An assessment of Carrick's brain-based model of care in the treatment of functional disconnection syndrome: A case study.

摘要

Functional disconnection syndrome (FDS) is a neurological condition of hemispheric differences that may cause learning and behavioral disorders. Learners with FDS may have difficulty educationally, socially, and personally. Traditional approaches towards these conditions, including educational, psychological, and pharmaceutical interventions have had limited success. This study describes a sequential mixed method case study of a learner with FDS expressed as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS) who under went care designed to improve his neurological function via brain-based methods first described by F. R. Carrick. The future use of this model may provide for the logical progression of brain-based learning to brain-based rehabilitation in education so that truly no child will be left behind.