If your child or a child you know has been diagnosed with
cerebral palsy, you have probably already heard some of the
standard advice from doctors and therapists. Cerebral palsy,
which results from damage to parts of the brain in charge of
motor control, has been treated by therapists the same way for
decades. Therapists tend to work with limbs attempting to get
better function. They also work with bracing strategies to help
the child become more mobile. This would all make perfect sense
if Cerebral Palsy were a disease that attacked the limbs, but it
is not. Cerebral Palsy is a problem caused by something that has
happened to the brain, not the arms and legs. The full
understanding of this is what makes the NACD approach different.
NACD evaluates all children using a neurodevelopmental
assessment tool that tells us how the child is functioning in
areas of tactile processing, auditory and visual processing,
language, manual competency and mobility. Using the results of
the assessment, the NACD staff generates