NeuroDevelopmental Movement® is both an old and a growing therapeutic model for children or adults with gaps in their development or with any form of injury to the central nervous system. Training in NeuroDevelopmental Movement® is an in-depth extended program. We offer a certification training from which all certified consultants of NDM® graduate after 16 […]
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I strongly recommend looking into NeuroDevelopmental Movement® (NDM®). Bette Lamont is an excellent consultant. We adopted our daughter at four and a half from the Ukraine. She spent her life in an orphanage and had significant delays due to her environment, including all of the ones listed in your post. We tried all types of
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In my clinical practice, my experience and belief is that every child has a path to wellness that is unique. In my heart, I ALSO believe that every child and adult must be loved just as they are now, without expectation of change. I am always working to find the way to balance these two
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“Katherine was adopted from China when she was 18 months old. She qualified for speech therapy, so we immediately went to work teaching her both sign and verbal language. Despite the therapy, Katherine did not speak more than one-word utterances until she was close to 4 years old. She’s now 11, and after beginning our
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I want to answer your question, but to do so I have to add a bit of history, so bear with me. NeuroDevelopmental Movement® (which has shown up under a few different names over time) was the first approach to EVER analyze and create programs that assessed the entire developmental sequence, including reflexes, sensation, mobility,
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As I write this, it is June and time to go barefoot. Here you can read what Kacie Flegal, DC says about the importance of going barefoot from an article in Natural Child Magazine. And as she points out going barefoot helps not just the child’s brain, but our own. To read the whole article
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by Bette Lamont NeuroDevelopmental Movement® (NDM®) is an approach to behavioral, academic, psychological, social, and physical challenges of both children and adults with any form or degree of injury or delay in the central nervous system. NDM is fully informed by and takes all of its powerful tools for change from the model for natural
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by Jasmine Pasch Children are “full of it”. From the moment they are born, they are skilled communicators, competent beings who leave us in no doubt that we need a lot of energy to keep up with them as they grow and develop. They just don’t stop moving: wriggling and squirming when tiny, reaching and
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Thank you to Meg who has written this lovely statement about the results (so far) of her work with her daughter doing NDM®. I hope it inspires those of you who may be on the fence about whether we can make a difference even in a teen. Meg, I deeply appreciate you sharing this. Before
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by Bette Lamont Trauma, its sources and treatment, have become more visible and studied over the last ten years. We have learned that we can come to understand past trauma, to make peace with it, and to learn coping techniques for the emotional triggers that we have developed because of it. And we have learned
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