Bette Lamont

Attachment, Mothers, and Early Developmental Movement

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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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Stress in Daycare

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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

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Comments on Masking

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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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Neurological Integration for All Children, and…What About Autism?

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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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Are Unborn Babies Aware?

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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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