"Children with significant challenges can be typical, typical children can be exceptional, and exceptional children can change the world."
(Robert J. Doman, Jr, Founder of NACD).

NACD has been at the forefront of developing modalities to address a population of children that are most commonly "written off." We have children that we have brought out of the autistic spectrum, children with Down Syndrome who are academically accelerated, children with severe speech and language issues speaking and conversing with proper articulation, and brain injured children whose parents were told they would not walk... running. As staff members we have a group of children who fall into the "icing on the cake" category. These are typically our clients' siblings who end up being some of the smartest kids, and later adults, on the planet. In looking at the statistics of the siblings on our program, the profiles are all over the place. We have seen children who are in public school, children who are in private schools, children in college preparatory academies, as well as a number of children who are homeschooled. We have siblings once diagnosed or given labels such as ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, accelerated and gifted, disorganized, class clowns, "C" students, etc., etc., etc.... We like to refer to these bright kids as "the easy ones." While we realize that any specific difficulties they may be having may not seem easy to them or to you, to us they are the kids with a small number of developmental pieces that can be addressed in a relatively short amount of time. A so-so student can become a good student, and a good student can become top of his or her class.