* NOTE - Must be IM Certified to receive CEU credit for webinar * - All videos available on Youtube (IMetronome) - Get the Most from IM-Home: Tips and Motivational Strategies This course is designed to help IM Providers of all professional disciplines successfully transition clients from Interactive Metronome® (IM) training in the clinic or school setting to training in the home setting with IM Home. Lisa Poe, an experienced IM Provider, IM Instructor, & IM-Home Specialist, will share tips & strategies developed in clinical practice to elicit the most from each client with regard to motivation, compliance & performance in order to achieve optimal results. Lisa will discuss age-specific training considerations, specific tips & motivational strategies, including “tools” that can be found in and around the home to enhance motivation toward training and results. Several photos and videos have been incorporated into this presentation to best illustrate the ideas shared.

1. Get the Most from
IM-Home: Tips &
Motivational Strategies
Lisa Poe, OTR/L

2. What you will learn in this webinar
How to:
• Identify a client who would be a great candidate for
the IM-Home Unit
• What age appropriate education will you provide?
• Intrinsic motivators
• Extrinsic motivator
• Create a reward chart
• Create your own custom exercise

3. Transitioning from the IMPro
to the IM-Home
• Clinical Setting
– Insurance limitations or schedule constraints
– Client has neurodegenerative disease and needs ongoing treatment
to maintain gains
• Continued ongoing performance program
• School System
• Classroom performance
• Inclusion into regular education classes
• Sports performance
• Sports performance
• Rural Environment
• Competitive Athletes
• Adults
• Stress management, attention/focus in the work environment
• Senior adults – Brain Fitness

4. Why IM-Home?
Education
Understanding
Engagement

5. First Consultation/Meeting
• Goal Setting
• Understand the effects of IM Home and its
neurological benefits
• Importance of participating and completing program
• Address possibility of decreased motivation and
strategies to meet these challenges

6. Understanding the Brain
• IM Resource Video
– Meadow –
Movie: Neuroplasticity
Explanation for Interactive
Metronome_Meadow.flv

7. Understanding the Brain
• IM Resource Video
– DSL vs Dial-Up –
Movie: Ask the Expert- Dial Up
vs DSL.flv

8. www.imhome.org
• Best Practices for Pediatrics and Adults
• Video Clips of Success Stories
• IM Specific Research
• Supporting Research

9. Look Book
• The Look Book is a
great place to check
out case studies,
special program
info, success stories
and a “Provider of
the Month” section

10. Home Visit
• Understanding your
client’s environment
• Interests, hobbies, play
room
• Family involvement
• Create individualized
training
exercises/templates

11. IM Universe
• Video games
• Sports – Golf, Basketball, Soccer
• Kids – Aliens, Monkey, Fairy
• Eye Movement – Fishing (saccades), Sammich
(smooth pursuit)
• General – Zen Garden, Groovy, Picture Board

12. IM Universe in Action
Movie: IM Universe.flv

13. Motivation
Intrinsic vs Extrinsic

14. Intrinsic Motivation
• Intrinsic (internal) motivation is motivation within
the individual that is driven by interest or
enjoyment in the task itself.

15. Intrinsic Motivators
• Interest
• Hobbies
• Self- accomplishments
• Individualized goals

16. Extrinsic Motivation
• Extrinsic (external) motivation refers to the
performance of an activity in order to accomplish an
outcome.

17. Extrinsic Motivators
• Rewards
– Time with family
members
– Praise – verbal/tactile
– Reward Charts – KISMIF
– Keep it simple, make it
fun
– Ticket System
– Individual goals

18. Not Motivated???
• Challenging client
• Scheduling conflict
o Parent – work
o Child – extracurricular activities
• During your initial consultation/history review,
parent reports child has difficult time completing
task

19. Create a Reward Chart
• Step 1: Decide what the motivation will be emphasized
on – ms task average, Burst total, In A Row total
• Step 2: Determine the length of time – daily, weekly,
completion of each session
• Step 3: Choose your medium to display the clients
success – poster board, note book, stickers, pretend
money/bank, etc.

20. Create a Reward Chart

21. Pediatrics

22. Age Appropriate: 6 – 11 year old
• Important to develop and build a trusting relationship
• What are their interest – Dolls, trains, dancing, action figures/heroes, video
games, sports, friends, etc.
• Level of understanding – “Do you know why you came to see me today?” Usual
response “My Mom says I have a hard time focusing.”
• Opens the door for you to teach the child what the IM-Home is and how it works.
• For explanation purposes, you may use cartoon pictures of the brain/neuron,
brain model, involvement of the child placing their right hand on the right side of
the head with instruction this helps their left side move and feel and vice versa
with the left hand on left side of head, moving the right arm and leg, etc.

23. Katelyn with Stroller
Movie: M2u00319.flv

24. Katelyn with Friend
Movie: M2U00327.flv

25. Katelyn with Doll
Movie: M2U00328.flv

26. Katelyn Walking
Movie: M2U00334.flv

27. Mallory with Doll
Movie: M2U00348.flv

28. Mallory with Tap Mat
Movie: M2U00349.flv

29. Mallory Clapping
Movie: M2U00352.flv

30. Mallory with Tap Mat & Doll
Movie: M2U00355.flv

31. Mallory with Multiple Triggers
Movie: M2U00357.flv

32. Adolescence/Teenagers

33. 12 – 18 years old
• Develop a trusting relationship
• Interest – Sports, video games, hobbies, etc.
• Provide education on the effects of the Interactive
Metronome – try to relate what their interest is
• Example – Client enjoyed Nascar racing. While
comparing the pistons moving smoothly up and down to
the neurons firing in the brain, the client responded
“Oh, the brain is like the engine in a race car. The better
the engine, the better the car!”

34. Isaac with Slingshot
Movie: M2U00359.flv

35. Isaac with Basketball
Movie: M2U00363.flv

36. Isaac Doing Homework
Movie: M2U00364.flv

37. Isaac with Multiple Triggers
Movie: M2U00366.flv

38. Evan Racking Billiards
Movie: M2U00337.flv

39. Evan Tapping Cue
Movie: M2U00338.flv

40. Evan Playing Guitar
Movie: M2U00342.flv

41. Adults/Geriatrics

42. Adults/Geriatrics
• Begin to develop relationship
• What are their interest
• Problems/concerns
• Neurological Deficit – CVA, TBI, Chemo Brain, Cognitive
Decline, etc.
• Education - IM Research, brain model, etc.
• Case Studies
• IM Marketing materials

43. Stephen
Movie: Stephen.flv

44. Frances Sitting/Standing
Movie: frances.flv

45. Frances in Kitchen
Movie: frances2.flv

46. Poster
Creative ways to get your clients motivated at home
Download from
Additional Materials
link in
Confirmation Email
or on
Provider Login

47. Resources
• IM Home Certification Course
• IM Home Web Library
• Video Clips
• Research
• Best Practices for Pediatrics and Adults
• Information from Peers who are IM Certified
• Understanding Body: A good look inside your insides by Rebecca Treays
ISBN 07 460 33524
• Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by Joanne Deak ISBN 9780982993804
• YouTube – Imetronome
• IM Webinars
• Ipad apps – Ned the Neuron https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nedtheneuron/id562657316?mt=8
• Brain Jump with Ned the Neuron: Challenges Grow Your Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7FdMi03CzI
• Your Fantastic Elastic Brain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3kbXBah5Y

48. Peer reviewed journal references and
relevant publications
• Askins, Lindsey;Diasio, Brittany; Szewerniak, Dagmara; and Cahill, Susan
M. Ph.D., OTR/L (2013) “Children with Developmental Disabilities and
their Motivation to Play,” The Open Journal and Occupational Therapy:
Vol. 1: Iss. 4, Article 4.
• Benson, J. Nicka, M., Stern, P. How does a child with sensory processing
problems play? The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and
Practice. October 2006. Volume 4 Number 4.
• Henry, Alexis D. (2000) “Surveys of Play for Children and Adolescents”
Therapy Skills Builders. www.tpcweb.com

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