Interactive Metronome (IM)*

What is IM?

The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a brain-based rehabilitation assessment and

training program developed to directly improve the processing abilities that affect

attention, motor planning, and sequencing. This, in turn, strengthens motor skills,

including mobility and gross motor function, and many fundamental cognitive

capacities such as planning, organizing, and language.

Who Can Benefit?

Individuals with motor planning and sequencing problems, speech and language

delays, motor and sensory disorders, learning deficits, and various cognitive and

physical difficulties may benefit from the IM program.

Adult and pediatric patients

who have benefited from IM include those with:

Sensory Integration Disorder

Asperger Syndrome

Autism Spectrum Disorder

ADD/ADHD

Cerebral Palsy

Benefits

Motor planning and sequencing problems have been linked to a variety of

developmental, behavioral, and learning challenges. More than a decade of clinical

research on IM demonstrates gains in motor planning and sequencing lead to

improvement in:

Attention and Concentration

Language Processing

Behavior (Aggression and Impulsivity)

Motor Control and Coordination

Academic Performance

* The above information was provided by Cheryl Miller-Scott, OTR/L, the National Director of Clinical

Services, HealthSouth Hospitals