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NACD’s critically acclaimed app for treating apraxia has been re-released

by NACDAdmin on August 3, 2022 with No Comments

The National Association for Child Development announces the re-release of their popular NACD Home Speech Therapist’s Speech Therapy for Apraxia app, which has been a top medical app across the globe. The app is available on the Apple store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nacd-speech-apraxia/id1625372283 Ogden, Utah July 30, 2022 The National Association for Child Development, an innovator in all aspects of child development … Read More

Our Journey With NACD

by NACDAdmin on January 25, 2021 with No Comments

by Captain Carol Benbrook I will never forget the feeling I had the day when Jack was labelled as autistic, he was five years old and had received a heavy educational input from myself and my supportive family with reading, math and general learning. My husband and I had left our jobs to take our son to “the best” child … Read More

Ben – PDD-NOS (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

by NACDAdmin on April 24, 2017 with No Comments

A Testimonial About a Family Helping Each Child Reach Their Full Potential When our son was about four, we took him for a consultation with a well-known pediatric neurologist. Because Ben used just a few words, made little eye contact and showed little interest in other children, the diagnosis of Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) was no surprise, yet … Read More

Language Acquisition in Children with Down Syndrome: The significance of auditory function and the developmental costs of teaching signing or “Total Communication”

by NACD International on June 17, 1999 with No Comments

by Robert J. Doman Jr. In order to determine appropriate treatment approaches for children with Down Syndrome (DS), one must first, look at “normal” development, and then explore how and why the DS population differs. When considering language acquisition we encounter historic problems that are not dissimilar from those of any of our special needs populations. The primary problem … Read More

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