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The Science Behind CalmConnect™
CalmConnect™ calms the nervous system and helps you get ready to learn and connect. There are many interventions that use music or movement to change behavior. CalmConnect™ is a patented, sensorimotor program that uses music, rhythmicity, patterns,...
From Me to We
It's more fun to play when we're on the same team Positive, safe social connections develop through shared synchronicity that comes from facial expressions, eye contact, attunement, activating mirror neurons, and moving rhythmically with others....
Audiovisual Synchrony
People on the autism spectrum live in a synchronized world. When Ami Klin, Ph.D. was the director of Yale’s Child Study Center Autism Program, he and Warren Jones, a CSC neuroscientist, pioneered the use of eye-tracking technology in autism...
Mirror Neurons
Giacomo Rizzolatti is a neurophysiologist at the University of Parma in Italy. In 1995 he was leading a team of researchers as they mapped the activity of the F5 area of the brain in macaque monkeys. F5 is in the premotor cortex and contains...
Affiliation Equals Safety
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is a small strip of the brain located deep within the frontal cortex and is part of the complex alarm system that was known primarily for picking up the distress of physical pain. Surprisingly, the dACC...
CalmConnect™, Safety, and the Vagus Nerve
Social connection is an essential part of what it means to be human; to survive and to thrive. Our safety was rooted in tribes and extended families as we cared for, and kept each other safe. That need for connection is hardwired into our bodies...
The Science of Fight or Flight
Beginning in the 1990’s sports and military psychologists examined the performance-limiting effects of ‘undesirable emotions’ like fear and anxiety. They looked at a fundamental question: Is the fear that you feel in combat the same fear that you...
Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Chapter ThreeMulti-Sensory Movement for All:Changing Our Physiology, Behavior and Performanceby Roberta Scherf and Chris Bye We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new book on trauma-informed care, edited by William Steele,Ph.D. The book...
CalmConnect™ Reduced Off Task Behavior 48% in NYC Schools
New York City Public Schools studied the impact of CalmConnect™ in reducing off task behavior in the classroom during the summer session of 2017. CalmConnect™ was used in two schools and two classrooms. The classrooms consisted of children in...
CalmConnect™ Reduced Off Task Behavior 58% in St. Paul Schools
St. Paul Schools measured CalmConnect™ efficacy in reducing off-task behavior in the spring of 2017. Prevent staff, school counselors, and school social workers observed students in eight classrooms, four in each of two schools. The classrooms...