We Search for Solutions to Developmental Problems
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Developmental Problems:
Why are there no cures for childhood developmental problems? With all of our modern science, what could be the reason for so many children having these problems, and why has no one has developed a cure for them?
Is it possible that it is a frame-of-reference or paradigm problem with our scientists/researchers and our medical/psychological providers? Is it possible that they are looking in the wrong direction for solutions and doing the wrong things to get our children back on track?
What Do We Know About Developmental Problems?
What do we know about these problems in children? There are many different diagnoses and many different symptoms. Many children get multiple diagnoses (called co-morbid diagnoses). There is nothing precise about the diagnosis and there is certainly nothing precise about the treatments.
If you have a child with a developmental problem (whatever the diagnosis), your treatment and educational professionals are probably trying to prepare your child to be an adult with those problems. In most cases, they do not think there is a solution for your child.
What if all the different diagnoses and all the different symptoms represent one specific problem (rather than dozens of different ones)? Would you want to know what that problem was? Would you be interested in doing what you could to get your child back on track?
Developmental solutions:
What if the problem is simply that the developmental process is stuck or sluggish and it only needs to be re-engaged?
Well, that is a simple concept. But the reality is that we have numerous developmental problems in children (everything from autism to auditory processing disorder to hyperactivity and dyslexia and even more . .) and no one seems to be re-engaging their stuck developmental process and getting them back on track.
In fact, none of the medical or psychological interventions seem to do anything for the developmental process. The interventions are all designed to reduce symptoms and not deal with the core difficulty.
What is blocking your child’s developmental process?
This is what really needs to be addressed. If you can find what has been blocking your child’s developmental process, and you can remove it, then your child’s developmental process will re-engage and your child can start to catch up with peers.
I know this seems too direct and too simple to be possible. But we have been doing this in our office for years. We test the child, determine what is blocking the child’s developmental process, coach the family on what to do to remove that blockage, and the child’s developmental process starts moving forward again. It happens naturally.
The developmental process is a natural process. It works great until something interferes with it. But, we are not accustomed to think this way about the developmental process or developmental problems. We see difficulties and we think that our child is sick and needs a doctor.
But, the doctor does not know anything about what blocks the developmental process. So, the doctor looks in his book and it says give the child medications to reduce those behaviors. Those meds do not address the stuck developmental process. From our experience, those meds become another one of the factors which makes blockages of the child’s developmental process even more firmly in control.
