Workshop - Ralph Warnke, Dr. Christel Kannegießer-Leitner

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Hemoencephalography: HEG Based Neurofeedback Practically Introduced as a Smart and Easy-to-Use Training Method in ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia and other Learning Disorders
Ralph Warnke, Dr. Christel Kannegießer-Leitner
1-day Workshop 

Neurofeedback is a fast progressing treatment method. The scope of pathologies and non-pathologies being treated with neurofeedback is likewise growing steadily. A key downside of current standard neurofeedback training is the lengthy treatment periods. I.e. in ADD patients, standard number of sessions often exceeds 40 weekly trainings.

This work describes a different approach to neurofeedback treatment. It is based on the concept of nIR-based HEG therapy as proposed by Toomin and others. The key target groups here are ADD/ADHD children, dyslexic children and children with other forms of learning disorders. Providing clients with a rather compact structure of HEG based neurofeedback training with several sessions per day over a duration of one or two weeks each appears to have similar if not better effects on clients than a lengthy form of therapy. The overall aim of this approach is to provide children and youth with limited concentration and endurance with a treatment they can more easily cope with and perceive as successful in a fast and convincing way.

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About Ralph Warnke

Ralph Warnke is the president of MediTECH, an innovative German medical device manufacturer. Warnke has been teaching biofeedback and neurofeedback courses for well over a decade. He has led and participated in national and international research projects targeting improving learning, concentration and brain processing skills. (i.e. the European funded research project F.L.I.C. – Foreign language acquisition with the instinct of a child). His latest research was dedicated to the treatment of functional analphabets, showing significant plastic neuronal change changes in the brain regarding language tasks shown in fMIR.

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About Dr. Christel Kannegießer-Leitner

Dr. Christel Kannegießer-Leitner is an experienced medical doctor from Southern Germany. She has written several books on ADD/ADHD, learning disorders and related subjects. The Psycho-Motor Holistic Therapy (PMHG) was developed by her, helping many hundreds of children in Central Europe with learning disorders or even severe physical and/or mental disorders. Kannegießer-Leitner has been an invited speaker to dozens of presentations and has established a network of medical doctors and trainers in Germany working and facilitating PMHG therapy.

Workshop - Edna Tune, BSc., MA

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From Disabilities to (Learning) Differences Over to Abilities & Control and Learning Gifts in Correlation with the Frontal Lobe


Topics:

• What is a learning disability (LD ) and what isn’t one?
• A brief history of treatment methods for learning disabilities (LD) – both comic and tragic
• A new and promising key to unlocking the mystery of LD – Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
• Stress as a major factor in dealing with disabilities (theirs, their families, their teacher’s/employer’s)
• The Intake Interview Tools – psychophysiological instruments and more.
• The Confusion Cycle, how you can identify it and what you can do about it.
• Perceptual distortions and how they affect learning, their triggers, their effects throughout the school day and at home.
• A micro look at Thinking Styles – what teachers and parents may not know.
• Lateral Training: a breakthrough approach to balancing the processing speeds of the brain to visual and auditory stimuli at the basal level of the central nervous system for more consistent attentional skills.
• “THE MIX”: some variations on how we combine the various systems (sequentially and parallel) peripheral multimodal biofeedback, neurofeedback, Brain Boy /Lateral Trainer, HEG (nIR HEG and pIR HEG), HRV (Heart Math), pROSHI

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About Edna Tune, Bsc. MA and Dan Tune, BA
Biofeedback practitioners and coaches (IAPB)

Edna and Dan Tune have had four decades of experience in the teaching, training and coaching fields.

At their respective learning centers in Israel they have worked with thousands of adults and children who present with a whole range of learning difficulties. Their programs are in most cases intensive, ranging from 9 to 30 hours a week, followed by many months of support work and continued follow up.

Edna is chairman of the Israeli Biofeedback – Neurofeedback association.

Depending upon the person, the problem, the need, they rely on a “mix” of peripheral biofeedback, neurofeedback, and other innovative brain technologies to regulate and balance the LD brain. As educators and performance coaches, they weave these throughout the day into the framework of their content-oriented tutoring or coaching programs.