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[stockie_text] What is Autism Today? The Autism Today Channel is for you, about you and by you. It is where people to go find the specific help they need for autism and neurodiversity and it is the place where businesses, products and services go to find higher success rates and improved customer retention. This is where you can find a Spectrum of Solutions for your unique situation and we bring the experts, experiences and answers to YOU for FREE. [/stockie_text]

[stockie_text] The Advanced Brain Technologies Series Advanced Brain Technologies has been researching and developing sound-based cognitive training programs since 1998. Its founder and his family have more than 70 years of clinical experience in the field of human brain development that have been applied to the work they do and the products they provide. Headquartered in Centerville, Utah, their network of professional providers spans six continents. Helping countless families and making a difference in thousands of lives around the world, the Listening Program is music for training your brain to help strengthen neurological pathways for better learning, communicating, and processing information. [/stockie_text][stockie_text text_color="#ffffff"] Whether you have a child with special needs or who is on the autism spectrum, struggling with daily stressors, or need rehabilitation after a brain injury, Advanced Brain Technologies is definitely something worth checking out.   [/stockie_text][stockie_text] MANDY DOMAN – ADVANCED BRAINTECHNOLOGIES, THE LISTENING PROGRAM Mandy Doman Mandy Doman is the Chief Operating Officer at Advanced Brain Technologies and is a leading expert in music listening therapy with over twenty years of experience. Passionate about helping children and adults live their best lives, Mandy focuses on finding brain-based solutions to support their therapeutic or educational interventions and overall health and wellness. [/stockie_text] [stockie_text] Mandy is a specialist in developing resources, training, and coaching for an international network of providers who use The Listening Program in hospitals, schools, clinics, private practices, and homes. When she’s not improving lives through music, she spends her free time with her husband, three sons, family and friends. Even with all that and being a dedicated homeschool mom, you will find her up before the sun rises reading, meditating, writing, and working out. In this episode, Mandy tells us about her start in the music listening therapy field, what The Listening Program is and how it works. We discuss the bone conduction technology they use and talk about how it has helped people all over the world. Be sure to watch our video to learn more about Advanced Brain Technology and if The Listening Program might help improve your life or the life of someone you know. And tune in for her next episode that goes into detail about how to successfully use The Listening Program. Stay tuned, stay happy and stay kind. [/stockie_text]VIEW TRANSCRIPT[stockie_text] TRANSCRIPT Advanced Brain Technologies Episode 1: Mandy Doman Sat, May 28,2022 12:09AM • 21:38‍ SUMMARY KEYWORDS: music, sound, program, listening, therapists, support, clinicians, headphones, bone conduction, world, played, families, child, work, people, french horn, engaged, autism, dancing, practitioners‍ SPEAKERS Vincent Dela Luna, Karen Simmons, Mandy Doman Vincent Dela Luna  00:15 Welcome to Mandy Doman from Advanced Brain Technologies, who is using music and sound with bone conduction to help people with autism, and neurodiversity. Hi, Mandy. Welcome. Mandy Doman  00:30 Thank you. Vincent Dela Luna  00:30 Can you tell us a little bit about how you got involved with autism and neurodiversity? Mandy Doman  00:35 Ab solutely. Well, I’ve been in the field for about 20 years and working with practitioners. So a number of occupational therapists speech and language pathologist doctors. And so in the very beginning, we work directly with these clinicians and educators as well, to support what they’re doing, especially for children with special needs. And primarily autism. There’s a lot of research that has been done on how music can be used to calm center and connect a child with autism to the world around them. And we start to see that in their day to day interactions, ability to complete their therapies in a more meaningful way. And so in the very beginning, we just wanted to find a natural way to have the ability to help these kids in their home and supported by a clinician, and it was pretty pro found to see those impact, the impact that it could have on anything from their ability to start speaking to their ability to process the world around them. And you know, really, so that was how we began in the in the field. But before that, my husband is actually the founder of Advanced Brain Technologies. And he’s a third generation in a family of neuro developmentalists. So his family work, they made tremendous contributions to the understanding of child development, and what it looks like to have a child who is neurologically organized. And then the impact that sound and music can have on that individual’s performance day to day in their life. Karen Simmons  02:24 Wow. That’s amazing. It is really, really important. Music is plays such a big part in people’s lives that have autism. Vincent Dela Luna  02:36 Yeah, my, my daughter, as you know, I’ve got two kids on the spectrum. My daughter is 10 and a half nonspeaking. Kind of aggressive behaviorally with with everybody except me. But it’s because I communicate with almost purely with music. So all her instructions all getting her prepped for things, involves a song, a little sing along, and she knows the words to all the songs. And when we start doing it and if I if I’m too slow in a song, she started saying the words. So I know that music has an impact. And I know they’re connected. And it’s all I’ve also noticed how certain sounds calm her, and certain sounds within the same song trigger her. And she and she can get aggressive like I told you, we were just visiting the symphony on the weekend. And she would listen and all of a sudden you would see her just calm and relax and smiling. And then certain sounds in the orchestra when they ‘replayed would agitate her, you know? And then she started rocking and shaking and squeezing my arm. And then she’d calm down again depending on on the music being played. How did how did you use Advanced Brain Technologies to use sound and what what types of music and sound are used in the in your process? Mandy Doman

[stockie_text] The zPods Series Up to 90% of children with autism have a sensory processing disorder, which means that they are very sensitive to their surroundings. Many of these children find cozy nooks to hide out in when they become overly distraught. In fact, architects of autism-friendly environments often incorporate a nook into their design so that these children have an “escape space” in which to decompress. Though the relationship with sensory processing disorder is not fully understood, it makes sense that up to 80% of children with autism also have a chronic sleep disorder. Factors that help them to sleep better include lighting, white noise, and a removal of distractions from their sleep environment. zPods give these children a place of their own without distractions where they can feel safe while they sleep. [/stockie_text][stockie_text] ZPODS EPISODE 1: GEORGE BAILEY Sleep. Often taken for granted until it’s not available. Then it becomes the most important thing in the world. I should know. My daughter has a sleep disorder and can go months without sleeping at night. When you have two disabled children and one is up all night and the other is up all day and you add work on top of that, lack of sleep will slowly drive you bonkers. While sleep is vital to the development and growth of your children, as parents, we know that if they don’t sleep… we don’t sleep. So a child’s sleep helps not only the child, but more than likely, every person in the house hold as well. [/stockie_text] [stockie_text] It is because of this that we are excited to be interviewing George Bailey, who has created a sensory controlled space on top of a bed to try and help individuals experiencing sleep disorders. Constantly evolving, his zPods have a new made-in-the-USA version coming out this summer. They have turned out to be a calming personal space for many people already. Tune in to this episode as George gives us an insider’s look at the zPod and tells us what it’s about and how it helps. Keep checking in as zPods and the Autism Today Foundation partners with locations across North America where our viewers might be able to experience the beds themselves before purchasing it so that they can invest after they know it engages their child. And as a bonus, more and more local governments and insurance companies are financially supporting the purchase of zPods. We’ll keep updating our website as news of this develops. Stay tuned, stay happy and stay kind! [/stockie_text]VIEW TRANSCRIPT[stockie_text] TRANSCRIPT zPods Episode 1: George Bailey Mon, May 30,2022 8:31PM • 30:40‍ SUMMARY KEYWORDS sleep, bed, autism, parents, night, people, son, children, excited, kids, china, door, talk, big, ideas, sleeping, george bailey, autistic, soothing, stackable SPEAKERS Nickie – Mother of Mykah, zKid – Mykah, zKid – Judan, zKid – Natalie, Karen Simmons, Jeff Wade, Vincent Dela Luna, Christina – Mother of Joseph, George Bailey, zKid – Joseph, Leah – Mother of Natalie‍ zKid – Mykah  00:17 My zPod it helps me sleep. zKid – Natalie  00:20 It’s easier for an autistic person to sleep in there. zKid – Judan  00:23 A zPodhelps me sleep better. Jeff Wade  00:25 So zPod allows for complete control of your sleep environment. George Bailey  00:30 The big idea is how do we help people sleep better. I’m George Bailey and I’m the president of zPods. Jeff Wade  00:35 My name is Jeff Wade, and I am one of the cofounders of zPods. zKid – Natalie  00:39 I like that I can close the zPod, and that it’s around me so nothing can come in there. Nickie – Mother of Mykah  00:44 Mykah is ten and she was stayin up for like three days at a time. We tried weighted blankets, melatonin and we’ve tried asleep study because we thought she has sleep apnea. My experience with the zPod has been wonderful. Mykah’s sleep has changed tremendously. I’m getting more sleep because she’s getting sleep. Leah – Mother of Natalie  01:05 Because of her autism diagnosis and herschizophrenia diagnosis, she was up all night zKid – Natalie  01:11 and I wasn’t doing well in school. I used to sleep in the closet. Leah – Mother of Natalie  01:15 That was the only place that she was feeling comfortable at the time.  Since she started with the zPod, her sleeping has improved. The first night she was in bed on time and a sleep. Jeff Wade  01:27 My son Judan… he’s neurotypical, it takes him two hours to get to bed at night. But with zPod, it’s completely transformed his sleeping George Bailey  01:37 with Joseph, he’s autistic. He’s very high energy, high anxiety, Joseph and just bounced around his room all the time at night, Joseph has been using his bed now for almost two years, it has become like a real nook for him just a place where he just feels restored, Christina – Mother of Joseph  01:54 helped him decompress helped him wind down zKid – Joseph  01:56 reading in my zPod, I play games in my zPod ‍ George Bailey  02:00 now that he’s sleeping better, I think that all of us are sleeping better. We’ve taken all of the suggestions that we’ve received from parents about how we can improve this technology. And we’ve put together a really exciting new bed that we’re going to be releasing onto the market. Jeff Wade  02:19 So we’ve partnered with a local manufacturer who’s invested into zPod, Christina – Mother of Joseph  02:23 we’ve got speakers in the new zPods that will allow you to play nature tracks or meditation tracks, George Bailey  02:29 we’re going to be creating what we call a sleep scaping where the sleep environment changes according to your individual preference. What we want to do is we want to give a name to sleep that gets kids excited to do this thing that is critical to their health zKid – Joseph  02:46 I could