Podcasts about interactive metronome

In this episode, we will learn from Karen Jacobs, OT, EdD, OTR, CPE, FAOTA & Alyson D. Stover, MOT, JD, OTR/L, BCP about Occupational Therapy & Artificial Intelligence.Dr. Karen Jacobs is a distinguished occupational therapist with a career spanning over four decades. She is the Associate Dean of Digital Learning and Innovation, the Program Director of the post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy program, and a Clinical Professor of occupational therapy at Boston University's Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. She has worked at Boston University for 41 years. She holds a Doctor of Education (EdD) degree from the University of Massachusetts, a Master's degree in Occupational Therapy from Boston University and a Bachelor's degree from Washington University. She has expertise in various areas, including ergonomics, artificial intelligence, marketing, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. Her passion for enhancing occupational performance has led to extensive research, publications, and presentations worldwide. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation since 1990. Dr. Jacobs has played a pivotal role in advancing backpack safety through AOTA's National Backpack Awareness Day and promoting the recognition of occupational therapy through the creation of Occupational Therapy Global Day of Service. Both are held on World Occupational Therapy Day on October 27. As a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association (FAOTA), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), Dr. Jacobs has been recognized for her outstanding contributions as a scholar, professor, advocate, and mentor, who has inspired countless students and practitioners. Throughout her career, Dr. Jacobs has held leadership positions such as the president and vice president of the American Occupational Therapy Association contributing to the growth and development of occupational therapy at both national and international levels. Some of her awards include the 2005 recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Iceland, the 2011 AOTA Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award, the 2020 AOTA Outstanding Mentor Award and the 2024 AOTA/AOTF Presidents' Commendation in Honor of Wilma L. West.Dr. Alyson Stover is an owner and Occupational Therapist at Capable Kids. She completed her undergraduate degree in Rehabilitation Science and her Master of Occupational Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2008 she returned to school and completed her Juris Doctorate, with a Post-Graduate Certificate in Health Law, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Alyson has practiced in various settings, including schools, early intervention, outpatient pediatrics and acute care and long-term rehabilitation care at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Children's Home of Pittsburgh and Lemieux Family Center. She is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Doctor of Occupational Therapy and affiliated health law faculty for the Center for Bioethics and Health Law University of Pittsburgh. Alyson serves as the President of occupational therapy's national board, AOTA. Alyson's expertise includes the holistic approach to pediatric and family evaluation and intervention, trauma-informed occupational therapy and occupation-based approaches to substance use disorder. She is trained and certified in Therapeutic Listening, Interactive Metronome, and Mental Health First Aid, as well as splinting and taping protocols. Along with working with children, Alyson provides non-lawyer advocacy for children and families who need assistance accessing resources. As a published author, nationally grant-funded research investigator, and subject-matter expert, Alyson provides continuing education for healthcare practitioners, educators, first responders, and the community. Contact & Resources:Karen Jacobs:Email: kjacobs@bu.eduLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenjacobsot/Here is the link to the BU Sargent College podcast, HealthMatters: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthmatters/id1495983952Alyson D. Stover:Email: adstover@pitt.eduLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyson-stover-8a446159/Capable Kids: https://capablekidsrehab.com/teamKorro AI:Enhance your pediatric occupational therapy practice by joining the Korro professional community (ot.korro.ai). Korro innovates occupational therapy through immersive, play-based experiences, combining engagement with efficacy. Our platform leverages personalized data analytics to drive improved outcomes. To learn more about Korro's capabilities, we invite you to:View Korro's informational video: https://vimeo.com/930246779?share=copySchedule a complimentary demonstration: https://outlook.office365.com/book/KorroDemo@korro.ai/As always, I welcome any feedback & ideas from all of you or if you are interested in being a guest on future episodes, please do not hesitate to contact Patricia Motus at transitionsot@gmail.com or DM via Instagram @transitionsotTHANK YOU for LISTENING, FOLLOWING, DOWNLOADING, RATING, REVIEWING & SHARING “The Uncommon OT Series” Podcast with all your OTP friends and colleagues!Full Episodes and Q & A only available at:https://www.wholistic-transitions.com/the-uncommon-ot-seriesSign Up NOW for the Transitions OT Email List to Receive the FREE Updated List of Uncommon OT Practice Settingshttps://www.wholistic-transitions.com/transitionsotFor Non-Traditional OT Practice Mentorship w/ Patricia:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeC3vI5OnK3mLrCXACEex-5ReO8uUVPo1EUXIi8FKO-FCfoEg/viewformBIG THANKS to our sponsors Picmonic & TruelearnUSE DISCOUNT CODE “TransitionsOT” to Score 20% OFF Your Membership Today!Happy Listening Friends!Big OT Love!All views are mine and guests own.

Welcome to today's interview on the Emotional Kids Summit. Chaya is an occupational therapist specializing in self-regulation and school-based therapy and shares her journey and experiences in working with children with disabilities. She discusses her background, which includes working as an occupational therapist, creating her own practice, and becoming certified in the Size Matters handwriting program. Chaya also explains her interest in online business and her pursuit of certification as an ADHD coach.Chaya emphasizes the importance of helping children succeed and providing individualized support. She discusses techniques such as using Interactive Metronome and the Stronger Brains platform to improve cognitive and executive functions in children with ADHD.If you'd like to see the interview on video, join the Companion Course to this series. Here is the link.Inside the Companion Course, we are offering amazing bonus materials. Some of these resources include:Complimentary call with CheriA chance to join the Math DYSConnected book launch teamAccess to The Purple X mini-courseComplimentary ticket to the Introduction to Dysgraphia WebinarComplimentary ticket to Small Group Math InterventionsComplimentary ticket to Saturday MathTwo-part on-demand webinar on dysgraphia and dyscalculia with the option to receive CEUsFree downloadable resourcesPlus, the resources that Ms. Gottesman shared today in this episode. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this Episode, Abbey continues the intervention series, interviewing Sue Zapf, an Interactive Metronome provider who founded Children's Therapy Center, Inc. in Webster, TX. Sue goes through the benefits of IM intervention, her personal experience with it and the different options for customizing this therapy for individual needs. Resources: Interactive Metronome Website: https://www.interactivemetronome.com The Children's Therapy Center, Inc. Website: https://tctci.com Sue's Email: szapf@tctci.com Let's Talk Learning Disabilities Website: https://ltldpodcast.com Contact info for the podcast: letstalklearningdisabilities@gmail.com E-Diagnostic Learning Website: https://ediagnosticlearning.com Social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eDiaglearning/ Twitter: @diaglearning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diagnostic-learning-services/ Instagram: @diaglearning

Fitness maverick, founder of the Institute of Human Performance (IHP), dynamic speaker, sought-after consultant, prolific author. . . for over 30 years Juan Carlos “JC” Santana has been raising the bar in the fitness industry.Website: www.ihpfitness.comSantana has been referred to as “the country's leading practitioner of functional fitness” and personally trained and developed specific programs for all professional sports, youth fitness, fitness for the mature populations, and accelerated rehabilitation. His advanced understanding of bio-mechanics and conditioning has made him the go-to guy for those interested in reaching their optimal performance levels, from individuals to professional sports teams, to fortune 500 companies. His consulting clients and endorsement hail from the full spectrum of government agencies, educational institutions, college and professional sports teams, equipment manufacturers, and fitness facilities.These include Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, VA; U.S. Armed Forces, Corry Station, Sarasota, FL; Boca Raton Police Department; Broward Country (FL) Sheriff's Department; University of Miami; Florida Atlantic University; University of British Columbia; Columbia University, United States Tennis Association; Cincinnati Bengals; New England Patriots; Boston Red Sox; New York Yankees; Miami Marlins; New York Rangers; New York Islanders; Professional Golf Association; Perform Better, Northeast Seminars, Free Motion Fitness, Lifeline, Heart Rate, Interactive Metronome, Gold's Gyms, Town Sports International, 24-hour Fitness, The YMCA, and many more. As an inspiring and motivational speaker, Santana has been a featured speaker at over 300 major conferences in the fitness industry. This prolific speaking tour and publishing endeavors have made Santana one of the top continuing education providers for fitness professionals. He has authored over 60 DVDs and books in the areas of fitness and performance enhancement. Santana is currently the Founder and Director of IHP, his state-of-the-art training facility in Boca Raton, Florida. IHP has been recognized by several awards as one of the top training facilities in the world, and the country's best “core-training” facility. Founded in 2000, IHP provides an unparalleled training environment for elite athletes including World Class Tennis Champions, NFL and MLB players, World Champion Brazilian Jujitsu and Mixed Martial Arts Fighters, numerous NCAA Division I teams, and hundreds of nationally ranked teen hopefuls from a broad cross-section of sports disciplines. Within this exciting training environment, weekend warriors, soccer moms, NSCAR dads, and their children also call IHP their training facility. Santana has been part of the strength and conditioning program for several Florida Atlantic University Sports teams over the last 10 years. He is currently responsible for the men's basketball, men's and women's cross country, track and field, women's volleyball, and the men's and women's swimming strength and conditioning programs. Santana is a member and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the NSCA, and a member and a certified Health Fitness Instructor with the ACSM. He is also a certified Senior Coach and Club Coach Course Instructor with the USA Weightlifting Team, and a Level I coach with the USA Track and Field Association. Santana currently serves on the NSCA Board of Directors and is Sport Specific Conditioning Editor for the NSCA Journal. His previous professional responsibilities have included serving as the Vice President of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Chairman of the NSCA Sport Specific Conference, a member of the NSCA Conference Committee, and the NSCA Florida State Director. As a college professor, he has taught Sports Training Systems and Strength Training at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and is currently involved in several ongoing research projects with FAU and the University of Waterloo in Canada. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University with Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Exercise Science, JC is involved in several ongoing research studies with several universities and on his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology.

In today's Episode, Janice Brown talks with a mother of a child with Sensory Processing Disorder. She talks about the process of getting a diagnosis, learning about the disorder, and finding help for her son.   Conversation Highlights: {01:45} The journey {02:25} What is Sensory Processing Disorder? {06:36} Finding help {16:20} Dietary changes {25:18} Interactive Metronome {30:17} How puberty affected the disorder {37:07} Her son today {45:54} The six Ps.     Resources: Cheryl@cherylboyles.com https://linkedin.com/in/cherylboyles https://facebook.com/group/trulyricherwoman www.cherylboyles.com www.interactivemetronome.com   betterhealthandrehab.com

Wow, I know everyone is really going to gain an abundance of information from this episode. We have some exciting new developments with the release of the Digital SSP option and the new "Pathways" programming- and we talk about them both in this episode so don't miss out!I am so lucky to be accompanied by 3 amazing practitioners from different parts of the USA who have embedded the SSP as a core component of their practice. They share their approach in supporting children, families, and adults, including older adults.Before I provide some highlights of what you will learn from listening to this episode it is with great pleasure that I introduce each of my guests.Doreen Hunt, OTR/L Co-Director of Children's Therapy at WoodinvilleMany of you will be familiar with Doreen Hunt, Occupational Therapist who spoke with me on episode # 8. Doreen was the first practitioner to lead the initial feasibility study when the SSP was first released. Her clinical experience with 100's of clients provided invaluable feedback to Dr Porges and iLs that helped guide SSP implementation in the clinical world. Doreen provides the SSP practitioner Q&A sessions and the new practitioner webinars describing the new Pathways programming addition to the Digital SSP.More information:Doreen Hunt- Children's Therapy of WoodinvilleKate Ortman is Founder and CEO of Brain Train AmericaKate is a leader as one of the world’s most respected providers of multi-modality brain training programs. Kate integrates neurotechnologies to help children, adults and older adults all around the world. Kate, her son Greg, and their company were featured in internationally-respected Popular Science magazine and Kate has presented at international conferences for Integrated Listening Systems, Scientific Learning, and Interactive Metronome. More information:Kate Ortman- Brain Train AmericaMonica Cochran M.Ed.- Owner Learning without BordersMonica is passionate about nurturing the love of learning and has vast experience in helping learners of all ages enjoy learning. Working locally in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area and virtually (online), all over the world, she especially enjoys helping learners who have unique talents and challenges develop their strengths and learn in ways that work for them, so they can become lifelong learners and thrive. Monica provides personalized learning, education therapy, transition planning, and parent coaching. Monica is also trained in DIRfloortime.More information:Monica Cochran- Learning without BordersThis episode flowed so well; Doreen, Kate and Monica share a wealth of information for both practitioners and people who are experiencing challenges and looking for help.Topics covered include:SSP helping families who have opened their hearts and homes to adopt a childThe importance of Bonding and how the SSP facilitates this in couples and familiesSSP helping families connect and regulate- "Harmony in the House!....Doreen"Trauma in learning challengesHow the SSP accelerates the "sense of safety"Learn about..."the Brain not hearing what the ears are hearing.....Kate"Changes in sensory sensitivities and bilateral motor integration skills- the brain is more connected!Improvements in Receptive language skillsKate discusses peak performance and healthy aging- using the Focus system and SSP to improve hearing compared to hearing aidsThe new SSP Intake form for SSP practitioners"Safe Sound" to help decrease stressPolyvagal Theory, SSP and Neuroplasticity

Nathalie Aluisi, M.A., OTR/L, SWC is a pediatric occupational therapist with over 18 years of experience. She specializes in the areas of sensory processing disorders, autism spectrum disorders, social/emotional regulation, executive functioning, social thinking, developmental delays, premature birth, social skills, fine motor/visual motor difficulties, and feeding/oral motor skills. She has advanced training in Sensory Integration theory and practice, and is certified to administer the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test. She has completed courses through AOMT and is an orofacial myofunctional therapist. She has her advanced practice certification in Swallowing Assessment and Intervention (SWC). Mrs. Aluisi is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor. She is certified in the Interactive Metronome and is trained in the Therapeutic Listening Program and iLs Integrative Listening System. She completed the U.S. Department of Education traineeship for the USC School-based Occupational Therapy Training Project. She has served on the advisory board for this School-Based Training Grant. Mrs. Aluisi worked in various school settings running sensory-motor groups incorporating yoga, consulted with teachers and parents and provided individualized treatments, while working closely with professionals using Floor Time (DIR Model). She has been in private practice in West LA, providing clinic based intervention, home and school based services, and consultation. She is currently on the advisory board for the development of an Early Childhood Center. She presents at schools and parent groups on topics relating to sensory integration and children’s motor skill development. Nathalie works closely with parents, teachers, pediatricians, psychologists, speech therapists, physical therapist, and other professionals assisting children. Nathalie received a B.A. in Kinesiology and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.A. in Occupational Therapy from the University of Southern California. She lives in West LA with her husband and three sons. Host Joanna Port is Director at Crestwood Hills Preschool. She has a Masters in Education from Pepperdine University and a Masters in Social Work from USC. For the past 25 years she has worked with families and children, as a therapist, an elementary school teacher, and as a parent consultant. Find out more at parenting portal.com

The attention issues people with ADD have are often due to problems in the cerebellum that keep them from focusing effectively. This seems simple enough, but so often doctors don’t look to the root of the problem (the brain) when treating their patients. In the third episode of a series with Mary Schlesinger, she and the Amens discuss how interactive metronome therapy can help kids and adults with ADD rewire their brains to focus more attentively for longer periods of time. For more information on interactive metronome training, visit https://www.amenclinics.com/services/interactive-metronome-training/

 Have you heard of Interactive Metronome? It is an evidence-based training and assessment tool that has been proven to improve cognition, attention, focus, memory, speech/language, executive functioning, comprehension, and motor and sensory skills. WHOA! Ready to learn more?  Get ready for a fun and informative interview this week! April Christopherson is an Occupational Therapist who has over 25 years of experience working with a variety of populations - home health, private clinics, in-patient rehabs, and more! She currently owns Exploration Kids Therapy, located in Gunnison, CO. She also consults privately from her home in Colorado Springs, CO. Additionally, she is a member of the Adjunct Faculty for Interactive Metronome and Advanced Brain Technologies.  LINKS FOR BLOG Interactive Metronome Be sure to check out the show notes on our blog at  Harkla.Co/Podcast.Brought To You By HarklaThis podcast is brought to you by Harkla.  Our mission at Harkla is to help those with special needs live happy and healthy lives. We accomplish this through high-quality sensory products, child development courses, and The Harkla Sensory Club.Podcast listeners get 10% off their first order at Harkla with the discount code "sensory". Head to Harkla.co/sensory to start shopping now. 

Today Dr. Elana interviews Dr. Stephanie Drummond, a pediatric Occupational Therapist and owner of San Diego Occupational Therapy. She specializes in feeding issues along with sensory processing disorder. If you don’t know how occupational therapy can benefit kids this is an episode you don’t want to miss! Dr. Drummond shares which types of children can benefit from this therapy, how to look for a therapist in your area along with helpful tips that will benefit every child. Interested in enjoying the medicinal benefits of mushrooms via delicious hot cocoa, matcha, or coffee? Receive 15% off your Four Sigmatic purchase by using code WHOLEMAMAS at check out or simply head to foursigmatic.com/wholemamas. Enjoy the listen! You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify. We’d love to hear your thoughts on Instagram or Facebook. Topics Discussed: What is Occupational Therapy (OT) and how can it benefit any child? What signs to look for in your child to know if OT may be needed What is Sensory Processing Disorder? How OT’s can help with feeding issues and picky eating How food pouches, messy eating, and chewing with your mouth open impact feeding The importance of high chair stability while eating Why core strength is so important What is W sitting? Show Notes: San Diego Occupational Therapy SDOT on IG an FB Learn more about Whole Mamas Pregnancy Program Sign up for our Weekly Pregnancy Emails Take the Free Mini-Course at Dr. Elana’s Med School For Moms  Schedule an appointment with Dr. Elana Follow Steph and Elana on Instagram Whole Mamas Podcast Archive Dr. Stephanie Drummond is a pediatric occupational therapist with over twenty-three years of education, training, and experience within the field of pediatric occupational therapy.  Dr. Drummond graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from the University of Southern California.   Dr. Drummond completed intensive sensory integration training through the University of Southern California, and managed the University of Southern California’s Lifestyle Redesign Program and the Faculty Practice.  Dr. Drummond has received certification to administer the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT), Integrative Listening System, Interactive Metronome, Therapeutic Listening, and The Listening Program. She has completed courses in Handwriting Without Tears, First Strokes, Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing, Brain Gym, Floor Time, Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT), Reflex Integration, Zones of Regulation, and the Alert Program. She has lectured and given courses on sensory integration, feeding, handwriting readiness and intervention, and has presented to the Occupational Therapy Association of California. She has extensive training with feeding difficulties and sensory based feeding disorders with infants and children, and worked at Toomey & Associates feeding clinic located at the STAR Center in Denver, CO.  Dr. Drummond holds the CBOT Advanced Practice Certification in Swallowing Assessment, Evaluation or Intervention. Please remember that the views and ideas presented on this podcast are for informational purposes only.  All information, content, and material presented on this podcast is for informational purposes and not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider. Consult with your qualified physician or healthcare provider before starting any diet, supplement regimen, or to determine the appropriateness of the information shared on this podcast, or if you have any questions regarding pregnancy or your prenatal treatment plan.

Mark Eagle is Director and Behavioural Optometrist of Visique Shattky's Hastings and Waipukurau is Dip.Opt., Cert Oc.Pharm., ACC Treatment Provider, Irlen Diagnostician, Cellfield Licencee, Certificated for Interactive Metronome MEMBERSHIPS NZ Association of Optometrists Cornea & Contact Lens Society of NZ Australasian College of Behavioural Optometry College of Optometrists in Vision Development SPECIAL INTERESTS Behavioural Optometry Irlen Syndrome Cellfield Therapy Acquired Brain Injury We were the first Optometry practice in Hastings back in 1906, we have many 'firsts' to our credit, and we continue to be 'first' today. We are the only practice to offer Behavioural Optometry services with a fully equipped Vision Therapy room and state of the art electronic therapies. We are the only Irlen Clinic in Hawkes Bay providing Diagnostic and treatment services for Irlen Syndrome. We are the only Cellfield Intervention Therapists in Hawkes Bay for Reading disabilities. We are the only practice to use the Interactive Metronome to improve neural timing so critical for best brain function. We are the only practice to offer OrthoKeratology to control Myopia. We're the specialists! Website: https://www.visionlink.co.nz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VisionLink-Behavioural-Optometry-191733020885727/ Website: https://www.shattky.co.nz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shattkysoptometrists/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shattkyoptometrists/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eagle2567/ SPONSOR: https://waiket0.pruvitnow.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestagroar/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stagryan/ Twitter https://twitter.com/stagryan Snapchat @stagryan Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WaiKeto/ Blog https://stagryan.com/

Dr. Stephey welcomes Amy Vega, the clinical consultant for Interactive Metronome and a speech pathologist.  Interactive Metronome® (IM) is an evidence-based assessment and training tool that measures & improves Neurotiming, or the synchronization of neural impulses within key brain networks for cognitive, communicative, sensory & motor performance For more information regarding interactive metronome please visit https://www.interactivemetronome.com The Move Look & Listen Podcast is brought to you in part, by Audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/InBound Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. is a full-service eye and vision care provider in Southern California and is a sought-after conference speaker, educator, and passionate advocate for patients diagnosed with dyslexia, specific learning disability, ADHD, autism, and any other qualifying diagnosis for an IEP or 504 plan. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St. Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStephey Website Videos: http://bit.ly/DrStepheyOptometryVideos If interested in producing a podcast of your own, like the The Move Look & Listen Podcast, contact Tim Edwards at Tim@InBoundPodcasting.com Follow Tim Edwards: InBound Podcasting & InBound Films Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inbounddigitalmedia

Jill Gebhard, MS, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist (OT) who currently practices at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI, where she holds the position of Senior Occupational Therapist. Jill's primary areas of concentration in her practice as an OT have been inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation focused on the neurological population. She also has a special interest in stroke, concussion, dementia, Parkinson's, Functional Neurological Disorder and visual deficits. Jill has completed advanced training and holds a specialty certification in low vision through ACVREP, LSVT BIG for Parkinson's, and in the use of the Interactive Metronome. In addition, she has assisted in the development of driving, low vision and cognitive programs and currently serves as an adjunct professor for Mount Mary University.Jill has a bit of an unusual career path in that she began in the field of occupational therapy as an occupational therapy assistant (OTA) and later went back to school to earn a Master's degree in occupational therapy, after which she worked as an occupational therapist. On this episode, she shares about that journey including how her experience and training in OTA versus OT school compared, and we talk about what "the secret sauce" of a successful OT/OTA partnership is. Resources from this episode can be found at http://www.ontheair.us

Jill Gebhard, MS, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist (OT) who currently practices at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI, where she holds the position of Senior Occupational Therapist. Jill's primary areas of concentration in her practice as an OT have been inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation focused on the neurological population. She also has a special interest in stroke, concussion, dementia, Parkinson's, Functional Neurological Disorder and visual deficits. Jill has completed advanced training and holds a specialty certification in low vision through ACVREP, LSVT BIG for Parkinson's, and in the use of the Interactive Metronome. In addition, she has assisted in the development of driving, low vision and cognitive programs and currently serves as an adjunct professor for Mount Mary University.Jill has a bit of an unusual career path in that she began in the field of occupational therapy as an occupational therapy assistant (OTA) and later went back to school to earn a Master's degree in occupational therapy, after which she worked as an occupational therapist. On this episode, she shares about that journey including how her experience and training in OTA versus OT school compared, and we talk about what "the secret sauce" of a successful OT/OTA partnership is. Resources from this episode can be found at http://www.ontheair.us

Timing is everything, a phrase we’re sure that you have all heard a million times. But what you likely don’t think about when you hear this phrase is how fundamental timing is to everything that we do as humans, both spectacular things and simple things. Precise timing is responsible for a stellar athletic performance, or a group of musicians making a perfect melody or it can even be the key to a funny punch line. Timing is responsible for a person being able to walk without falling or speaking without stuttering. Timing is what allows us to focus, process language, keep our balance and have smooth gait, play a sport, and even read. Timing is responsible for the synchronous communication of our brains’ network system that connects cognitive processes and physical movement. Therefore the ability to have accurate Neurotiming is one of the most critical factors in human performance. So how can you iprove your timing? Through revolutionary training in: Athletic enhancement, working memory, processing skills, academic achievement, learning disabilities, and rehabilitation - that's our topic for discussion! Join us to learn more so you, too, can improve the timing in all aspects of your life.

>80-90% of kids on the spectrum can't move, look, and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable-appropriate, and meaningful way. This results in high fear, high anxiety, high distractibility, and will leave your child in a perpetual state of fight or flight or your child will simply adapt and learn how to not pay attention. In this episode, Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides information regarding children on the Autistic spectrum and how to effectively assess the visual system and provide solutions for them to move, look, and listen through their life with greater ease. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStephey Website Videos: http://bit.ly/DrStepheyOptometryVideos The Move Look & Listen Podcast is brought to you in part, by Audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/InBound If interested in producing a podcast of your own, like the Move Look & Listen Podcast, contact Tim Edwards at tim@InBoundPodcasting.com or visit www.InBoundPodcasting.com Transcription Below: Tim Edwards: The Move Look and Listen Podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey is brought to you by audible. Get a free audio book download and a 30 day free trial audible membership www.audibletrial.com/inbound. You'll find over 180,000 titles to choose from, including several books mentioned here in the podcast. Support the Move Look & Listen Podcast by visiting www.audibletrial.com/inbound.  Dr. Stephey: If our two eyes are not working together well as a fast synchronized team. Our internal mapquest continues to be off. It's consistently inconsistent with our ability to judge time and space. Those that don't feel well-grounded, those that have some measure of anxiety, oftentimes it starts in the visual system. If you can't move, look and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable, age-appropriate, meaningful way, you're in a world of hurt. There's a whole world in vision and how it affects brain function that no one's ever shared with you. 20/20 is perceived as a holy grail of going to the eye doctor. Well, I'm here to change that paradigm.  Tim Edwards: Hello and welcome to episode number seven of the Move Look & Listen pocast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network and a patient of Dr. Doug Stephey, who is an optometrist practicing in the southern California area. Now Dr. Stephey. Today's topic, I believe is going to be a gold nugget found by parents of children who happened to land somewhere on the autistic spectrum. Never have I heard how autism and vision are connected, but we're going to discuss that here today.  Dr. Stephey: We're talking about autism and vision because about 80 percent of our brain's neurons are wrapped up in the processing of visual information. Remember, there's about 3 million sensory neurons that feed information to the brain, vision, auditory, taste, touch and smell. And of that 3 million fibers, there's about 30,000 auditory fibers per ear and roughly 1.2 million per eye. A staggering difference, and there's instances clinically.  Dr. Stephey: What I've seen this happen in the office where vision has the capacity to change how you hear, vision has the capacity to change balance and gait and posture. Vision has the capacity to change the way your body feels, your feet on the floor. It changes a term called proprioception or the awareness of your body in space. I've had patients, kids and adults alike where I'll tell them, I'm going to take my index finger and lightly rub it along your forearm. And I want you to tell me how it feels. And if you're a touch sensitive in this manner, it just about freaks you out. It's like walking into a spiderweb when it gives you the heebie jeebies. Who hasn't done that?  Tim Edwards: No. But it is fun to watch people do it.  Dr. Stephey: It sends a shiver through your whole body.  Tim Edwards: It's creepy. Yes.  Dr. Stephey: So people in this manner don't like light touch. And so I'll lightly rub their forearm and I can, sometimes I can see them visually get the shutters. And or they'll get a screwed up look on their face where it's like, oh man, I really don't like that. And then I stop and I say, how does it feel? And they're like, well, I didn't like it, number one. And if they don't spontaneously tell me, I always then ask, is it still itchy? And they're like, yeah, well then itch then and make it go away. So then they'll itch their forearm and I'll say, okay, well you know what, let's put on this pair of glasses with color in prism in them or color or prism or whatever. Whatever the combination is. And I'll say, let's try it again. And more times than not I'll do that when they put the glasses on and they're like, oh, just feels like you're touching me now.  Dr. Stephey: And how about when I stopped? They're like, well, you just stopped. It's not itchy anymore. No, it didn't feel like anything. Tim, it's the craziest stuff.  Tim Edwards: That is something you see at a circus that just seems like hocus pocus. I mean that's like something you'd see at a magic show or something.  Dr. Stephey: Well, it seems like hocus pocus to me as well, but I've learned over the years that this is repeatable outcomes. There's two adult stories to tell you. One is I did this with a wife who was in the exam room with me and her child. And she laughed about how annoyed she was by touch. And essentially she said it's a wonder we have any kids. Because I like it so little.  Tim Edwards: Never heard it put that way before. I like it, so little to be touched. Wow.  Dr. Stephey: So yeah, so I put the glasses on her and she's like, this is crazy. And then I had a different mom do the same thing and she remarked about how she didn't like it and hugs from her husband. And we put the glasses in prism on her and it again, remarkably changed her sense of touch. And then I said, well, you know what I want you to go out of my exam room. I want you to go out to the reception area with my glasses on and I want you to give your husband a hug and come back again and tell me how it was. And so she did. And she's like, oh, it was awesome. And he let go of me before I was ready for him to let go.  Tim Edwards: Dr. Stephey, it sounds like you could add marriage counselor to your repertoire there. Dr. Stephey: I am the love doctor.  Tim Edwards: And she had this and it's immediate. This is something that's immediate. Because they're putting the lenses on right there and boom, there's change instantaneously.  Dr. Stephey: It is the craziest stuff. Now, has anybody written an article about this? No. I don't know if any of my colleagues are even trying stuff like this. You know, I've, I've.  Tim Edwards: How did you discover this? Like how did you, how did you know? Maybe you didn't discover this. Maybe this is just something that that's been happening for years in your industry, but no one's talking about. Or is this something that you just happen to discover while experimenting with lenses with your patients?  Dr. Stephey: You know that's a good question, Tim. And I don't really know how to answer that because I don't think I've had this discussion with my colleagues, so I don't know if they're doing similar stuff. I haven't had anybody spontaneously tell me that they do. So I don't really know. I do know that there's a modest amount of time that I feel like I'm the only person on the planet thinking about these things and putting these things together. And there's very few people that I can really talk to about this because they just don't know.  Dr. Stephey: So if we circle back to the kids with autism, let's recognize a couple of things first of all. It is a behavioral disorder by its very definition. There's no test for autism per se, but you look at a checklist behaviors and the timelines of which they manifest and the consensus is you then fall on the spectrum based upon the checklist that's completed. Arguably and most commonly speech delays. Right? Kids have delayed speech or their nonverbal. It's one of the most easily recognized markers. There's some research that I don't particularly know all that well. That indicates that we might be able to use eye movement and eye contact and gaze of infants as a predictor of autism even before they're were even close to having speech.  Tim Edwards: Yeah, I've heard that many times.  Dr. Stephey: So I think speech becomes one of the most common indicators because if the kid's not talking when they should be or they're talking very little, well, it's obvious that that's the case. But if you have a child who doesn't know how to point and focus their eyes and space easily or effortlessly or accurately or sustainably, that's not obvious.  Dr. Stephey: They might be clumsy. They might not like wearing certain clothes or the tags in their shirts or the seams in their socks. So remember there's normal quote unquote, is a pretty broad spectrum and that's a pretty continuous continuum. And because again, autism and ADD and ADHD are behavioral disorders. They're really driven by a checklist of behaviors. And my whole contention is if you can't move, look and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable, age-appropriate, meaningful way, you're in a world of hurt. So that's what I think in great part is happening with kids on the spectrum. Because so much of our sensory input is tied up in vision and the vision input we're talking about has nothing to do with the ability to see 20/20, which is where most eye exams default to, right? If you can see 20/20, everything's fine and vision has no role to play in your kid's autism.  Dr. Stephey: I could not disagree more. 20/20 is the tiniest little bit of what we're talking about.  Tim Edwards: And that's where most parents, this parent included just stops. Oh, you're 20/20. We're good. Don't need to investigate any further, as far as your vision is concerned.  Dr. Stephey: No absolutely.  Tim Edwards: You know 20/20 is what we're taught. That's what we were told. You get your glasses to fix it or contacts. Let's move on to something else and that's where it should not stop.  Dr. Stephey: This is universally as what is happening and that's why so many kids have trouble recovering function because in most cases I'm going to be so bold as to tell you conservatively 80 to 90 percent, 100 percent seems too boldt. But I can tell you 80 to 90 percent of kids on the spectrum have vision problems that have remained undiagnosed and untreated. And unless your finding somebody who really is taking the time to look at components of nutrition, retained primitive reflexes, something called a millisecond timing clock deficit, motion processing or magnocellular vision.  Dr. Stephey: Eye focusing, eye tracking, eye taming and working memory in executive function and visual-auditory integration, visual-cognitive skills, visual-spatial skills, visual processing speed, your kid's been under assessed, underdiagnosed and undertreated.  Tim Edwards: Now, are you talking about every child or just a child that might have been diagnosed as being somewhere on that spectrum?  Dr. Stephey: Well, the thing that I would just rattle off, they're all skills that we have to possess to function in a relatively normal way. What might be referred as neuro typical behavior. So I would suggest to you that any child who's been diagnosed with dyslexia or a learning disorder or a specific learning disability or reading disorder or have been diagnosed or suspected of having ADD or ADHD or is on the spectrum or has a diagnosis called clumsy childhood disorder, they likely have a vision component that again, has been underassessed, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. And the problem that I see is this is so commonly true that oftentimes these kids get lots of other therapies, speech therapy, occupational therapy, maybe adaptive P.E. through the school district. ABA therapy as a behavioral therapy. But the missing factor in all of that is nobody's looking at the vision piece. And it's tremendously huge.  Tim Edwards: Sounds foundational, again.  Dr. Stephey: It is foundational. And as an extension of that, I go back to something I believe we talked about before. It has to do with our subconscious mind continuously asking ourselves the question, do I feel safe? Do I really feel safe? I'm not sure if I feel safe. If you can't subconsciously answer that question, then you're gonna default to, well, I don't feel safe, which now means that all of your sensory systems are going to be at defcon one. You are on high alert status because your brain is perceiving your environment as one giant eminent, unrelenting threat.  Tim Edwards: Can't even imagine the anxiety going through one's being living like that and how it affects their behavior.  Dr. Stephey: Oh, absolutely. Because at that juncture, and especially when you're a kid, these outcomes now are reflexive in their outcome. Meaning you have no ability to control how you're behaving. So if you're that child and you have a meltdown that is beyond your voluntary control, because what.. Dr. Stephey: Whatever the episodic event was, it triggered you to have a fight or flight response, which is high anxiety, high fear, high distractability and survival at all costs. Which means that if you feel that you're being cornered, there's an expression that a wild animal is the most dangerous when you corner them. If you don't leave them an escape route, they have no choice but to go crazy.  Tim Edwards: For self-defense. Right. Dr. Stephey: Yes, their very survival is based upon them escaping the perceived or real threat. So much of these kids' aggressive behavior is beyond their voluntary control. You can talk to your blue in the face. But until they can regulate their autonomic nervous system and facilitate a more calmer response, you can't talk them off the ledge. It's very challenging because it's beyond their voluntary control. And remember, vision and auditory are our two primary threat detectors.  Dr. Stephey: They are the two sensory systems that we use to gauge a threat at distance in preparation for fight or flight. And you know, the idea of personal space and that your arm's distance is like a personal space bubble.  Tim Edwards: Yeah, no doubt.  Dr. Stephey: I don't know if somebody's written about it, I wouldn't be surprised. But my clinical take on this is if your visual system is operationally functional, you don't need a bigger bubble than arm's distance. Because your ability to perceive a threat at arm's distance gives you the opportunity to punch it away or push it away and then turn and run. Right? Does that make sense?  Tim Edwards: It does. Perfect sense. Yes.  Dr. Stephey: But here's the problem. If you can't see a large volume of space and you can't see it fast, arm's distance isn't good enough for you. You've got a bubble around you that's maybe 20 feet in diameter and any sound within 20 feet or any motion within 20 feet or any target or object visually within 20 feet is going to freak you out.  Dr. Stephey: So now the question becomes, remember separate from 20/20 because all that means you can see a tiny letter at 20 feet on a chart. The volume of space that you can see and the speed with which you see it is paramount to you being able to ask that question, do I feel safe? And is arm's distance as a personal space bubble around me an adequate amount of space? Well it's not, for these kids. One of the things that patients never accused me of is never giving them enough information.  Tim Edwards: That is true. I have a folder over here of information that you've given me, which I love. Thank you.  Dr. Stephey: And so because I read not only within my own discipline but because I read in so many other disciplines, I've got a book list that I put together that I share with parents. I have a computer full of articles that touch on every topic that I'm likely to discuss and assess. In the kind of evaluation that I do.  Dr. Stephey: The primary thing that I want parents to know is that almost without exception, the child has been under assessed and underdiagnosed and undertreated. So whatever they thought their child's life trajectory was going to be, I'm here to point them in a different direction and give them a different trajectory. Because of how the kids have been underassessed and underdiagnosed and undertreated. Typically when someone comes to see me for a first visit, I am going to talk about eye focusing, eye tracking, and eye taming. I'm going to talk about a concept called visual elea scene, which is the inability to look at black and white stripes either comfortably or without having eyestrain or the patterns move or blur or wiggle or you see colors or it's just overwhelming. And that you can't get yourself to look at these stripes. I might initially look at aspects of balance and gait and posture and how those things change with a low plus lenses or colored lenses or prism lenses.  Dr. Stephey: Because if I can notice a behavioral change in visual output or sensory input on the first visit, we have an opportunity right then to change that kid's life. Just by prescribing a pair of glasses, even if they can't see 20/20. So I will oftentimes prescribed glasses in this manner that have nothing to do with seeing 20/20 because I'm interested in how these glasses change the kids' physicality or their motor abilities or their ability to hold the pencil and improve their handwriting skills or make it so that they can tolerate a hug for mom or dad. Or they can play with a sibling and not freak out. Or they can join in other kids on the playground at school and not be overwhelmed by the motion and the sound of their environment. That's the initial part of what we do. When I do have patients come back and we do further testing, we do discuss components of nutrition. We look at a term called retained primitive reflexes. We look at this millisecond timing clock in our brain and how it facilitates our attentional control networks and how it facilitates our brain's ability to integrate different lobes in the brain, so that it improves our cognitive efficiency. We will look at eye focusing, eye tracking, eye taming. We look at working memory. What I want to do is do a comprehensive assessment so that when I come up with a treatment plan, we've got enough data to be able to do it in a logically, developmental hierarchy.  Tim Edwards: So you mentioned treatment plan. What are some examples of a treatment plan beyond lenses now? Something that I want to make sure that our listeners are not confused by. You said if a child comes in or a person comes in with 20/20 vision, you will still prescribe lenses. So we're talking color?  Dr. Stephey: Yes, we're talking color. We could be talking prism or we could be talking low plus lenses are any combination there of.  Tim Edwards: All right, so it doesn't just stop at seeing clearly.  Dr. Stephey: That's right. It doesn't stop at seeing 20/20.  Tim Edwards: So what other type of treatments are there?  Dr. Stephey: Well, typically there's nutritional interventions. Could be inulin fiber to change the gut bacteria. Could be omega-3 fatty acids to change and reduce inflammation in the body and in the brain. It could be zinc and magnesium discussion or calcium or sodium. I think the two most common things though are dealing with the microbiome. Microbiome being in the gut bacteria, and the omega-3 fatty acids. Those two things are monstrously huge.  Tim Edwards: And we'll be discussing omega-3s in our next episode.  Dr. Stephey: The next thing I look at is retained primitive reflexes. Retained primitive reflexes can be simply thought of as software that we're born, within our brain stem. And they're pre-programs, if you will, that facilitate our survival behavior.  Dr. Stephey: It helps us as a baby roll over on her stomach, lift our head, push up our upper body off the floor, get up on all fours, start to crawl, get up on two feet, free our hands to manipulate space around us and begin walking. And all of that motor planning and sequencing, serves a role into a springboard for developing speech and language and eye movement control and working memory and cognitive abilities. So primitive reflexes is something that's been commonly overlooked for a long time. And it can no longer be. It's too critical. I alluded earlier about this millisecond timing clock, the instrument that I use and the company that's been around for 25, 30 years now is called Interactive Metronome and there's no other device like it on the planet that I'm aware of. It is a powerful tool, not only for measuring whether you're timing clock is off, but more importantly to facilitate your brain's ability to retrain it and get it back to a normal timing function.  Tim Edwards: To retrain it. So that seems like a monumental task? Or is it?  Dr. Stephey: No, it's simple. It couldn't be simpler. The interactive metronome instrument was originally created by a music producer and a conductor. And it was designed to look at other musicians timing so that he wanted to produce better sounding music. So if your timing was a little faster, a little slow, he wanted you to be able to change that and feel where you were in that timing output. And he created this instrument to measure that. And it has just turned into this a wonderfully creative tool to change brain function. It is a powerful tool.  Tim Edwards: My goodness. Great Story.  Dr. Stephey: So, so the initial stage of therapy for me typically is nutrition intervention, retained primitive reflexes and this millisecond timing clock. Now I have some kids on the spectrum where the timing clock therapy, it's beyond their current abilities.  Dr. Stephey: So when that's true, I will either incorporate something called the safe and sound program put together by a researcher, neurophysiologist by the name of Stephen Porges, who has written about the Polyvagal Theory of affect, emotions, self-regulation and communication. It's a big deal. So if I, if I find somebody who is highly dysregulated, they don't feel safe and sound in their environment, we will do this program as a, as prep work for the other therapies.  Tim Edwards: To build them up too.  Dr. Stephey: Yeah, the safe and sound program is specifically filtered music where you, you do the listening one hour a day for five consecutive days.  Tim Edwards: That doesn't sound too arduous or painful, that's for sure. No sounds almost kind of fun. ] Dr. Stephey: It is. And it can really change your body's ability to regulate your autonomic nervous system or the part of your body that pushes you to be in fight or flight, or that you're so overwhelmed that you go into shutdown.  Dr. Stephey: So if we do the safe and sound program as a five hour introduction and interactive metronome is still beyond the child's ability. We'll then on incorporate different sound therapy into our treatment model. And this sound therapy is best done with bone conducting headphones and bone conducting headphones are over the ear headphones that have a, a button or a vibrating transducer, if you will, that sits on the top of your cranium. And it vibrates imperceptibly.  Tim Edwards: Wow.  Dr. Stephey: So if I turned the headphones off, but turn the music on, you'd still hear the music. But only by the way the bones in your cranium were vibrating.  Tim Edwards: Now is that how those who are deaf are able to enjoy music?  Dr. Stephey: Yes, it's called, it's called a cochlear implant. And they're getting sound into their head through that cochlear implant, which is vibrating the bones in the cranium.  Tim Edwards: Gotcha. Wow.  Dr. Stephey: And the bone conduction is different than air conduction. It's getting sound in the brain in a different way and in a more powerful tool and it seems to stimulate the stipular system or the inner ear in a way that air conduction can't do. And the reason that's a big deal for me as an optometrist is because the vestibular system and the visual system are intimately linked with each other. So we might see better eye movement control when we do sound therapy. And just like when we developed the visual skills and somebody is able to see faster, that person can use lip movements in order to prime the auditory cortex to change auditory processing outcomes. So the two systems are very interconnected with each other. So just to review, stage one, nutritional discussion, retained primitive reflexes, safe and sound program, if needed. Sound therapy. If they can't handle interactive metronome and if they can handle interactive metronome, I will usually start with that intervention rather than more conventional sound therapy.  Dr. Stephey: And the reason I do that is because interactive metronome involves physical movement in conjunction with this metronome beat and there's something magical about this temporal sequencing or you generating physical output in conjunction with this beat and being given feedback about changing your internal timing clock. So for me, that's stage one. Stage two, we're going to move on to magnocellular vision or motion processing and eye taming, eye focusing and eye tracking. And stage three therapy in my office is then working memory and executive function skills, the ability to multitask, how large of a chunk of information you can hold in your mind, components of processing speed, divided attention, selective attention, sustained attention. And that's stage three. And stage four might move us on into phonological processing and something called rapid naming speed. And then in stage four, I might even weave in some reading therapy at that juncture, either provided through my office and the training that I've had. Or then at that point suggest that the kids get other reading therapy even if it's not through my office.  Dr. Stephey: And that model, Tim, for me, it makes perfect sense. It's based on a developmental model. It's done in a order that we develop in as humans and it is not the model that is happening in practice today.  Tim Edwards: And you're talking about these four phases of therapy.  Dr. Stephey: I'm talking about these four phases of therapy and what I'm really more getting at is I think that the kids on the spectrum should see a developmental optometrist first, not last. And too often, what I see, is I get kids that come to my practice and let's say they've had an IEP through their school district since they were three years of age and maybe I see them at eight or nine or 10, so they've had an IEP for five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years, and never had this kind of a developmental vision exam. So they might've done speech therapy or occupational therapy six, seven, 800 hours, but they never had an exam like this.  Dr. Stephey: I think that parents need to know that this exists and need to seek out and find optometrist like myself that will do this body of work and do it in a comprehensive way. And too often I'll see kids again on the spectrum. Eight, nine, 10, up to 15, 16, 17 years of age who've had hundreds of hours of reading interventions and are still struggling to make any substantial gains in their ability to read and comprehend. And then I find them and they've got a whopping array of all the stuff that we're talking about today and parents have never heard it before.  Tim Edwards: Oh, my. That's a tragedy and that's why we're doing what we're doing.  Dr. Stephey: That's exactly why we're doing what we're doing. We want to. We want to get this word out so people know one, that this exists. Two, what's the depth of what exists and three, that they know if they're getting a comprehensive assessment or not.  Dr. Stephey: It's not enough to go and be told that you've had a vision therapy assessment. If it doesn't include all of these pieces. And that's one of the other reasons that I'm doing this podcasting because I would tell you that vision therapy either seems like it's the best thing since sliced bread. Or it doesn't work at all. And don't waste your time and money. And that really bothers me as an optometrist. Because I know the power of vision therapy when it's done correctly. I know the power of vision therapy when it's done comprehensively. I know the limitations of vision therapy. So if kids need assistive technology or they need an audiological assessment or they need further speech or occupational therapy or they need assistive technology to facilitate their ability to access the curriculum at school, I'm the first one to make those recommendations. And the supportive parent in and looking at other things. But there is just a vacuum of information that parents don't know because medicine hasn't told them that. Nor has the educational community. I'm hoping to fill that void.  Tim Edwards: Thank you for listening to the Move Look & Listen Podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey brought to you by audible. Get a free audio book download and a 30 day free trial of audible membership at audibletrial.com/inbound. You'll find over 180,000 titles to choose from, including books mentioned here in the Move Look & Listen podcasts. 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