At the beginning of the program, we agree on specific goals for the first 6 months, with clear definitions so progress is concrete, not vague.

If those agreed goals are not met by the end of the 6-month period, and the participation requirements below were met, we refund your program.

To qualify for the guarantee, families need to:

• Submit weekly videos

• Attend weekly meetings (with flexibility to reschedule when life happens)

• Complete at least 75% of the prescribed sessions

These requirements exist so we can see what’s happening and coach accurately, rather than guessing from written updates.

Short videos that show:

• How the activities are being done

• How your child is responding

This gives us clues we can’t get from questionnaires alone (including dynamics at home), and it helps us make small adjustments early, before patterns set in.

We understand schedules change. You can reschedule a week and keep the rhythm.

What matters is staying in consistent contact so we can keep the momentum going with your child's accelerated brain development.

It does not mean doing the program perfectly every day.

For example:

• Completing 3 out of 4 prescribed activities on most days counts.

• Missing a day here and there, including some weekends, is completely okay.

What matters is avoiding long gaps. Missing entire weeks breaks momentum and makes it much harder to sustain the accelerated brain development we’re aiming for.

Hopefully you were able to keep some of the lifestyle changes like the bedtime routine and sensory pairings integrated into daily routines. If that was skipped as well, we might need to adjust the goals.

Autism is not a disease.

Sensory Enrichment aims at helping people feel good, calm, capable and confident to do anything they want without the crippling effects of anxiety, sleep deprivation, sensory overload, chemistry imbalance, etc.

The published clinical data shows that Mendability is effective up to the age of 18.

While we have not conducted an IRB clinical trial on adults, the science of brain plasticity suggests that adults may benefit from the program.

And indeed we have anecdotal examples of adults and seniors who have improved while using Sensory Enrichment Therapy.

This not just for autism. Mendability is a method of helping the brain, which impacts almost everything you do. We have worked with a wide range of conditions, including Alzheimer’s, Depression, Parkinson’s, Cerebral Palsy, ADHD, Addiction, etc.

Mendability is completely non-invasive. It provides simple, natural sensory experiences. It does not involve any pharmaceutical products or any other kind of compound.

However, we often get reports from parents during the first few days of the program who indicate temporary inconveniences. We believe these may be related to therapy’s impact on brain plasticity.

Parents describe these first few days as “emotional storms,” with more moodiness, more irritability. In some rare instances, there have been temporary sleep disruptions, and changes in stool consistency. All of these resolved themselves after a few days.

You do the activities with your special person at home.We will coach you online, or over the phone to make sure you are doing it well.

With our standard coaching plan, you can have as many coaching sessions as you need.

You typically are assigned 4 or 5 activities to do each day. The activities are designed to be done together and in order, as they often build on each other.

In total, enrichment sessions take about 10 minutes each. 

We recommend doing two sessions per day, as well as short sensory pairings during the day to support the repair work that was started during the therapy sessions.

Our clinical data shows that all age groups between 0 and 18 improve at essentially the same rate, although teens appear to progress a bit faster than younger children.

Anecdotally, the adults and seniors who followed our program of sensory enrichment appear to improve at the same rate as our older teens.

The quickest answer is that we complement Occupational Therapy by inducing a state of enhanced plasticity in the brain, which accelerates their work.

There is definitely overlap between Sensory Integration principles and Sensory Enrichment principles.

Both acknowledge that there is a wide variety of sensitivities in how signals from the environment are processed.

One important thing that OT’s have that we don’t is a library of exercises that can soothe the sensory system quickly and help fill a need of a person to be stimulated or to have the stimulation lowered. 

At Mendability, we focus on helping the brain learn how to process the environment more normally so as not to have these needs, but it is very useful to be able to satisfy these short term needs immediately.