Developmental Delay: Is There A Fix Available From Developmental Service Providers?

None of the treatment services generally available for children with developmental issues have success at addressing the voids in their movement through the developmental stages. Most treatment services focus on teaching as many skills as possible to someone who will be an adult with those developmental issues.

Teaching the un-teachable child

Most treatment services assume that children with developmental issues will always have those developmental issues. So, they have stopped hoping that the movement through the developmental milestones can be fixed. They have stopped searching for ways to address the voids in their movement through the developmental stages.

Instead, they have settled for teaching the un-teachable child as their paradigm. They select a series of skills that they think an adult with developmental issues will need. They struggle for weeks or months or years to teach those skills to their un-teachable students. Of course, the workers in these treatment services are very respectful of the special children with whom they work. They just assume these children will never be able to lose their symptoms.

It is in the diagnosis

There is an attitude that there is no cure built into the diagnostic process and even in the definitions of all of the individual issue diagnoses. Everyone involved thinks that this present-tense statement also includes the future as well. There is no cure is thought to also mean that there will never be a cure.

This presents an interesting delima. If someone found a cure, it could not be proved. The definition (for example) of LD includes an item that there is no cure (with the un-written understanding that there will never be a cure). If researchers try to use a pre and post diagnosis testing in their research, the post-test (diagnosis) would indicate that the test subject continues with that developmental issue, because the subject obtained that diagnosis in the pre-test. Depending on the treatment, the research could certainly show that the symptoms have changed (maybe even gone away), but the diagnostic process does not include the possibility of cure.

If a child has one of these developmental issues, and receives a diagnosis for that problem, the child will continue with that diagnosis even if the child loses all of the symptoms of that diagnosis. Even when a child stops having that problem, the diagnosis continues. That is an interesting situation. Investigation to prove that the cure has been found cannot prove it, because the definition precludes that possibility.

So, what can you expect?

Even if the cure was discovered today, it would be many years before there is enough research to overcome the definitions, diagnostic specifications, and the diagnostic prejudice in existence today. This frame-of-reference that there is no cure is so pervasive that little effort is being spent on searching for that cure or expecting a cure to come soon. Parents should not expect the cure to be announced before their own child has children with developmental issues (don't expect it for decades).

No medical, psychological, or educational service provider has available, or will send you to, a service that offers a cure. And, the treatment services they send you to will have the attitude that they are teaching an un-teachable child. Parents should not expect the mainstream medical, psychological, or educational services to provide a cure. They have no experience in that possibility.

If parents want to find anything close to a cure for their children with developmental issues, they should not look for that in the mainstream treatment services. It is simply not there. They have to look at alternative services.

If parents want their child to surpass their developmental issues, they should search for services which work with the movement through the developmental milestones. Our program unlocks the client's unexpressed ability for maturation. And, we get children to address the voids in their movement through the developmental stages.