HERE’S THE FULL STORY: [Our daughter] came to us with very little sense of smell, taste, pain, or fear. She had no ability to regulate her emotions and was often violent — slapping, punching, kicking, biting, spitting throughout the day, every day. She had no concept of the position of her body in space, so would constantly bounce her head off of table corners or wipe out on door jams as she tried to go through doorways. She also had significant strabismus in her right eye.
As I mentioned, within a month of starting NeuroDevelopmental Movement® (NDM®), she seemed to feel some pain, stopped eating extremely spicy foods, and no longer loved bleu cheese. She became much more regulated within the first six months. Her senses seemed to swing towards the hyper-sensitive somewhere around nine months into the program (I’d have to check my records to be sure), then re-set towards the middle.
After more than a year, her strabismus “cleared up.” Towards the end of our two years of NDM® she entered a “velcro-baby” stage–at the ripe old age of four years, three months. It lasted about six months, and then resolved.
She’s now pretty confident and comfortable most of the time. She’s still a very intense and strong-willed kid, but rarely defiant or oppositional — just very focused and tenacious. She loves as big as she previously “hated.” She’s also exceptionally coordinated, both fine motor and gross motor-wise. There is some evidence of damage to her left hemisphere, so I’m anticipating that she’ll need some work to address that as she gets older, but otherwise she functions really well.