Developmental Delays

What Is Metabolic Psychiatry? Metabolic psychiatry is an emerging field that explores the connection between blood-sugar dysregulation and mood disorders, behavioral challenges, mental health challenges and neurodevelopmental challenges. Research shows (see Sources & References, below) that correcting blood-sugar imbalances can ... Read More

Understanding how a child's brain develops is important for creating effective educational and therapeutic interventions for children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as: Autism ADHD Dyslexia Cerebral palsy Sensory Processing Disorder Learning disabilities Dyspraxia and apraxia Epilepsy/seizures The process is complex ... Read More

Not Just for Autism Therapy is a critical piece of healing a child with autism, and we have created an autism therapy checklist to help you out. Please note therapies listed in this checklist may also be helpful for children ... Read More

Many parents report spontaneous improvement in the complexity of expressive language in their children after they took choline that was recommended to improve motor planning. What Is Choline? Choline is essential for brain development. In 1998 the National Academy of ... Read More

Nika Hamblin relates her personal story of dealing with undiagnosed Lyme disease in this post. A Long Time to Get Proper Diagnosis Many years ago, my husband and I were living in southern Germany. I became very ill with what ... Read More

In this blog post, Patricia Lemer MEd LPC explains what learning-related vision problems are and how to correct them. An estimated 25% of school-age children have learning-related vision problems. Students can have difficulties in any of a number of areas ... Read More

In this blog post, nutritionist Kelly Dorfman explains how certain mitochondria-boosting supplements can help with hyptonia. Hypotonia Common in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders Many children with developmental delays have low muscle tone, or hypotonia, because external factors that impact the ... Read More

Difficult behaviors can potentially be changed by improving vision, but most people don’t know that vision affects behavior, attention, learning and processing. They should, however, because the brains of children with autism, ADD/ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder and learning disabilities prevent ... Read More

I am a mom of two boys with developmental delays. In 2009, at age three and a half, Patrick was diagnosed by a developmental pediatrician with Autism Spectrum Disorder. At that time, he had below-average language skills, struggled to play ... Read More

My sons have healed from Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), acid reflux, asthma and eczema. I used to wonder a long time ago if these issues were related to each other and to their developmental delays, anxiety, failure to thrive and ... Read More

I have two daughters ages 13 and 10. My second daughter, Terrie*, has many labels including PDD-NOS (which is now an autism spectrum disorder), hypotonia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD). She has come a long way in ... Read More