundation to help children with developmental disorders such as Autism and ADHD.

From ZacBrownBand.com/Star Tribune:

Brown is a serious dude. Take his involvement with the Brain Balance centers that use physical therapy and nutrition to treat children with autism and ADHD. Brown is helping to build a camp in Georgia for children with severe disorders.

“I grew up working at camps similar to this,”said Brown, who’s married with two daughters and another on the way. “You can see in one week the difference you can make in a child’s life. When you integrate these mentally challenged kids with regular kids, they’ll have a compassion for those people for the rest of their lives.”

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Mixed-Handed Children More Likely to Have ADHD: Study Points to Functional Disconnection in Brain

by Brain BalanceFebruary 1, 2010

A study released this past week in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, finds that mixed handed children may be twice as likely to experience mental health, language and scholastic problems as well as display more severe symptoms of ADHD. (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).

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Epigenetics – How Environment and Personal Choices Can Influence Genetic Code

by Brain BalanceJanuary 26, 2010

What if your personal choices can alter your DNA for future generations? TIME Magazine published an article this month, “Why DNA Isn’t Your Destiny” that discusses just that. A new science of epigenetics, founded by years of research and data collected by Dr. Lars Olov Bygren, a preventive-health specialist who is now at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, reveals how the choices you make can change your genes and those of your kids.

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Research Shows Disconnect in Brain of ADHD Kids

by Brain BalanceJanuary 20, 2010

The University of California – Davis Center for Mind and Brain recently released a report showing that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have areas within their brains that fail to connect when they attempt a task that measures attention. The study involved giving children diagnosed with ADHD and normal children a simple attention test while their brain waves were measured. This is the first evidence from brain electrical patterns for a functional disconnection in cortical attention systems in ADHD, he said. Current definitions of ADHD are based only on behavior.

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New Study Finds Brain Imaging May Help to Diagnose Autism

by Brain BalanceJanuary 12, 2010

The latest news in the autism community related to findings of a study published in the journal Autism Research lends support of a biological measurement to help diagnose Autism.   The details of this study were reported by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their article “Brain Imaging May Help Diagnose Autism“:
In the current study, Roberts [...]

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Upcoming Event: Kids Enabled Resource Fair 2010

by Brain BalanceJanuary 3, 2010

For the many children in Georgia with learning differences – more than 182,000 reported in Atlanta metro schools alone – dealing with daily schoolwork can be discouraging. Kids Enabled™ formed to address all kinds of issues of children who fall within the broad spectrum of learning differences.
A “learning difference” is defined as any neurological disorder that impedes learning and can include a speech impediment, dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, auditory processing, language processing, vision processing, autism and Asperger’s syndrome, as well as other related disorders. Kids Enabled™ seeks not to label children with particular diagnoses, but seeks to provide information that will address symptoms that affect learning.

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David Kirby: Dr. Insel on Rising ASD Numbers: “No Question” About Environmental Factors

by Brain BalanceDecember 27, 2009

By David Kirby
On Friday, the CDC released its long-anticipated (HERE) autism figures, showing that the average rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) among 8-year-olds increased by nearly 60% between 2002 and 2006, with almost one percent of US kids affected.
Also on Friday, the nation’s top autism research coordinator said that better diagnosis and reporting could [...]

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Study Finds Fructose Could Contribute to Childhood Diabetes

by Brain BalanceDecember 14, 2009

The sweetener fructose, a cheap sugar substitute found in thousands of processed foods and soft drinks, may be increasing childhood diabetes and the obesity crisis, new findings suggest.

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Study: Early autism intervention in toddlers is effective

by Brain BalanceDecember 6, 2009

CNN Reports This Past Week:

(CNN) — Researchers have shown for the first time that if a child is diagnosed with autism as early as 18 months of age, offering the toddler age-appropriate, effective therapy can lead to raised IQ levels and improved language skills and behavior.
“Early intervention can be very effective for toddlers with autism,” [...]

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