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When I was in middle school, I was very much a loner.  I found it very hard to make and keep friends.  My home life was very stressful because my little brother drove me crazy.  He is three years younger than me and has learning disabilities and he used to irritate me a lot!  In school, it seemed like the harder I tried, the more I failed.  I came home with tons of homework everyday and my mother used to have to stand over me to make sure I kept working – my mind kept wandering.  I had absolutely zero confidence in myself!  I was taking 15mg of Ritalin a day to help me focus in school.
The summer before my freshmen year in high school, my life began to change.  I went to see Jan (at Little Giant Steps - a neuro-education specialist) and she put my brother and I on a Neurodevelopmental Program (we called it “therapy”).  Most of the therapy I had to do was strange and sometimes boring but I was willing to stick to it and do it every day because I wanted to be smarter. 
When school started in the fall, I could see that the therapy we did over the summer was already making some changes in my life so I became even more determined to stick with the program, which included wearing an eye patch to school.  This was the hardest part of the program for me but I am so glad I stuck with it.  After wearing an eye patch my entire freshman year in high school, I was able to stop the Ritalin at the beginning of my sophomore year.
            I am now 20 years old and a sophomore in college.  I can listen to lectures in my college classes and pay attention and understand without any problems.  I have wonderful friends that love being around me and I love being around them.  Before I started Jan’s program, I wasn’t very coordinated, but now I love playing sports and I’m good at them. 
I have so much to be thankful for because of the confidence and pride I have in knowing that I really can do anything I set my mind to!  I cannot talk enough about Jan’s program.  I haven’t even talked about the WONDERFUL young man my brother has turned out to be and the progress that he has made.  He had to wear an earplug and a lot of other stuff that I didn’t have to do.  He was even worse at sports than I was and now he’s on his high school football team!  My brother and I are now best friends.  We have a special bond that we enjoy as a direct result of the Neurodevelopmental Approach.                                                                                                                                     A.T.Garland, TX 

I’m a neuro-educational specialist with LGS. Why do I have such a passion for what I do? I’m so glad you asked!I had a learning disabled son. We tried a different program each year looking for an answer. We found our answer with a neuro-education program. He was almost 14 years of age when we “tried” this program. His life was completely changed in just a little over a year. It changed his life. It changed our family’s life. What were his labels? Well, he was labeled ADHD and Dyslexic. But those were only generic labels. Practically speaking he couldn’t read; he had difficulty speaking; he was very uncoordinated; he was very hyper with a very high pain tolerance among other things. Six weeks on program saw him speaking in perfect sentences. That was enough to keep us going for a long time. By the end of the program he was on grade level in all his subjects and had caught up with years of being behind. He took himself off sugar during this time and went from being very overweight to a very thin, muscular, handsome teenager who could read, talk, and play any sport he wanted. Anyone who met him after the fact had no idea of the transformation that had taken place. I’ve been on the other side of the desk. I’ve shed the tears. Now I have answers for those, who like me, are looking for a way to help their labeled and struggling children.

It has been a long time since I’ve head such a report from a mother. Her son went from hating to read to ~ well…. I’ll repeat what she told me:

“There have been days when my son and I have come into conflict over his ND program. He gets tired of doing the activities. Quite frankly, I get tired too, somedays! However, I must admit we are noticing some very positive results. Lately, he’s gotten interested in airplanes. I have noticed once in a while I’d catch him reading about airplanes – on his own! I thought I’d get him a really neat book on airplanes for his upcoming birthday.

We celebrated his birthday with guests over for dinner. Suddenly he was missing from the celebration. I started looking for him. I found him in his room with the door closed. I discovered him browsing his new airplane book! Reminding him of our guests, he was told to join his friends and family, as it was his party and he needed to be in attendance. There would be some time later to check out his new book.

We had a great time and it was very late when company left. We all headed for bed. As I was making my final rounds checking to see all doors were locked, I noticed a stream of light underneath his door. I opened it and here he was reading! I told him it was late, to turn out the light and go to sleep. Then I went to my room exhausted. I had just laid down when I realized I’d not turned off the coffee pot. Quietly I returned to the kitchen to take care of this final chore and as I passed his room – there was a noise. I looked and saw a diffused glow from under his door! Silently I opened his door and there was a tent fashioned out of his sheet. The glow was from a flash light. I tip toed over to his bed and slowly lifted the corner of the sheet to see what he was doing. Here he sat with his legs crossed, hiding so he could read! Amazed at this sight, I never said a word. I replaced the sheet, retraced my steps out of his room and pulled the door to the jam. As I made my way down the hall, tears welled up, because it was then I realized, “He’s reading and loving it…. he’s like a normal kid… curious and seeking information from a book!” I am so grateful we stuck with the neurodevelopmental program. It’s given him access to a world I didn’t know he’d ever experience! Thanks to Jan Bedell and all at Little Giant Steps, we are blessed more than you can imagine!”