ND Tip of the Month:   

 

How much time does it take to see your child reach his/her true level of functioning that will allow them to perform academically up to their grade level? How much time does it take to reduce the quirky or puzzling behaviors, or to see them become able to organize themselves enough to start and complete a project, a subject or a class without being distracted, confused, troubled or struggling? How much time will it be before they can keep track of things, or stop the emotional melt-downs, or begin to behave more their age?

 

How much time? If we are looking for the number of hours, days, weeks, or months, it will all depend on the developmental status of the child or individual and where we see their standing in the results on our neurodevelopmental profile and the placement on academic tests.

 

The typical length of  time spent "on program" are from eight to twenty four months.  Now, let's assume your child is 10 years old when they begin an ND program. You, as a parent, can spend two years (24 months) with your child on program or less. You work five days a week, twice a day with them to get the lower levels of their brain organized, getting their auditory and visual processing up to grade level and any dominance issues resolved as you are guided by the neuro-educational specialist.  As you go through the time and activities, you see your child gaining the ability to retain information. They suddenly find a coordination within their body to execute tasks and skills that before had escaped them. Their impulsive or over-emotional behavior become part of their past, not their future. They are finally getting their math facts! Or perhaps you catch them reading when before they would rather have done a chore than read anything. By age 12 you see your child as happy, better adjusted to life and its circumstances and they have abilities you thought would be impossible for them. Their confidence levels are up and you see them entering into academic, competitive and social situations never before thought possible.  By age 12 this child is functioning up to their capacity.  They have approximately 70 or 80 years ahead of them in which they can fulfill their true destiny. 

Is that a good trade off in terms of time?  Trading two years or less of putting things in order so they can function with neuro-efficiency for the rest of their life, for seventy or eighty years. Is that enough time to make a better life?  Do you believe your child's life improvement is worth your time?  Many former students, as adults, report they are so grateful their parents were there to help them, because they remember the struggle and now it's not there. Now, they are free.