Mendability on Discovery Channel
Mendability is a carefully constructed and scientifically driven protocol of sensory exercises called Sensory Enrichment Therapy.
Sensory Enrichment Therapy enables the brain to ameliorate the symptoms of autism.
Sensory Enrichment activities can include placing hands in bowls of water with different temperatures, walking on surfaces with different textures, and other simple activities that are done using household items. There are no medications involved, and it is fully complementary with standard autism care.
Mendability further personalizes the therapy to customize the exercises based on the unique challenges facing each child.
Mendability co-founder, Eyal Aronoff, is also a co-founder of Quest Software (now a Dell company) and Fuel Freedom Foundation. He found Sensory Enrichment Therapy to work on his daughter, and it helped her overcome her autism. Today she functions as a normal, healthy teenager. Eyal put research efforts behind the therapy to make it available to other families. Now Mendability for Autism will assist families in overcoming the symptoms and challenges of autism.
“Mendability is providing a practical, low-cost and effective solution to one of the nation’s biggest problems, autism. This revolutionary new therapy uses Sensory Enrichment to activate innate brain plasticity, easing the symptoms of autism,” said Eyal Aronoff. “We simplified a complicated protocol of prescribed sensory stimulations down to a set of games that could be practiced at home for a few minutes, two or three times a day. Since there is no medication involved, there is very little risk.”
Mendability is based on clinically proven results.
“Following six months of therapy, 69 percent of parents in the enrichment group reported improvement in their child’s overall autism symptoms. They also improved their scores on autism spectrum tests, and on intellectual function tests,” said Michael Leon, professor at University of California, Irvine, who administered the clinical trial. In this episode, Innovations goes behind-the-scenes to explore how Mendability began, the clinical data behind the revolutionary new therapy, and an overview on how this therapy can be implemented in the home.
Guests in the program include Dr. Michael Leon of UCI, Lisa Ackerman of T.A.C.A. and Dr. Suzanne Reyes who explains how Mendability is helping her 18 year old daughter Calida.
About Mendability
Mendability is the inventor of Sensory Enrichment Therapy for autism. Sensory Enrichment Therapy is a scientifically driven treatment that uses sensory experiences to enable the brain to overcome the symptoms of autism. Mendability is a low-cost, structured treatment protocol that parents and caregivers can administer at home without the use of medications.
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