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A Sense of Community: Impacting Children in Davenport

by NACDAdmin on November 15, 2018 with No Comments

by Sara Erling As many of you know, NACD is all about family. We encourage and empower parents to work with their children. We encourage and empower siblings to help siblings. We also encourage families working together to change mindsets about what truly is possible with our children, regardless of labels they may have received. I am so thankful to … Read More

$NACD Math Program$

NACD Math Program

by NACDAdmin on October 16, 2018 with No Comments

Now exclusively available for NACD families Free with your NACD membership NACD Math was designed not only to teach children how to do math, but also to help them learn that math is easy, that they are good at math, and to enjoy it. NACD Math is now made available online for our NACD clients through the NACD Family … Read More

NACD International Outreach

by NACDAdmin on October 16, 2018 with No Comments

This past month one of our staff, Staci Sargent, conducted a teacher training program for 120 teachers in Nigeria. The inservice was to help teachers improve outcomes and to design standards of excellence for students. This inservice provided Staci with the opportunity to share many of our foundational NACD concepts, such as the application of principles to trigger neuroplasticity and … Read More

News from NACD Romania: A Message for Us All

by NACDAdmin on October 16, 2018 with No Comments

by Bob Doman At the end of September in Brasov, Romania, one of our parents, Endre Csato, organized the second of his annual conferences, Galeria Terapiilor. The conference was for Romanian families who have children with disabilities and professionals involved in providing services to these children. I was honored to present the keynote speech via Skype last year. This year … Read More

What Were Your Kids Doing Last Saturday?

by NACDAdmin on September 12, 2018 with No Comments

by Bob Doman Meet Leia Pope, daughter of Senghor and Claribel Pope and sister to Elaina and Camila. This past Saturday eleven-year-old Leia, one of our NACD homeschool kids from Georgia, probably did something none of your kids did—she flew. While most of her peers around the country had their noses stuck in their phones and iPads, playing video games, … Read More

Danielle, Super Reader

by NACDAdmin on July 9, 2018 with No Comments

by Sunette Payne One of the aspects that I love about working with NACD is meeting and working with so many amazing families. Being a “program-doing-mom” in this role, has also added many other unexpected benefits, some of which would be, being inspired by, challenged by and motivated by our wonderful parents and their children. We really do have the … Read More

Getting Unstuck – Changing the Picture for Your Child

by NACDAdmin on May 8, 2018 with No Comments

Implications on everything from what your child will eat to putting down a toilet seat by Bob Doman Developmentally, behaviorally and educationally children tend to get stuck. The younger the child, the lower the child’s processing or the slower the child’s development, the easier it is for them to get stuck. To understand why these children tend to get … Read More

The Importance of Language

by NACDAdmin on April 2, 2018 with No Comments

by Ellen Doman Decades ago, I worked with a mental health service that is called “wraparound.” It provides Mobile Therapists and Behavior Specialists in family homes to work directly with children and their parents when the children are believed to be high risk for placement in residential treatment programs. I had the great opportunity of working with a very … Read More

The Sweet Spot: Optimizing Education & Developmental Intervention

by NACDAdmin on February 6, 2018 with No Comments

by Bob Doman As a kid I played a lot of sports, and there was a term, “The Sweet Spot,” which was a bit of a mystery until I started hitting it. Since that time “The Sweet Spot” has come to be used in many situations; but in general, as it is applied, it means, “When a combination of factors … Read More

Science Corner Vol. 3 – The Sleep Advantage of Homeschooling: Scientifically Verified

by NACDAdmin on June 16, 2017 with No Comments

It might not be that shocking to find homeschoolers get more sleep than their public school peers, but a new study which featured 2,600 adolescents around the nation found homeschoolers get on average 90 minutes more sleep per night! Just to put that into perspective, 90 minutes a night over the course of a 5-day school week equates to 1 entire … Read More

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