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Anchoress
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posted 26 April 2005 06:19 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
EDMONTON - Children in Edmonton with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are testing a controversial treatment that aims to improve their concentration.
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LeftRight
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posted 26 April 2005 09:58 PM      Profile for LeftRight   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There sure seems to be a lot of negative feedback about prognosis using biofeedback for learning prep and identity re-enforcement.

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The money is not well spent, according to Dr. Wendy Roberts, a specialist in ADHD at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

Roberts said she is not convinced that using biofeedback to teach a child strategies to focus their attention and fill in gaps in learning will help them pick up skills.

Paying for tutors and counselling is better, she believes. http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/04/22/ADHD-therapy050422.html


Cost is mostly a sales gimic than actual requirement as far I know. All that messy equipment is only one angle of using biofeeback. Mental focus is indespensable for 'picking up skills' just as time/duration is relevant to efficiency. Then there is the "skill" question; what are skills and the kinds of/for "skill"? What about quality of/for life sensuous experience and actualization? What about integration of self with the here-now-body?
Biofeedback is not a pre-selfconscious act, so it is not a teaching of strategies per se.


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