Developmental Discovery

Welcome To Our Developmental Disorders Site

We are happy that you have found us. We hope that we have something of interest for you.

Our normal posts in this blog will be our Top-10 ADHD Tweets and our Top-10 Autism Tweets. We will post these on a regular basis. They will list articles, blog posts, videos, and other interesting and helpful information about these developmental disorders. We will look through the current tweets which address these areas of concern and choose those of interest. We will also include our own comments along with each of the tweets we feature.

We will use these Top-10 blog posts to help people find us. We will tweet announcements of these posts to everyone Following us. We will also “reply to” all those who have created the tweets we include in our Top-10s.

We hope you find these Top-10 posts helpful and informative.

Why We Are Here

Our Focus

Our focus is about childhood developmental disorders. This includes Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) generally and autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, High Functioning Autism (HFA) specifically. Our concern also includes Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, Learning Disorder or Learning Difficulty or Learning Disability (LD), Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD or APD), Sensory Integration Dysfunction or Sensory Processing Disorder , and a host of other diagnoses.

What We Are Concerned About

Scientists, Researchers, and Practitioners are all focused on symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments. All of these groups agree that there is no cure for any of these problems. They are continuing to get more precise in identifying the specific symptoms for these diagnoses, but are getting no closer to a cure.

Interventions are all focused on reducing symptoms.
Yet the problem is not directly related to the symptoms.

What Is The Problem?

The problem is that the developmental process is stuck or sluggish and needs to to be re-engaged. That is all.

No one seems to have broken the code on what causes these children’s developmental process to get blocked. When the developmental process gets blocked, these children stop developing appropriately. Instead of developing normally they start having the symptoms, which everyone seems to think is The Problem.

All the symptoms of these children are signals of a problem.
These symptoms are not The Problem.

That seems to be a hard message to understand. And, especially for parents of these children, their teachers, and their care-givers, it is hard to understand that their behaviors (their symptoms) are only symptoms of the problem, because these symptoms are very difficult to deal with.

What Have We Discovered?

In our private practice, we have been working with these children for almost 10 years. We have found that if we we do some testing with the child and some coaching with the parents, most of these children re-engage their developmental process and start to catch up with their peers.

If you want to learn more about what we are doing, and what we have discovered, please click on our Solutions tab at the upper right of this site. I’m putting a broad description of what we have found and what we do and what you can do for your child.