Developmental Delays
Can Learn Academy/Toni Hager BS NDS 2004 Updated @2022
Developmental delay, also known as global delays, intellectual delays/challenges, and mentally retarded, comes in various degrees of severity and is a common cause of parental worry. If a child has a visible disability such as CP, Moebius Syndrome, or Down Syndrome the parent is quickly guided into early intervention programs. However, on the other side, if the disability is hidden like the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, or maybe the child experienced undetected ear infections or hasn’t learned to use their vision (not sight) efficiently the child will struggle and far too often parents are told, "He will outgrow it", "He is just a little immature", "He'll catch up” or “.Just give him a lot of love". Parents know in their hearts that “something” isn’t right and the child’s development isn’t going well… that the problem is real.
Developmental delay can have many causes but one of the most common is a slow-developing nervous system. It is important to realize that if the delay of the nervous system occurs early in life it usually impedes the rate of development. This means the gap between such a child and his or her chronological peers will widen with age. For this reason, parents need to act early to provide appropriate programs for their children that can help minimize this gap.
Older children with developmental delay usually have additional problems. They are often the “product” of a system that is quick to give up. They are exposed to limits placed on them that then become the reality even though there were no bases for these limits other than the fact that no one knew what to do. Expectations and dreams are lowered by family and/or schools; emotionally they can become stagnant, unmotivated, or suffer from poor quality of life below their potential.
The important thing to remember is that developmentally delayed individuals can be helped. Their situation is not hopeless and parents can become empowered and enabled to offer effective productive help that can contribute significantly to the quality of life of the delayed child. This means not only the quality of the child's life; but, the quality of life for all the family members as well.
There IS good news!!
HOW? You ask
We offer brain-based training for children and adults with learning/focus difficulties.
A functional evaluation of your child’s sensory system, visual and auditory processing, emotional communication, short-term working memory, and motor areas of fine & gross motor skills will occur. We will also evaluate their language, social behavior, and academic achievement and present all the findings as a developmental profile.
It does not end there.
Upon finalizing our evaluation, we provide you with the results and THEN develop a customized INEP (individualized neurodevelopment-education plan)
We offer TWO GREAT TRAINING options.
1. We can teach YOU, the family, to implement the Can Learn program in-home. I provide bi-weekly phone calls/emails to check progress & answer any questions/concerns you may have. Twice a year, re-evaluations are needed to access your child’s neurodevelopment progress and modify their program.
OR
2. Via Zoom, I oversee your child completing the individualized program three (3) days a week, two (2) sessions. A re-evaluation with program adjustments will be done.
The real tragedy is many individuals are attempting to cope with an unidentified neurological dysfunction that does not need to exist.
Call for a free 30-minute consultation
509-362-3418
Can Learn Christian Academy ©2021 Toni, Hager
PO BOX 6701 Kingman, AZ 86402 509-362-3418
canlearnacademy.org canlearnacademy@gmail.com
return to home
Can Learn Academy/Toni Hager BS NDS 2004 Updated @2022
Developmental delay, also known as global delays, intellectual delays/challenges, and mentally retarded, comes in various degrees of severity and is a common cause of parental worry. If a child has a visible disability such as CP, Moebius Syndrome, or Down Syndrome the parent is quickly guided into early intervention programs. However, on the other side, if the disability is hidden like the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, or maybe the child experienced undetected ear infections or hasn’t learned to use their vision (not sight) efficiently the child will struggle and far too often parents are told, "He will outgrow it", "He is just a little immature", "He'll catch up” or “.Just give him a lot of love". Parents know in their hearts that “something” isn’t right and the child’s development isn’t going well… that the problem is real.
Developmental delay can have many causes but one of the most common is a slow-developing nervous system. It is important to realize that if the delay of the nervous system occurs early in life it usually impedes the rate of development. This means the gap between such a child and his or her chronological peers will widen with age. For this reason, parents need to act early to provide appropriate programs for their children that can help minimize this gap.
Older children with developmental delay usually have additional problems. They are often the “product” of a system that is quick to give up. They are exposed to limits placed on them that then become the reality even though there were no bases for these limits other than the fact that no one knew what to do. Expectations and dreams are lowered by family and/or schools; emotionally they can become stagnant, unmotivated, or suffer from poor quality of life below their potential.
The important thing to remember is that developmentally delayed individuals can be helped. Their situation is not hopeless and parents can become empowered and enabled to offer effective productive help that can contribute significantly to the quality of life of the delayed child. This means not only the quality of the child's life; but, the quality of life for all the family members as well.
There IS good news!!
HOW? You ask
We offer brain-based training for children and adults with learning/focus difficulties.
A functional evaluation of your child’s sensory system, visual and auditory processing, emotional communication, short-term working memory, and motor areas of fine & gross motor skills will occur. We will also evaluate their language, social behavior, and academic achievement and present all the findings as a developmental profile.
It does not end there.
Upon finalizing our evaluation, we provide you with the results and THEN develop a customized INEP (individualized neurodevelopment-education plan)
We offer TWO GREAT TRAINING options.
1. We can teach YOU, the family, to implement the Can Learn program in-home. I provide bi-weekly phone calls/emails to check progress & answer any questions/concerns you may have. Twice a year, re-evaluations are needed to access your child’s neurodevelopment progress and modify their program.
OR
2. Via Zoom, I oversee your child completing the individualized program three (3) days a week, two (2) sessions. A re-evaluation with program adjustments will be done.
The real tragedy is many individuals are attempting to cope with an unidentified neurological dysfunction that does not need to exist.
Call for a free 30-minute consultation
509-362-3418
Can Learn Christian Academy ©2021 Toni, Hager
PO BOX 6701 Kingman, AZ 86402 509-362-3418
canlearnacademy.org canlearnacademy@gmail.com
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