Welcome to Brain Health D.C.—a place where families come not only to find answers, but to build strong foundations. If you're a parent, caregiver, or educator concerned about a child’s development, behavior, or emotional well-being—or simply passionate about supporting their potential—you’re in the right place.

Childhood is a season of extraordinary neurological growth. In fact, from birth to age 7, your child’s brain is forming more than 1 million new neural connections every second. During this time—and continuing through adolescence—the nervous system is laying down the groundwork for focus, coordination, emotional regulation, learning, sleep, speech, and social connection. These early years are not just about reaching milestones; they’re about shaping the brain’s ability to adapt and thrive for a lifetime.

In today’s world, more and more children are experiencing challenges that can be traced back to subtle (and sometimes silent) neurological imbalances. You may have noticed:

• Delays in motor or speech development
• Difficulty managing emotions or transitions
• Heightened sensitivity to sound, touch, or light
• Learning struggles, attention issues, or clumsiness
• Difficulty with sleep, digestion, or overall regulation

These signs are more common than you might think—and they are not your fault. Our environment, food systems, birthing interventions, technology exposure, and even chronic stress all affect how our children's brains grow and organize themselves. The good news? You can support and protect your child’s brain development early—before struggles become diagnoses.

At Brain Health D.C., we believe in preventative brain health care—an empowering, proactive approach to helping children grow into their healthiest, most resilient selves. This isn’t just about preventing illness; it’s about optimizing function. It's about fine-tuning how the brain and body communicate, how sensory systems integrate, and how your child can engage with the world around them with more ease, confidence, and joy.

Why Preventative Brain Health Matters for Children

Children’s brains are not just miniature versions of adult brains—they are dynamic, rapidly evolving ecosystems. Every experience, movement, sound, and interaction shapes the architecture of their developing nervous system. In the early years, their brains are forming billions of neural connections every single day. This remarkable window of growth also brings an incredible opportunity: to identify challenges before they become deeply rooted—and to strengthen the systems that support learning, behavior, and emotional health for years to come.

Preventative brain health care is about so much more than avoiding illness. It’s about recognizing how early patterns in movement, sensory processing, and stress response can ripple into attention, focus, academic performance, social engagement, and resilience. Many of the children we see at Brain Health D.C. don’t have a diagnosis—but they’re showing early signs that something is off: maybe they’re always fidgety, unusually sensitive, clumsy, frustrated by simple tasks, or struggling to concentrate.

Preventative care may reduce the risk of:

• Attention & Focus Issues: like distractibility, hyperactivity, and executive function delays
• Learning Delays: including reading, speech, memory, or comprehension struggles
• Behavioral Challenges: such as outbursts, oppositional behaviors, or social difficulty
• Emotional Dysregulation: persistent anxiety, anger, sadness, or mood swings
• Sensory Integration Problems: hypersensitivity to noise, clothing, food textures, or crowds

But just as importantly, it builds strengths—like:

• Neuroplasticity: the brain’s ability to change and adapt through experience
• Emotional Intelligence: recognizing and responding to feelings in a healthy way
• Resilience: the capacity to recover from stress, change, or challenge

Pediatric Brain Screening & Functional Neurology Evaluation

At Brain Health D.C., we approach pediatric care with a deep respect for the uniqueness of every child. No two brains are the same—and neither are their stories, challenges, or strengths. That’s why our Pediatric Brain Screening and Functional Neurology Evaluation is as thorough as it is gentle, designed to uncover the subtle imbalances that may be affecting your child’s development, behavior, or well-being.

Here’s what a typical neurodevelopmental evaluation may include:

Comprehensive Health and Developmental History

We begin by learning your child’s full story. From prenatal and birth history to developmental milestones and behavioral observations, we gather the context that helps us understand how their brain has grown—and where it might need support.

Reflex Testing & Milestone Tracking

Primitive reflexes, like the Moro or ATNR, are essential in early development—but when they fail to integrate properly, they can interfere with motor control, focus, and emotional regulation. We assess which reflexes may still be active and how they’re impacting your child’s function.

Sensory-Motor Integration Evaluation

Is your child able to smoothly process the world around them? We examine how well their brain is interpreting sensory input (touch, movement, vision, sound) and producing coordinated, appropriate motor output in response.

Eye Movement & Visual Tracking (RightEye)

Using RightEye, a non-invasive eye-tracking tool, we assess visual reflexes and eye movement control—critical for reading, coordination, and balance. Issues here often go undetected in standard vision screenings.

Balance and Coordination Testing (BTracks, Senaptec)

We use advanced tools to assess postural control, reaction time, depth perception, and spatial awareness—all foundational for everything from handwriting to sports to emotional regulation.

HRV or Brain-Based Stress Assessment

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and other metrics give us insight into how well your child’s nervous system is managing stress. A dysregulated system may show up as anxiety, fatigue, behavioral shifts, or immune challenges.

Postural, Gait, and Cranial Nerve Screening

We observe how your child walks, stands, and holds themselves. Subtle shifts in posture or movement can indicate deeper imbalances in brain-body communication. Cranial nerve function is also checked to assess sensory and motor integrity.

Therapies for Developing Brains

Once we understand how your child’s brain is functioning, the next step is gentle, targeted intervention. At Brain Health D.C., our therapies are carefully chosen to support the growing, adaptive, and incredibly resilient brains of children. Each therapy is non-invasive, customized, and designed to stimulate the areas of the brain that need support—whether it's focus, coordination, emotional regulation, or sensory processing.

Here are some of the brain-based therapies we offer:

Primitive Reflex Integration

Unintegrated reflexes—like the Moro (startle), ATNR, or STNR—can interfere with posture, balance, attention, and self-regulation. We use gentle movements, positioning, and repetition to help the brain “complete” these early stages of development, creating space for higher learning and emotional control.

Vestibular and Balance Therapy

The vestibular system (inner ear) is one of the first systems to develop in utero and is foundational to brain development. Through structured activities that stimulate head movement, spatial orientation, and equilibrium, we help improve coordination, focus, and calming responses.

Visual-Motor Training

Many children with learning or behavioral struggles also have underlying visual processing challenges—even if they have “perfect” vision. We use eye-tracking exercises, convergence training, and visual perception tasks to enhance how the eyes and brain work together.

Rhythm and Timing Therapy

Rhythm-based therapy (like metronome training) can improve a child’s attention span, impulse control, and executive function by synchronizing neural pathways. Children love these interactive exercises that build not just coordination, but also cognitive control.

Sensory Integration Techniques

We help kids who are over- or under-responsive to sensory input (light, touch, sound, texture, movement). Activities are designed to “rewire” the brain’s response to the sensory world, leading to better focus, reduced meltdowns, and improved comfort in social and learning environments.

BrainTap for Calming the Nervous System

Using light and sound therapy combined with guided meditation, BrainTap helps reset the stress response and encourages deep relaxation. It’s ideal for anxious, overwhelmed, or sleep-challenged children, helping them move from fight-or-flight into rest-and-digest mode.

Cranial Chiropractic Adjustments

Gentle cranial and spinal adjustments can relieve pressure on the nervous system and restore proper alignment and fluid motion in the head and spine. Especially helpful for children born with birth trauma, flat spots, torticollis, or chronic ear infections.

A Stronger Start, A Healthier Future

Your child’s brain is their control center for everything—how they think, move, learn, feel, and connect with the world. When it’s supported and functioning well, the effects are lifelong. Healthy brain development in childhood sets the stage for academic success, emotional intelligence, strong relationships, physical coordination, and resilience under stress. These aren’t just developmental goals—they are the very foundation for a joyful, confident, and thriving life.

At Brain Health D.C., we believe that every child deserves the best possible start. That’s why our preventative care is focused on unlocking each child’s unique potential—not waiting for problems to appear, but nurturing strengths, identifying hidden imbalances, and guiding development with compassion and science.

You don’t need to wait for a diagnosis. You don’t need to wait for your child to “grow out of it.” Early support makes all the difference. And we’re here to walk beside you, empower you, and equip your child with tools that will serve them for a lifetime.

Ready to give your child the strongest possible start?

Book a pediatric neuro screening with Dr. Nisreen Tayebjee today:
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