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Simply Smarter: Intensity – How to Achieve the Best Results

by NACDAdmin on July 2, 2020 with No Comments

by Bob Doman The Simply Smarter® program is built upon the foundation of neuroplasticity, utilizing the science of targeted input, frequency, intensity, and duration. Targeted The program constantly modifies itself to keep you right at the sweet spot, the spot that is targeted for you to achieve maximum benefit. Frequency To take advantage of neuroplasticity, we need to keep triggering … Read More

My Greatest Discovery – How to Make Everyone Smarter

by NACDAdmin on March 31, 2020 with No Comments

by Bob Doman These COVID-19 Coronavirus times have certainly turned many of our worlds upside down. We now virtually have a world full of homeschoolers; more parents are at home with their children than at any time in the history of the world. Exceptional times and exceptional circumstances can also result in exceptional opportunities. Many of us are rediscovering and … Read More

T.H.E. Targeted Home Education

by NACDAdmin on January 31, 2019 with No Comments

Homeschool Renamed, Re-envisioned, and Given a New Way Forward by Bob Doman I have been an advocate of homeschooling and home-based educational, developmental/therapeutic intervention for close to fifty years. The whole foundation of NACD (The National Association for Child Development) is built on development, health, education, and where needed, therapeutic intervention, all centered and accomplished within the home. Our … Read More

Autism – Stuck Teens

by NACDAdmin on May 11, 2018 with No Comments

A special message for parents of children with autism and others by Bob Doman In a previous post, I talked about getting unstuck and how to help change the picture and the minds of children who have weak auditory processing and who are strong visualizers. This combination is never more of an issue than it is with children on the autism … 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

Manole Family – A “Discovery” Leads to Success with NACD & Simply Smarter

by NACDAdmin on September 22, 2017 with No Comments

Years ago, I saw a TV show on Discovery with an organization from England that transformed “typical” children into geniuses using programs close to what NACD is using. I was fascinated but frustrated because I believed that I would never have an opportunity to follow this type of program in Romania. After I registered my son in an NACD personalized … Read More

Science Corner Vol. 2: Working Memory Training Physically Changes Brain for the Better, fMRI Neuroimaging Study Finds

by NACDAdmin on May 31, 2017 with No Comments

Last summer, a group of researchers  published a study in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience in which they used fMRI technology to show auditory working memory training  (such as the auditory sequential processing activities in Simply Smarter) resulted in physical changes  to the brain. In addition to showing  auditory working memory can be  trained, this research was able to demonstrate such training is … Read More

NACD and ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy)—Very Different Approaches

by NACDAdmin on March 30, 2017 with No Comments

We are sometimes asked how NACD differs from the ABA – Applied Behavior Analysis therapy approach to individuals with Autism. In simplistic terms, the two approaches have profound philosophical differences that impact on the specific practices as well as the understanding of what needs to be changed. NACD approaches any individual as a whole person. We seek to understand all … Read More

Discussion of the Relevant Perception, Structure, and Application of NACD’s Model of Working Memory and Cognition

by NACDAdmin on October 11, 2016 with No Comments

For more than three decades, the National Association for Child Development (NACD) has worked toward a better and more thorough understanding of cognitive function and how neuroplasticity affects that function. The ability of the human brain to change and improve due to neuroplasticity provided the foundation for the development of the NACD approach. NACD has developed a “whole person” perspective … Read More

Perspectives and Remediation for Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder

by NACDAdmin on October 11, 2016 with No Comments

by Bob Doman Understanding and remediating the neurodevelopmental issues of those within the autism spectrum is critical if we are going to provide these children and adults with an opportunity to overcome their issues and to function at higher, “normal,” or even “superior” levels. It is important to understand that most neurodevelopmental issues will not simply go away. Merely teaching … Read More

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