brain injury: a program for what comes next
If you have a brain-injured child, you know the challenges ahead are daunting, and you have probably met the pessimism of the medical community. NACD has been designing individualized home programs for brain-injured children and adults since 1979, built around one question: what is the next developmental step, and how do we get there?
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If you have a brain-injured child or are working with a brain-injured child, then you are aware that the challenges ahead are daunting. You are also aware that the medical community tends to be very pessimistic about the future. Standard therapies may seem insufficient and too fragmented to make a significant improvement.
NACD can help. Our approach is based on performing a neurodevelopmental assessment that gives information regarding your child’s function in all key areas. Based on the results of this detailed assessment, an individualized NACD program is designed to work on achieving the next developmental step in each of those areas.
The assessment maps your child’s function across:
- Auditory processing
- Visual processing
- Tactile processing
- Tonal processing
- Manual competence
- Mobility
- Language
- Academic functioning
The programs are designed to be very efficient and very relevant to your specific child’s needs. Using typical development as the guide, the NACD program seeks to train the brain to move your child forward through each developmental step, drawing on a toolbox of more than 1,000 techniques.
A program that keeps up with your child
In order to keep up with your child’s changing status, NACD programs are “works in progress,” constantly being assessed and updated. The brain your child has today is not the brain they will have in three months, and the program moves with them.
Although NACD’s approaches are innovative, they are not static. With an “if it works, we’ll incorporate it” attitude, NACD actively explores new methods to help children. Outcomes are the criteria we use to assess which methods are utilized.
You are the expert on your child. We give you everything we have.
NACD views parents as experts on their own children. Throughout this process, parents are trained and supported, and the exchange runs both ways.
What NACD gives you
- All of the knowledge that NACD has to offer, taught to you step by step
- Training in how to implement every activity in your child’s program
- Staff assigned to you, available to answer your questions at any time
- A program designed for your child and updated as they change
What you give NACD
- Crucial daily observation nobody else can provide
- Information that helps us assess and fine-tune your child’s program
- The unparalleled commitment of a parent to their child
- The daily implementation that makes the volume of input possible
NACD is interested in outcomes and futures. NACD is proud of its record of helping parents help their children progress, and working hand in hand with families to create a better future for their children.
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