Focus Through Fun
Skills Training for Children with ADHD, Autism, and Other Learning Challenges
- Covered by insurance
- OAP approved
We train children to focus, learn, and self-regulate using movement, music, feedback technology, and a personal coach for each child.
Worried about your unfocused, ADHD, autistic, dyslexic or struggling child?
Is your child struggling with focus, learning or big feelings?
You are not alone. Many parents see their child having so much potential yet falling behind because focus, learning, or self-regulation is hard for them. Parents reach out to their physician, they get assessments, they try behavioural training, school supports and medication, yet with all of that, for some children the gap continues to widen.
Here’s where Maxi Mind Learning can help, by providing the focus and skills training that these other interventions are missing. Join the thousands of Southern Ontario families that have seen the benefits for themselves.
Kids don’t just strengthen their focus. They gain the confidence that comes from knowing they can focus and succeed. And the best part? They actually enjoy it.
- 15+years in business
- 2,000+children served
- 120,000+sessions completed
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What Maxi Mind Learning Believes
Our story began with a parent’s love for their child. Dr. Arnie Gotfryd watched his son struggle to focus in school and wanted to help. That journey resulted in the Maxi Mind program, which helps children focus through fun. We believe:
- Focus is a skill that can be learned
- Working with the body can improve the brain
- Making it fun multiplies the results
- Great coaching builds confidence
- Little successes bring big successes
Who We Help
We help children who need to strengthen a wide range of skills including focus, memory, time management, reading, writing, arithmetic, self-regulation, communication and social skills.
Support for Children with ADHD
Our activity-based ADHD program, with or without medication.
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Support for Autistic Children
Listening, movement and focus practice that can complement ABA, OT or speech therapy.
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Questions Parents Ask
What is Maxi Mind Learning?
Maxi Mind Learning is a skills-training program in Southern Ontario for children who find focus, learning, or self-regulation hard. Our mission is to help children build focus and attention as skills they can use at school and at home, with a personal coach who makes the practice encouraging and fun. We believe every child deserves to feel capable, and every parent deserves a clear, supportive next step.
Who is Maxi Mind for?
Maxi Mind is designed primarily for children 6 and up who have trouble with attention, learning, and self-regulation. Some have a diagnosis such as ADHD, Autism or Dyslexia; others are still waiting for an assessment or don’t have one. A free consultation helps us decide together whether the program is a good fit for your child.
Can Maxi Mind be used alongside ADHD medication?
Yes. Many families use Maxi Mind with medication, and some use it without. For some children the side effects outweigh the benefits, and that call belongs with the family and the doctor. Focus-and-skills training can still be useful in any case. Maxi Mind does not advise on starting, stopping or changing medication.
Where do sessions take place?
At a coach’s home-office, not in a clinic and not at your home. Maxi Mind has more than 20 service locations in the GTA, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, and Ottawa. Head office is in Vaughan, but sessions don’t take place there.
How much does Maxi Mind cost?
$150 a session, 50 minutes, no HST. Courses are 24, 40, or 60 sessions, billed month by month, in advance. You can cancel any time after 5 sessions. Unused sessions are refunded. Many families recover some or all of the cost through extended health benefits under psychological services, Ontario Autism Program funding under mental health, or the medical expense tax credit. Medical receipts go out monthly.
Has the school suggested an assessment? Not sure what to do next?
That’s a very common moment for parents, and it’s okay to feel unsure. A good first step is to talk with your family doctor or paediatrician, who can arrange an assessment if needed. In the meantime, a few quick questions can help you describe the behaviours you’re seeing.
Our 3-minute screening quiz shows how your child’s behaviours compare with common ADHD screening criteria. It is not a diagnosis, but it can help you prepare for a conversation with your doctor or your child’s school. Take the Free ADHD Quiz.
How is Maxi Mind different from tutoring or ABA therapy?
Tutoring re-teaches school content, and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) teaches specific skills and behaviours through structured, step-by-step practice. Maxi Mind does something different: coached practice of the underlying skills — attention, self-regulation, listening and coordination — through movement, music and focus games. Many families combine approaches, and Maxi Mind can sit alongside tutoring, ABA, OT or speech therapy rather than replace them.
For children on the autism spectrum, our sessions work “through the body to the brain”: listening and movement activities designed to support sensory processing, motor skills, focus and communication.
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As a health professional and counselor who works with children but more importantly as a mother with two daughters and a son who went through your program, I give my full endorsement to the Maxi Mind program.
Ora Stebben RHN, NNCP Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Maxi Mind Mother