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What if the current neurological, physical, and medical approaches to developmental difficulty are all off base? What if there was a cultural fix to these problems that you could do in the community and all the symptoms would be gone naturally, in a few months? The standard idea for these developmental difficulties is that there is no cure, you might grow out of some of the symptoms over time, but you really need to take these drugs that are prescribed. And, you might need to take the drugs for your whole life. Developmental difficulties show up as some combination of these conditions: * A lack of attention and concentration * Awkwardness * Inability to do some task for longer than a few seconds * Inability to sit still * Inability for understand directions * Inability to connect with the environment * Impulsivity * Hyper sensitivity to various forms of light, sound, or touch * Poor self management * Poor self esteem * Poor athletic ability * Poor musical development * Poor academic development * Poor speech ability * Poor emotional performance * Poor social skill ability The current diagnostic process for developmental difficulties involves recognizing which of these characteristics a child displays. But, what if none of these specific characteristics is really important with respect to a fix for the child? What if the fix is something really uncomplicated and no one has been paying attention to it? In the last few years, I have worked with more than three hundred children who have developmental difficulties. My experience is that between 70% and 80% lose all of their developmental difficulties 'symptoms' by following a precise exercise program and cleaning up their environment. More about this later. Discoveries developed through research in the last few years are leading to new approaches in many fields. In many situations, a multidisciplinary approach is leading to new concepts because of the separate frames-of-reference from those multiple disciplines. Many professionals working together from different backgrounds are sharing ideas and learning from each other. These shared ideas are leading to dramatic improvements in understanding for all involved. However, in the areas of developmental difficulties, many disciplines are looking at the problem, but few are sharing what they are discovering in a multidisciplinary approach. Because they are maintaining their own concepts, little advancement is being made. There does not appear to be any major advancement because it seems that everyone is sticking within their own concepts and rejecting all other concepts. Advancements all seem to be in how to get more detailed diagnoses. No one seems to be discovering anything significant in the areas of treatment or prevention. I recently visited a university and talked with the director of the psychology department. This department of this university was focusing on Autism and Asperger's (a high functioning form of PDD). Their educational and their research efforts were focused on recognizing the minute and precise symptom differences between High Functioning Autism and Asperger's. The official paradigm for these disorders is that there is no cure (and there never will be). They are not looking for a cure. They are only focusing on how to get better at the diagnosis of these conditions. When I told this university psychology department director of my own personal experiences of working with hundreds of children with these conditions who lost their symptoms, he explained that there is no way to achieve symptom reduction and elimination. My experience did not fit his approaches, so it was not something he could recognize. I approached this university in search of graduate students who need research projects for their doctoral studies. Their approaches are so strong, that no one from that university wanted to explore my techniques, even though I have predictable results with developmental difficulty. The same is true for neurologists, developmental psychologists, and classroom teachers. They think there is no way to fix these conditions and so they concentrate on precisely identifying these conditions. Most efforts for treatment are designed to help children, parents, and teachers cope with the other children who have these developmental difficulty. Who will listen when we talk about a regimen you can do in school for a few minutes per day, and the developmental delay symptoms will be gone in six to twelve months? This is not a match for the current approaches, so the 'professionals' will not study it or tell anyone about it. For them, this does not fit their current approaches, so it cannot be possible. Well, there is hope and the fixes are not coming out of the current neurological, physical, or and pharmaceutical approaches to developmental difficulty. The fixes are coming out of common sense and concepts that were common before the Industrial Revolution. The fixes are not neurological, physical, or and pharmaceutical. They are cultural.
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Rodger Bailey, MS, has degrees in Anthropology and Educational Counseling. He provides Developmental Discovery System™ consulting for families, which unlocks the natural predisposition for maturing. Checkout his free Developmental Checklist and his Blog.
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