Getting Started with NDM®

NeuroDevelopmental Movement®, AKA Neurological Reorganization, is an assessment and process that allows the NDM® Consultant to understand why our children or adult clients are responding the way they do to social, academic, physical, attentional, and emotional challenges.

Parents and clients who invest in a Functional NeuroDevelopmental Assessment learn how to integrate or reintegrate functions in the brain that may never have been fully developed, or that may have been lost due to injury, disease, or trauma. Traumas that are as recent as a concussion in the last month, or a disability that occurred due to trauma in utero, can be addressed through our in-depth work. 

Delays in development can be caused by restriction of infant movement, orphanage or foster care settings in the first year of life, and poor nutrition in the early months of life, among other factors.

Neurodevelopmental functions that are missing can disrupt behavior and learning and often include:

* an inability to process what one sees, hears, and feels
* difficulty integrating information between the two sides of the brain
* challenges hearing and communicating clearly
* difficulty knowing where one’s body is in space
* difficulty recognizing emotions and responding to others appropriately

Neurodevelopmental functions that are missing can also disrupt social and emotional wellbeing and often include:

* Sensory processing disorders
* Inability to develop the neurological bases for compassion and awareness of the needs of others
* Misperceptions of incoming information leading to anxiety or PTSD type responses

NeuroDevelopmental Movement considers these issues and any issue that disrupts sensory and motor functions at seven levels of the central nervous system, helping our clients get back on a solid path to recovery. If medication would consistently work without side effects, parents and clients might consider the effort put into recovery to be ‘too much’.

NeuroDevelopmental Movement® asks families to assist their family member’s growth for about two years for most recovery programs. Parents whose children have graduated from our programs make statements such as:  “With the changes we have seen, we have zero regrets for the time spent doing NDM®. It has paid off tenfold!” (K.G, full statement on file).

NeuroDevelopmental Movement® is a program designed to be done in the home. It is through the daily intensity, frequency, and duration of the work that we can achieve the kinds of successes that you read about on this website.