The standard idea for these developmental issues is that there is no cure, you might possibly grow out of some of the symptoms over the years, but you really need to take these medications that are prescribed. And, you might need to take the medications for the rest of your life.



Developmental issues are defined as some combination of these conditions:

* A lack of focus and concentration

* Lacking graceful movement

* Inability to do something for more than a few seconds

* Inability to sit quietly

* Inability for understand directions

* Inability to connect to the context

* Inability to control impulses

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

* Poor self control

* Poor self esteem

* Poor athletic ability

* Poor musical ability

* Poor academic development

* Poor speech ability

* Poor emotional capability

* Poor social skill ability

The current diagnostic process for developmental issues involves identifying how many of these behaviors a child has. But, what if none of these specific behaviors is really important with respect to a patch for the child? What if the patch is something really elementary and no one even thought about paying attention to it?

In the last few years, I have worked with more than 300 children who have developmental issues. My experience is that at least 70% lose all of their developmental issues 'symptoms' by following a rigorous exercise program and cleaning up their environment. More about this later.

Discoveries brought forward by research in the last few years are leading to new ways of thinking in many areas. In many instances, a multidisciplinary approach is leading to new concepts because of the distinct frames-of-reference from those multiple disciplines. Many people 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 issues, 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 obtain more precise labels. 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 concentrating 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 concentrating 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 ways of thinking, so it was not something he could recognize. I visited this university in search of graduate students who need research projects for their graduate studies. Their ways of thinking are so strong, that no one from that university wanted to explore my techniques, even though I have consistent results with developmental delays.

The same is true for neurologists, behavioral psychologists, and special ed teachers. They think there is no way to fix these conditions and so they focus on precisely identifying these conditions. Most efforts for treatment are designed to help students, parents, and teachers deal with the other children who have these developmental delays.

What will happen when we talk about a program you can do in school for a few minutes per day, and the developmental issue symptoms will be gone in 6 - 12 months? This does not fit the current ways of thinking, so the 'professionals' will not review it or tell anyone about it. For them, this does not fit their current ways of thinking, so it cannot exist.

Well, there is hope and the solutions are not coming out of the conventional psychological, behavioral, or medical approaches to developmental delays. The solutions are coming from common sense and concepts that were common before the Industrial Revolution. The solutions are not psychological, behavioral, or medical. They are cultural.