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NeuroDevelopmental Movement® and sensory therapies can have a profound and life-changing impact on children with sensory, regulation, motor, academic, social, and physical challenges. NDM® can have a profound impact on early life trauma and has been used in adults to significantly improve outcomes following strokes and TBI.   But if you have looked into the work and […]

NDM® Fee Schedule Our initial Functional NeuroDevelopmental Consultation for children or adults with behavioral, learning, or developmental differences, strokes, brain injuries, and trauma will take about 3 hours. In some rare cases we work up to 4 hours and will discuss this before the assessment. During this time, you will: Share your history and discuss

Rages have many sources. The most basic neurologically induced rage is limbic rage.  This is a neurological problem that is often ignored or under diagnosed in children, being attributed by many to bad behavior and reduced to the label ‘tantrums’. Limbic rage is different than anger.  Anger may also be represented by an outburst, but

“I have recently been feeling that none of the alternative interventions are very successful – neurofeedback, NeuroDevelopmental Movement® diet, and biomedical approaches.  Nothing seems to work for my child.” Response: I really do hear the pain of trying to make these difficult decisions about how to help your child and what to do next. NeuroDevelopmental Movement®

Bette Lamont News of the day:  A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say. The new technology might one day help people unable to talk due to neurological disorders regain the ability to communicate through a brain-computer interface. Isn’t

Neurodevelopment Interrupted: Signs And Symptoms Functional neurology results from the completion of the developmental sequence. If there is any interruption, injury, or disruption to the developmental sequence, a functional deficit will result. For some individuals, it creates a small impact on their lives. However, the majority of serious emotional, behavioral, and academic concerns have a

As our schools aim an academic curriculum towards younger and younger ages, I want to look at play. I’m indebted to the work of Darcia Narvaez for these insights. Play only occurs when we are safe, secure, and feeling good, not bullied, judged, graded, or isolated. Play increases metabolism in the neocortex and is significant