Asperger's And Dyslexia: What Are These Developmental Problems?

Developmental Disability includes Autism, Asperger's, Pervasive Developmental Disorder and other diagnoses. Developmental Delay includes ADD, LD, Dyslexia, and more. Then there is Global Developmental Disorder and Auditory Processing Disorder, and I don't know where they fit in the grand scheme of diagnostic labels, but I know they are a developmental issue.

I have been working with children with developmental issues for a few years. I use the terms developmental issues to encompass everything from Developmental Disability to Developmental Delay, and even more. In our consulting program we consider them all fundamentally the same. They differ only by degrees. We have developed protocols which work with all of the developmental issues. Our protocol develops the child’s inborn knack for becoming mature.

How big is the problem?

All of these developmental issues add up to about 28 million children in the USA. The Census Bureau calculates there a total of 85 million children in the USA. The APA (American Pediatric Association) estimates that one in every six children have a diagnosis for some developmental issue (16.7%). The different associations for all of the individual diagnostic labels of developmental issues all agree when they tell us that about half of the children with these problems obtain a diagnosis for their problem (for a total of 33%). And, one third of 85 million is 28 million children.

That means that one third of all the children in every class have some degree of developmental issue. Maybe it shows up as a lack of ability to focus or control impulses. Maybe it shows up as a lack of ability to learn arithmetic. Maybe it shows up as a lack of coordination. Maybe it is so intensive, the children never learn to speak. Maybe it is mild and only an inconvenience to the child and the parents.

In whatever level of intensity, developmental issues seem to be growing in percentages. We are obviously getting more precise with our testing. And, we are obviously advanced as a country so that we offer those diagnostic services to more children who otherwise could not afford it. But, I do not think this is the reason we have 33% of our children with developmental issues.

When I was a child in school, in the 50s, I do not remember 33% of the children having these types of issues in my neighborhood. I remember that maybe 5% to 10% might have had these kinds of issues, but certainly not 33%.

What is a developmental issue?

Most simply, it is some interruption in the developmental process. All living things move through a life cycle. Much of the initial phases of that life cycle are spent in maturing. From inception to maturity, all living things move through a series of milestones. For us humans, we call them our developmental milestones.

For children with developmental issues, they do not move through their steps appropriately. They get blocked at some of the steps. They miss some steps. So, many of the early learning processes needed for appropriate maturity, are skipped. And, in some cases a child is held in a stage and does not move forward on to the next developmental stage.

I think that all of the different diagnostic labels are related to some simple factors. In which developmental steps did the child get blocked or which steps did the child miss? How intense is the ‘stuckness?’ And, how many steps did the child miss?

What can be done about it?

All of the different diagnostic label associations in the field of developmental issues are clearly in unison when they say that the 1) developmental process is stuck and that 2) there is no cure.

Clinicians in this field do not know what to do to solve developmental issues. Nothing that they try involves the developmental process. For decades academics have tried everything they can think of to do and nothing works.

After all these frustrating years, they have finally agreed with each other that there is no cure. And, now it is officially agreed. All of the diagnostic associations and all of the committees creating the diagnostic definitions have agreed that there is no cure. Now, they spend all of their research dollars on finding causes instead of creating fixes for 28 million children with these developmental issues.

They have explored many things, but they have not explored everything.

With our method your children round out the voids in their developmental progress. Our protocol develops the child’s inborn knack for becoming mature.

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