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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Bette Lamont, NeuroDevelopmental Movement® Consultant, trainer and lecturer, Seattle, Washington, USA Attachment, one of the most important components of a healthy child’s experience, is also a topic of great interest in parenting and therapeutic circles. The rising tide of violent behavior amongst our children, including bullying, physical harming of other children, high risk taking behaviors,
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Research cited by Richard Bowlby Jr, in the U.K. in his article Early Stress in Daycare, indicates that since the child’s right hemisphere is growing faster than the left hemisphere until sometime between 30 and 36 months, children who are under that age suffer in childcare. They cannot understand their mother’s absence. The brain is
A healthy vestibular system is one thing that declines with lack of use. I would suggest that anyone who gets motion sickness start with small amounts of vestibular activity, just a couple of seconds, and build up. One of the things you see in the frail elderly is that tendency to feel like they are
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by Bette Lamont Masking, a technique used by NeuroDevelopmental Movement® Consultants, is a safe, simple, and effective means of enhancing oxygen delivery to the brain. If you are a client of NDM® you are at some point going to be trained to do this work. Masking is a process of rebreathing one’s own breath, which
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by Bette Lamont Getting an infant involved in the natural neurodevelopmental sequence early in life is important for ALL infants whether or not we know they have autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders. This helps the brain talk to and organize itself. ALL infants need to go through this process, and the neurodevelopmentally normal child will
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Michael OrlansCo-Founder Co-Director at Evergreen Psychotherapy Center – Attachment Treatment and Training Institute Apr 25, 2015 The old Freudian belief that personality does not develop until ages 2-3 has now been displaced by decades of research in the field of pre-natal psychology. We have found that an unborn child is an aware, reacting human being
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“What role do the dynamics of a family play in a child or adult recovery? Should the entire family participate in the program? In our NeuroDevelopmental Movement® practice, the most common family dynamic we see is that the child who was designated the ‘problem’ starts getting better, fewer rages, less screaming, etc. Sometimes a sibling who
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Your initial Functional Neurodevelopmental Assessment allows us to observe sensory and motor skills at different levels of the central nervous system. We base our conclusions and your program on the following principles: 1.) The brain is a hierarchy with the higher brain dependent on the integrity of lower brain levels for full functioning. If there
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