A half-hour south of Baltimore, in a suburban office park, Kate Ortman is holding an open house. She’s the proprietor of Brain Training of Maryland, a facility specializing in cognitive training programs aimed at one goal: improving brain function. About three-dozen curious visitors have shown up on this Sunday in late October. One of the employees giving demos is Kate’s son, Greg, a soft-spoken 27-year-old. People watch colored bars on a computer screen blink as he
A half-hour south of Baltimore, in a suburban office park, Kate Ortman is holding an open house. She’s the proprietor of Brain Training of Maryland, a facility specializing in cognitive training programs aimed at one goal: improving brain function. About three-dozen curious visitors have shown up on this Sunday in late October. One of the employees giving demos is Kate’s son, Greg, a soft-spoken 27-year-old. People watch colored bars on a computer screen blink as he claps in time to a program called Interactive Metronome, pausing to explain how it had helped him.
Kate, a welcoming, chipper woman, used to be a life coach for young adults with attention-deficit disorder. She switched careers after Greg’s older brother, Daniel, needed help recovering from a nine-hour brain surgery to relieve internal pressure caused by a congenital defect. She had learned online about cognitive exercises to improve activity in the cerebellum, the region affected by the operation. But the nearest providers for any of the therapies were an hour away, and Daniel would experience intense migraines after just 30 minutes in the car. So Kate took classes to become certified in two key programs: Interactive Metronome and Integrated Listening Systems. Over time, her dining-room-table practice expanded into a full-fledged business with office space, where she and her staff could attend to clients with brain impairments.
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