NEW DELHI, INDIA

October 1st, 2005

Robert J. Doman Jr. The Founder and Director of The National Association for Child Development today lectured to leaders of India’s medical community at the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research. Amongst those attending were renowned neurologists, pediatricians and psychiatrists.

The Siktaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research today hosted a lecture presented by Robert J. Doman Jr. the Director of the National Association for Child Development which is based in Ogden, Utah USA. NACD, the National Association for Child Development was established in 1979 and has assisted parents with developmentally challenged children from around the world.

Mr. Doman’s presentation focused on NACD’s neurodevelopmental approach to the amelioration of handicapping conditions in the full range of children suffering from issues ranging from brain injury to autism, Down syndrome, ADD and learning disabilities.

Questions and discussion explored Mr. Doman’s and NACD’s role during the past thirty five years in developing the foundation for the understanding of such major issues as the significance of sensory dysfunction and the importance of specific targeted sensory stimulation to the Debilitating Sensory Addictive Behaviors of children within the Autism spectrum.

Of particular interest was Mr. Doman’s explanation of his research and work involving the imporance and development of auditory and visual sequential processing. Mr. Doman’s work has demonstrated that it is possible to identify an individual’s global neurodevelopmental function and change that function through the application of procedures, which accelerate the development of sequential processing skills. Mr. Doman also introduced NACD’s Project 9 +/- 2 to India during this presentation.

NACD’s Project 9 +/-2 is an international research study, which potentially could be the largest study of its kind ever, attempted. The goal of the study is to identify the processing skills of a significant segment of the world’s population. NACD’s research has indicated that huge segments of the world’s population do not have the processing skills to function at acceptable levels. But, their research and work has demonstrated that these vital processing skills can be substantially changed with specific intervention.

The Project: 9+/- 2 is designed to not only gather sufficient data to clearly demonstrate the need for the development of sequential processing skills but also provide the expertise and tools to raise this vital function.

Mr. Doman announced that NACD has already established an international website at which anyone can ascertain their or their children’s processing skills and participate in the study. www.nacd.org.

The presentation concluded with encouragement from the attendees for Mr. Doman and NACD to continue and expand their participation in India and for joint efforts to bring about greater opportunities for the child of India.