Dore Method Comparison

It used to be the case that a Dore client would travel to a center, receive testing and take home equipment and an exercise plan. They would return in approximately 6 weeks for  follow up testing and the next set of exercises to take home. This pattern would continue for 12 to 15 months. The program's benefits come from the daily exercises performed at home. The cost was approximately $4500US (£2390). The latest version of the Dore program seems to rely on a computer generated activity lists and in some cases, no balance challenge at all. The activities in both the historic and current models of both the Learning Breakthrough Program and the Dore Program are done in one's own home.

The Learning Breakthrough Program is structured and organized into daily sessions for ease of use by the average parent, teacher or clinician (occupational therapists, optometrists, audiologists, speech therapists, psychologists, physicians). The program is securely ordered on this website and delivered to your home, school or clinic via FEDEX or US Mail. The program comes complete with detailed instructions, benchmarking tests, all equipment and a work along DVD for ease of use. The program's benefits come from the daily exercises performed at home.

Learning Breakthrough participants all perform the same activities. The holistic nature of the Learning Breakthrough Program involves all the various senses and processes behind learning and performance. Our various senses such as visual, motor, auditory and balance are connected. The more they are "exercised" together the more "integrated" they become and the better we function. The program enables individual users to progress at their own rates to ever increasing challenge levels as only LBP's unique and precise balance board can. Keeping each user moving along the edge of their individual balance challenge envelope is how individual progress is really made with vestibular training and how higher levels of neural transmission are ultimately achieved.

(#1) Below you can see the reference made regarding the Learning Breakthrough Program^TM (Belgau & Belgau, 1982) as the example given as the basis for the exercises in the Dore Program (at Dore Acheivement^TM or DDAT^TM Centers).

 

Dr. Belgau, the creator of the Learning Breakthrough Program, has often been asked questions such as "my child has ADHD or Dyslexia or another specific condition, which exercises should be used?" His answer has always been that it is through the repetition of the complete range of LBP exercises that unification of vital neural pathways is maximized and that this is how brain processing improvement occurs. We know the sequence, position, posture, number of repetitions and specific activity designs themselves cause positive changes in the brain. This is not to say that other sequencing and sensory-motor activities will not work. We know from decades of use that the precision of the balance equipment and the activities in the Learning Breakthrough Program produce powerful changes in areas of cognitive, physical and attention performance and ability.

If one performs the Dore Program exercises every day at home, they may well experience positive changes. Our confidence comes from the fact that the Dore Program was developed based on the principles behind the Learning Breakthrough Program.

There is no indication that specific sensory activities deliver specific types of results for specific disabilities. Our belief is not that a certain type of movement should vary from person to person, but the specific level of balance challenge should be. By calibrating and systematically increasing the brain's vestibular challenge, each user's neural transmission is greatly improved and processing centers are "rewired" for better cognitive function. It is Learning Breakthrough's position that it is through the diligent use of superior balance tools and the range of activities, developed by an acknowledged leader in the professional community and refined over 30 years, that powerful benefits accrue to the user.

The Learning Breakthrough regimen is beneficial for most anyone who uses it properly and for a long enough period of time. It is a low risk, cost effective way to bring balance and sensory development benefits to clients in both clinic and home settings and includes free phone and email support.