Autism Spectrum Support

Common Challenges on the Autism Spectrum

Autism affects each individual differently, but families often describe challenges connected to how the brain filters and integrates sensory input from the environment:

• Over- or under-responsiveness to sound, light, touch, or movement
• Difficulty transitioning between activities or environments
• Trouble with balance, coordination, or motor planning
• Difficulty with social communication and engagement
• Sleep disturbances
• Heightened frustration when overwhelmed by sensory input

How MST™ Works With the Brain

Multisensory processing — the brain's ability to filter, modulate, and integrate input from multiple senses at once — is one of the earliest skills the brain learns, typically developing before age three. MST™ helps the brain learn or relearn multi-sensory filtering. It simultaneously engages prescribed frequencies of colored light, vestibular (motion) stimulation, auditory stimulation, and somatosensory input, and is designed to support this foundational sensory processing skill, which many families feel underlies later progress in other therapies (occupational, speech, ABA, and classroom learning).

The typical program is a 12-day in-office intensive (two 30-minute sessions per day), followed by an 18-day at-home continuation. Most families notice early changes before the program is complete, though the full effect is typically not apparent until around 90 days.

MST™ is not a stand-alone intervention. It is intended as an adjunct to a person’s overall care, and it is designed to provide a foundation for higher-level interventions (such as classroom instruction, speech, cognitive or occupational therapy, and tutoring) that presume a solid base of sensory processing. It works from the bottom up, at the subcortical level, on how the brain takes in input rather than on the output a person is asked to produce. These statements have not been evaluated by any regulatory authority and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.