The Journey Begins
This annual celebration on July 10 highlights the county-wide impact of our holistic brain training approach.
What is Brain Balance Day?
Using these is significant to help us process everything around us, how we feel our body, and overall is why we wear the "gear" at BB.
What are senses?
TREC stand for: Trauma-______ Educational Communities.
What is resilient?
This form should be filled out for all student schedule requests, including absences, changes, additions, and no-shows.
What is the session schedule submission form?
When greeting families, it’s important to use this instead of just addressing the student to build rapport and show respect.
What is parent/guardian's name?
Awareness, consideration, decision, service, and loyalty make up this path that every family takes from first hearing about us to long-term trust and advocacy.
What is the customer journey?
This skill involves sensing your body in space, identifying movement, controlling your reactions, and even supporting personal space and boundaries by helping different brain areas work together.
What is body awareness?
This acronym stands for stressful or traumatic events that occur during childhood and can have a negative impact on a person's physical, emotional, and social development.
What are ACES (adverse childhood experiences)?
When communicating with families, we want to embrace neurodiversity, keep updates quick and short, and if a session was challenging, mention one challenge but end on a ______.
What is positive note?
Feedback on what to continue, change, or add to benefit coaches and families is especially appreciated during this type of gathering that we have biweekly.
What are staff meetings?
Our program incorporates cognitive exercise, physical, and sensory exercise, and ________ methods and combines them into one optimized approach.
What is nutrition?
In many of our visual processing activities, the eyes react to ____, accuracy, and endurance.
What is speed?
This is the acronym for positive relationships, safe environments, and healthy social networks during youth that support emotional development and can help combat the effects of ACEs.
What are PACES (protective and compensatory experiences)
These types of discussions, like program challenges or parent communications, should always be held behind closed doors or away from the lobby.
What are confidential?
To encourage progress at home, coaches should acknowledge students’ hard work, and motivate them/reinforce the importance of doing these.
What are home exercises?
Sensory, motor, behavioral, social-emotional, and cognitive make up this framework that guides our program’s approach to whole-brain development.
What are the five domains/pillars of brain health?
This area, at the top of the developmental pyramid, involves memory, comprehension, logic, timing of speech and coordination, and helps ensure a coordinated body = a coordinated brain.
What is synchronization?
Also known as the “rest and digest” system, this branch of the autonomic nervous system dampens the fight-or-flight response, and if it’s weak, a person may stay in stress mode longer than necessary, leading to perceived anxiety.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
When communicating with students, it’s important to consider their goals, mindset, and behavior management strategies, and to focus on their ______ level rather than just their chronological age.
What is developmental?
To build trust and accountability, staff should communicate any situations promptly and clearly with families using this type of report, keeping tone factual, empathetic, and solution-oriented.
What is incident report?
This developmental principle states that strong foundational sensory and motor skills must be built before higher-level thinking and self-control can reliably develop.
What is bottom-up/foundational development?
Developmental reflexes develop before and after birth to support ______, movement, and body coordination.
What is posture?
Known as the brain’s alarm system, this emotional center is often called the fear center and becomes heightened during stress or anxiety.
What is the amygdala?
This system helps coaches reduce chaos during transitions by providing a consistent sequence for sensory-motor and cognitive activities.
What is A/B flow?
These checks are important to monitor overall changes, track progress outside of BB, and encourage consistency with exercises at home.
What are prim checks?