If a child at the Enrico Fermi School in Yonkers is found to have attention deficit disorder, parents can choose an unusual alternative to medication: neurofeedback, a computerized biofeedback system that some say strengthens the brain.
Linda Vergara, the school’s principal, said she decided to try the approach when doctors diagnosed the disorder in her son in 1992. ”They told me I needed to give him something to calm him down,” she said.
Ms. Vergara decided not to give her son Ritalin, the drug frequently used to treat the ailment, and instead took him to see Dr. Mary Jo Sabo, a psychologist in Suffern, N.Y., to try neurofeedback.
