The current thinking for these developmental concerns is that there is no cure, you could grow out of some of the symptoms over time, but you might need to take these medications that are prescribed. And, you might need to take the medications for your whole life.



Developmental concerns are defined as some combination of these behaviors:

* A lack of focus and concentration

* Clumsiness

* Inability to do some task for more than a few seconds

* Inability to sit and wait

* Inability for follow instructions

* Inability to connect with the context

* Impulsivity

* Extreme sensitivity to too much visual, auditory, kinesthetic stimuli

* Poor self management

* Poor self confidence

* Poor athletic performance

* Poor musical ability

* Poor academic capability

* Poor speech skills

* Poor emotional performance

* Poor social skill ability

The current diagnostic process for developmental concerns involves recognizing which of these characteristics a child displays. But, what if none of these specific characteristics is really important with respect to a resolution for the child? What if the resolution is something really unsophisticated 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 concerns. My experience is that between 70% and 80% lose all of their developmental concerns 'symptoms' by following a precise exercise program and cleaning up their environment. I'll tell you more about this later.

Discoveries brought forward by research in the last few years are leading to new paradigms in many professions. In many cases, a multidisciplinary approach is bringing forward new insights because of the separate frames-of-reference from those multiple disciplines. Many people working together from different fields are sharing thoughts and learning from each other. These shared thoughts are leading to dramatic improvements in understanding for all involved.

However, in the areas of developmental concerns, 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 paradigms, little advancement is being made. There does not seem to be any major advancement because it seems that everyone is sticking within their own paradigms and rejecting all other paradigms. Advancements all seem to be in how to provide more accurate descriptions. No one seems to be bringing out anything important 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 identifying 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). No one is 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 paradigms, so it was not something he could recognize. I visited this university in search of graduate students who need research projects for their doctoral studies. Their paradigms are so strong, that no one from that university wanted to explore my techniques, even though I have consistent results with developmental problems.

The same is true for pediatricians, developmental psychologists, and special ed 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 students, moms & dads, and teachers cope with the other children who have these developmental problems.

Who will listen when we talk about a program you can do in school for a few minutes per day, and the developmental delay symptoms will be gone in 6 - 12 months? This is not a match for the current paradigms, so the 'professionals' will not study it or prescribe it. For them, this does not fit their current paradigms, so it cannot exist.

Well, there is hope and the breakthroughs are not coming out of the standard neurological, physical, or and pharmaceutical approaches to developmental problems. The breakthroughs are coming from common sense and concepts that were common before the Industrial Revolution. The breakthroughs are not neurological, physical, or and pharmaceutical. They are cultural.